Contributors to This Volume

Contributors Contributors to This Volume vii Victoria Aarons, Professor of English at Trinity University, received her doctorate from the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley. She is the author ofA Measure ofMemory: Storytelling and Identity in American Jewish Fiction (1996), which received the Choice award for an outstanding academic book. She has published numerous essays on American Jewish literature. Remi Astruc completeda doctoral dissertation on JewishAmerican novels at Columbia and the University of Paris. He has published articles on Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, and Woody Allen in French reviews and is currently preparing a monograph on Roth. He teaches at the College of Pablo Neruda in Gagny, France. Thomas Fahy is a doctoral candidate at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill. He currently has articles appearing in Style, Prospects, and Women's Studies. His dissertation examines freak shows in twentieth-century American literature. Marshall Bruce Gentry is Professor of English and chair of his department at the University ofIndianapolis. He is the author of Flannery O'Connor's Religion ofthe Grotesque and many articles on modem writers in journals. He is co-editor of Conversation with Raymond Carver and edits the literary magazine The Flying Island. Jay L. Halio, Professor ofEnglish at the University ofDelaware, is the author ofPhilip Roth Revisited and many articles and reviews on modem fiction. He is also a Shakespeare scholar. James Mellard is Presidential Teaching Professor of English at Northern Illinois University, where he has served as department chair, acting college dean, and interim director ofathletics. Among his books are Using Lacan and Reading Fiction. He is also the author of nearly a hundred essays and reviews in leading journals. G. Neelakantan, Associate Professor ofEnglish at the Indian Institute ofTechnology, Kanpur, is the author ofa book called Saul Bellow and the Modern Waste Land. He has published a number of essays on Bellow and other modem writers and is currently at work on Jewish intertextualities. Timothy L. Parrish is Assistant Professor ofEnglish at the University ofNorth Texas. He has articles on BernardMalamud, Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, Mary Antin, and others in American literature and is now working on a book whose working title is "Walking Blues: From Emerson to Elvis." viii SHOFAR Fa1l2000 Vol. 19, No.1 Nora Ruth Roberts is a teacher and writer who has published stories and poetry in Playgirl, Wastelands Review, The Minnesota Review, and elsewhere as well as articles in academic journals. A grant from the Jewish League for the Education of Women enabled her to complete her doctoral dissertation at the City University of New York on three radical women writers of the 1930s, which won the Carolyn Heilbrun Award in Women's Studies. Derek Parker Royal teaches at North Georgia College and State University, the military college of Georgia. His doctoral thesis was on "More Than Jewish Mischief: Postmodern Ethnicity in the Later Fiction of Philip Roth." He has several articles in journals including Modern Drama, Studies in the Novel, and Film Criticism on topics in contemporary literature. Debra Shostak is Associate Professor of English at the College of Wooster in northeastern Ohio, where she also chairs her department. She has published several articles on Philip Roth and is currently at work on a study ofRoth's dialogical art. ...