The Contributors

THE CONTRIBUTORS randall roorda is an assistant professor of English at the University of Missouri—Kansas City. A version of his article on "Ktaadn" will appear in his book, Dramas of Solitude: Narratives of Retreat in American Nature Writing, forthcoming this spring from the State University of New York Press. Jennifer travis, Assistant Professor of English at Illinois State University , is the author of articles forthcoming in Women's Studies and Modem Fiction Studies. She is currently the Monticello College Foundation Fellow for Women at the Newberry Library, where she is completing a book-length study of the evolution of emotional injury in the United States. j. christopher Cunningham received his Ph.D. from Duke University and has written on William Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, and the Harlem Renaissance. At present, he is co-authoring the volume on modern American poetry for The Cambridge History of American Literature; he is also working on TJie American Encyclopaedia, a project tracing the emergence of several ambitious "encyclopaedic" texts in the early twentieth century. john hollowell directs the Composition Program at the University ofCalifornia, Irvine. He is the author ofFact & Fiction: The New Journalism and the Nonfiction Novel (North Carolina, 1997) and essays on pedagogy, composition, and American literature. patricia p. chu is Assistant Professor of English at George Washington University. She is writing a book on desire, assimilation, and authorship in Asian American literature. Robert dale parker teaches English at the University of Illinois at Utbana-Champaign. He is the author of articles on Native American literature and other topics in American litetature. He is currently working on a book about the invention of Native American litetature from the 1930s to the present. ...