The Contributors

THE CONTRIBUTORS Tom LOVELL is a Ph.D. candidate at the University ofUtah. His piece on Harriet Jacobs and Harriet Wilson is part of a larger study of the depiction of female wage earners in nineteenth-century American fiction. His work has also appeared in Early American Literature. nancy GLAZENER is an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh . Her book, Reading for Realism: The History of a U.S. Literary Institution, 1850-1910, is forthcoming from Duke University Press in 1997 as part of the New Americanists series. She is currently at work on a project that brings reception theory to bear on debates about pornography. Emily miller BUDiCK is professor of American Studies and chair of the department at Hebrew University ofJerusalem. Her most recent book is Mutual Textual Constructions of African and Jewish American Identity: Dialogues and Disputations (forthcoming). The essay published here is part of a current project entitled, Acknowkdging the Holocaust: Literature of the Final Solution. Barry w. SARCHETT teaches literary theory, popular culture, and American literature at Colorado College. He has most recently published essays on the Culture Wars in two volumes: PC Wars (Routledge , 1995) and Campus Wars (Westview, 1995). He is at work on an article on Frederick Crews' attacks on psychoanalysis and New Historicism. william LYNE teaches American Literature at Western Washington University. He is currently at work on a book about the relationship between African American cultutal production and American politics. Neil Schmitz, Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, has written extensively about Gertrude Stein, Abraham Lincoln, and Native American writers. ...