The Contributors

?6? THE CONTRIBUTORS soNDRA smith gates lives, writes, and teaches near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She has written about nineteenth-century representations of poverty, including "Sedgwick's American Poor" in Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Critical Perspectives. NGHANA lewis is an assistant professor of English at Louisiana State University. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled Literary Kin: Aesthetics, Race Consciousness, and Identity Politics in the Writing ofErnest Hemingway and Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. Joshua David BELLiN teaches literature, writing, and film at La Roche College. He has authored two books, The Demon of the Continent : Indians and the Shaping of American Literature, and Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation, forthcoming in 2005. George toles is Professor of English at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. He is the author of A House Made of Light: Essays on the Art of Film. A long-time collaborator of Canadian film director Guy Maddin, he has recently co-authoed the screenplay for Guy's feature film, The Saddest Music in the World. Philip kuberski is Professor of English at Wake Forest University and the author of three books on modern literature and science. ...