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  • Contributors

Lynn Z. Bloom (Rev. of Frances Cogan's Captured) is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and Aetna Chair of Writing at the University of Connecticut. Her most recent book is Composition Studies as a Creative Art: Writing, Teaching, Scholarship, Administration (Utah State UP, 1998); this includes several autobiographical works of creative nonfiction, such as "Coming of Age in the Field That Had No Name."

Tess Chakkalakal (Rev. of Kenneth Mostern's Autobiography and Black Identity Politics) is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of English at York University (Toronto). She is currently working on her dissertation, "Shame on Stage: Uncle Tom in the Production of African American Literature," as a visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

G. Reginald Daniel (Rev. of Louis Owens's Mixedblood Messages) is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Cynthia J. Davis (Rev. of Judy Long's Telling Women's Lives) is Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. She is the author of Bodily and Narrative Forms: The Influence of Medicine on American Literature, 1845-1915 (Stanford UP, 2000), and is currently at work on a biography of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Paul Delany (Rev. of Timothy Dow Adams's Light Writing and Life Writing) is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University. He is writing a biography of the English photographer Bill Brandt.

Hilene Flanzbaum (Rev. of David Patterson's Sun Turned to Darkness) is Associate Professor of American Literature at Butler University. She is the editor of a collection of essays, The Americanization of the Holocaust (Johns Hopkins UP, 1999), and an editor of Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology (2000).

Adele Flood (Rev. of Wendy S. Hesford's Framing Identities) is Lecturer in Education in the Faculty of Education, Language, and Community Service, at RMIT University (Melbourne). Her interests are in Visual Arts Education and Cultural Studies. Her current research involves investigating the links between life histories, educational trajectories, and creativity, and the place of memory in the self-identification of textile artists. [End Page 647]

Judy Giles (Rev. of Penny Summerfield's Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives) is the author of Women, Identity and Private Life in Britain, 1900-1950 (St. Martin's, 1995), and co-editor of a collection of writings on what constituted "Englishness" in the first half of the twentieth century, Writing Englishness (Routledge, 1995). She has contributed articles to Women's Studies International Forum and Women's History Review, and is currently working on the reconstruction of domesticity and narratives of private life in the period 1930-1955.

Daniel Gold (Rev. of Robin Rinehart's One Lifetime, Many Lives) is Professor of South Asian Religions in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University.

Ellis Hanson (Rev. of Steven C. Caton's Lawrence of Arabia) is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University, and the editor of Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film (Duke UP, 1999).

Moyra Haslett (Rev. of Frances Wilson's Byromania) is Lecturer in the School of English, Queen's University, Belfast, and the author of Byron's Don Juan and the Don Juan Legend (Clarendon, 1997), and Marxist Literary and Cultural Theories (Macmillan, 1999).

Cynthia A. Huff ("Reading as Re-Vision: Approaches to Reading Manuscript Diaries"), an avid and longtime reader of women's manuscript diaries, is the author of British Women's Diaries (AMS, 1985), and co-editor of Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women's Diaries (U of Massachusetts P, 1996). An Associate Professor at Illinois State University, she has published numerous articles on life writing, Victorian literature, feminist theories, and women's studies.

Margaretta Jolly ("The Exile and the Ghostwriter: East-West Biographical Politics and The Private Life of Chairman Mao") lectures in Twentieth Century Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter. Her publications include Dear Laughing Motorbyke: Letters from Women Welders in the Second World War (Scarlet Press, 1997), and she is the editor of The Encyclopedia of Life Writing (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000).

Cindy LaCom (Rev. of Mary Klages's Woeful Afflictions) is an Associate Professor of English and the Director of the Honors Program at Slippery Rock University. She teaches and publishes...

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