Regionalism and the Humanities

List of Contributors

Contributors Ginette Aley is assistant professor of early American history at the University of Southern Indiana. Her most recent publication is in Ohio History entitled “A Republic of Farm People: Women, Families, and Market-Minded Agrarianism in Ohio, 1820s–1830s.” She is currently revising her dissertation into a book manuscript under contract with Kent State University Press entitled “Narrating an Early American Borderland: John Tipton and the West of the Early Republic.” Stephen C. Behrendt is George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He has published widely on British Romantic literature, art, and culture, with a special emphasis in recent years on the recovery and reassessment of women writers. He is also the author of several volumes of original poetry, including his most recent volume History. Mark Busby is director of the Center for the Study of the Southwest and the Southwest Regional Humanities Center. He is the Jerome H. And Catherine E. Supple Professor of Southwestern Studies and professor of English at Texas State University–San Marcos. He has authored and edited numerous books on southwestern literature and culture and has written one novel, Fort Benning Blues. His latest book, edited with Terrell Dixon, is John Graves, Writer. 322 contributors Cheryll Glotfelty is associate professor in the Literature and Environment Program of the English Department at the University of Nevada, Reno. She coedited with Harold Fromm The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology and has published widely on western American literature. Barbara Handy-Marchello is associate professor emerita of the History Department at the University of North Dakota. She is author of Women of the Northern Plains: Gender and Settlement on the Homestead Frontier, 1870–1930, which won the Caroline Bancroft History Prize for 2006. She continues her current research on Linda Warfel Slaughter. Wendy J. Katz is associate professor of art history at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and a Fellow of the Center for Great Plains Studies. Her publications include Regionalism and Reform: Art and Class Formation in Antebellum Cincinnati and articles in Winterthur Portfolio, Prospects, American Studies, and Nineteenth-Century Studies. Kurt E. Kinbacher completed his PhD in May 2006 and is a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher in the History Department at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He recently published “Life in the Russian Bottoms: Community Building and Identity Transformation among Germans from Russia in Lincoln, Nebraska, 1876 to 1926” in the Journal of American Ethnic History. Patrick Lee Lucas is assistant professor of interior architecture at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. He holds a PhD in American studies from Michigan State University. He has received numerous grants relating to dissertation work and to the preparation of a manuscript entitled “Athens on the Frontier: Grecian-Style Architecture in the Valley of the West, 1820–1860.” Active in history, American studies, and design organizations, Patrick Lucas has given numerous papers at conferences throughout the United States and abroad. He is the author of “Lexington’s Wolf Wile Department Store: A MidCentury Achievement in Urban Architecture,” which appeared in the Kentucky Review. contributors 323 Timothy R. Mahoney is professor of history at the University of Nebraska –Lincoln. He is the author of Provincial Lives: Middle Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West. He is project administrator of the Plains Humanities Alliance of the Center for Great Plains Studies. Larry W. Moore is an independent writer in Frankfort, Kentucky (which is also home to several Vachel Lindsay cousins). He did graduate study in the history of science and medicine at the University of Kentucky and spent a year abroad studying the life and work of Hermann Hesse, supported by a grant from the German government. He presented a paper on Vachel Lindsay at the 2005 Illinois History Conference . A digital artist as well as published poet, photographer, and translator, he is cofounder of Broadstone Media--a cultural promotion company, publishing books under the Broadstone Books imprint and managing an art gallery among other ventures. Annie Proulx is the author of four novels: Postcards, The Shipping News, Accordion Crimes, and That Old Ace in the Hole. She has won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and a pen/Faulkner award. She lives in Wyoming. Guy Reynolds is professor of English at the University of Nebraska– Lincoln, where he also directs the university’s Cather Project. He is the author, most recently, of Apostles of Modernity: American Writers in the Age of Development...