Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Optimist Reformer

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n o t e s o n c o n t r i b u t o r s Judith A. Allen is professor of history and gender studies at Indiana University , with research interests in feminism, Australia, and women and crime. She has published on Rose Scott and on prostitution. Katharine Cockin is a lecturer in English at Hull University. She completed her Ph.D. dissertation on the Pioneer Players (1911–1925) at Leicester University in 1994 (forthcoming Macmillan) and is interested in Gilman’s drama in the context of the women’s suffrage movement in Britain. She has published a biography, Edith Craig (1869–1947): Dramatic Lives, and is indexing the Edith Craig archive. Deborah M. De Simone is assistant professor of education and women’s studies at the College of Staten Island, the City University of New York. Her research focuses on issues of gender within democratic educational traditions. Her publications have appeared in the journals Willa and Social Education. She is currently at work on the education of American children within the Japanese internment camps on Manila during World War II. Marie T. Farr is associate professor of English at East Carolina University. She first came across Gilman’s Three Women while teaching a Women in Literature course and that sparked her interest in Gilman’s theatrical background. In reviewing Gilman’s diaries for the New England Quarterly , she found evidence that Gilman’s interest in theatre was lifelong. Farr has also served as the founding director of the Women’s Studies Program at East Carolina. Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams is a doctoral candidate in rhetoric and nineteenth -century American literature at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and teaches at the University of Warwick. Her doctoral dissertation , ‘‘Revisioning American Democracy Through Evolutionary Rhetoric : Charlotte Perkins Gilman in Dialogue With Social Reform Discourses ,’’ focuses on Gilman’s position within turn-of-the-century American intellectual history. Yvonne Gaudelius is assistant professor of art education and women’s studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include the areas of feminist art criticism and feminist aesthetics in relationship to art education. Her work on Gilman has focused upon the area of Gilman’s revision and conceptualization of architectural space. Currently she is exploring Gilman’s writings in relation to the idea of the surveillance of gender. Recent publications include ‘‘When Art Turns Violent: Images of Women, the Sexualization of Violence and the Implications for Art Education’’ and ‘‘Postmodernism, Feminism and Art Education: An Elementary Art Workshop Based on the Works of Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly.’’ Sandra M. Gilbert is professor of English at the University of California, Davis. Perhaps still best known for her collaborative book with Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic, she has published widely on feminism and women’s writing, recently co-editing the second edition of The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, again with Susan Gubar . She is also a poet, whose published volumes include Emily’s Bread (1984), Blood Pressure (1989), and Ghost Volcano (1995). Catherine J. Golden is associate professor of English at Skidmore College. She is the editor of The Captive Imagination: A Casebook on ‘‘The Yellow Wallpaper’’ (Feminist Press, 1992) and Unpunished (with Denise D. Knight). Her work on ‘‘The Yellow Wallpaper’’ and Gilman’s other fiction and prose has appeared in Studies in American Fiction, Critical Essays on Charlotte Perkins Gilman (G. K. Hall, 1992), Re-visioning Feminism around the World (Feminist Press, 1995), and several books on American women writers. A founding member and now executive director of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society, she organized the Second International Gilman Conference (1997) with Judith Allen (Indiana University) and Joanna Zangrando (Skidmore College). She is also the author of many essays and reviews on Victorian book illustration published in Victorian Poetry, Victorian Studies, Victorian Periodicals Review, Salmagundi, the CEA Critic, Profession 95, and Woman’s Art Journal. Val Gough is a lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool. She has published on Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and language and gender, and she is currently working on two books: Hélène Cixous: Feminist Mystic and Looking at Language and Gender in Literature. She co-organized the first international conference on Gilman at the University of Liverpool, July 1995. Susan Gubar is Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University. Perhaps still best known for her collaborative book with Sandra Gilbert, The Madwoman in the Attic, she has published widely on eighteenth286 Notes on Contributors century literature...