All Our Stories Are Here: Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature

Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS WILLIAM W. BEVIS is professor emeritus of English at the University of Montana– Missoula; author of Mind of Winter, Ten Tough Trips, Borneo Log, and Shorty Harris, or The Price of Gold: A Novel; and coeditor with William E. Farr of Fifty Years After the Big Sky. He has published widely on American poetry and the literatures of the American West. NANCY COOK is associate professor of English at the University of Montana–Missoula. She has published work on a variety of western writers and issues, as well as on book history. She teaches courses on ecocriticism, place studies, and the West. Her current project examines women in the twentieth-century American Outback,with an emphasis on wives of park rangers. STEVE DAVENPORT is associate director of creative writing at the University of Illinois– Urbana-Champaign and the nonfiction editor of Ninth Letter. He is the author of Uncontainable Noise, winner of the Transcontinental Award for Poetry; a dozen short stories in magazines such as BlackWarrior Review and Fiction International; and“Murder on Gasoline Lake,”which received a Notable listing in Best American Essays 2007. TAMAS DOBOZY is associate professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. He has published on John Coltrane, Charles Bukowski, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, and Mavis Gallant in venues such as Genre, Modern Fiction Studies, Critical Survey, and Canadian Literature. He has also published two collections of short fiction, When X Equals Marylou (Arsenal Pulp) and Last Notes and Other Stories (HarperCollins). He lives in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. ROGER DUNSMORE taught humanities, wilderness studies, and American Indian literature at the University of Montana–Missoula from 1963 to 2003. He was one of the founding members of the Round River Experiment in Environmental Education at um, 1971–74. During the academic year 1988–89 he trained teachers at the largest American Indian high school in the United States, at Tuba City on the Navajo Reservation. In 1991 and 1997 he was the Faculty Exchange Fellow between um and Shanghai International Studies University, China. He has published three volumes of poetry as well as a collection of essays, titled Earth’s Mind: Essays in Native Literature, and he edited The Poetics of Wilderness, the “Proceedings” of um‘s 2001 Wilderness Lecture Series. He teaches literature and writing at the University of Montana–Western in Dillon. BRADY HARRISON is professor of English at the University of Montana–Missoula. He is the author of Agent of Empire, editor of a Broadview edition of Richard Harding Davis’s Soldiers of Fortune, and coeditor with Tamas Dobozy of a special issue of Short Story on Canadian short fiction set in the United States. His work has appeared in 254 Contributors scholarly journals and books in the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Australia, and he teaches courses on American and Canadian literature, with a particular interest in the literatures of the North American West. MATTHEW L. JOCKERS is consulting professor and Academic Technology Specialist in the Department of English at Stanford University. His research interests are in Irish Studies, the American West, and Humanities Computing. Jockers is secretary of the American Conference for Irish Studies and executive director of the Western Institute of Irish Studies. His recent publications focus on the literary work of Irish Americans who lived and wrote west of the Mississippi. GREGORY L. MORRIS teaches at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, where he is professor of American literature. He is the author of Talking Up a Storm: Voices of the New West and has contributed two titles to the Western Writers Series. His essays on western American writing have appeared in journals such as Western American Literature, Great Plains Quarterly, and South Dakota Review. KARL OLSON is a native of Idaho. He lives in Missoula, Montana, and works for the Missoula Public Library. In 2008 he was cocurator of Montana’s first Out at the Library exhibit and series devoted to lesbian and gay literature and history. ANDREA OPITZ received her PhD in comparative literature from the University of Washington. She teaches American and contemporary literature at the University of Rhode Island. Her previous work on James Welch has appeared in American Indian Quarterly and Studies in American Indian Literatures. JIM RAINS, a member of the Creek Nation of Oklahoma, earned a doctorate in English from the University of Michigan. He teaches in the departments of English and Native American Studies at Montana State University–Billings. LOIS WELCH is a...