Contributors
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Authors
Sara Humphreys currently works as an assistant professor in the English department at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. When she isn’t writing about the material culture of Westerns or revising her dissertation for publication, she can be found hiking with her dog on the Peterborough trails.
Emily Lutenski recently received her PhD in English and Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan and is now an instructor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University. Her work has previously appeared in MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled “In the Land of Enchantment: Multiethnic Modernism and the American Southwest.”
Chad Wriglesworth is a PhD candidate and Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellow at the University of Iowa. His work focuses on literary and historical studies of western watersheds, particularly the Columbia River Basin. In forthcoming articles on Theodore Winthrop, William Stafford, and Ken Kesey, he traces how prose and poetry have contributed to the ongoing re-creation of this long contested watershed.
Artists
Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902–2001) was born in Mexico City and lived there for his entire life. He started photographing Mexico City in the late 1920s. His photos capture a moment when residents of Mexico’s provinces were flooding into the city, causing a collision between traditional ways of life and the harsh urban existence. In 1927, Bravo met photographer Tina Modotti, an important inspiration for his work. He documented Diego Rivera’s murals and several pre-Hispanic paintings. In his later work, he explored the social and sexual representations of men and women. An extended analysis of Álvarez Bravo’s work can be read in National Camera: Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment (2009) by Roberto Tejada.
De Lancey W. Gill (1859–1940) was a Washington, DC, artist who gained recognition for his watercolors. Between 1884 and 1898, he served as a draftsman and, then, illustrations editor for the United States Geological Survey. Beginning in 1889, he was also illustrations editor for the Bureau of American Ethnology and remained in the latter position until 1932. [End Page 108] When he became a regular BAE staff member in the late 1890s, it was one of his duties to take photographs of Indian visitors to Washington.
The Western Silent Films Lobby Cards Collection at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is composed of 106 items used to market silent and Western films. The material dates between 1910 and 1930. The collection offers a glimpse into the photographs and artistic representations of the era’s movies. Lobby cards were introduced around 1910 to attract pedestrians into the theater. [End Page 109]
