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  • Contributors

Lawrence I. Berkove is Professor of English at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He has published extensively in his field of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature, particularly on Twain, Bierce, London, and the writers of the Comstock Lode.

Thomas Gardner is Professor of English at Virginia Tech. His books are Discovering Ourselves in Whitman: The Contemporary American Long Poem (1989) and Regions of Unlikeness: Explaining Contemporary Poetry (1999). He has just edited a special issue of Contemporary Literature on "American Poetry in the 1990s" and is at work on a book on Dickinson and contemporary writers.

Elizabeth Rosa Horan is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Arizona State University and is currently taking courses at the School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her most recent book is The Subversive Voice of Carmen Lyra (UP of Florida 2000).

Heinz IckstadT holds the chair for American Literature at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies in Berlin. He has written a book on Hart Crane, a history of the American Novel in the 20th Century and just edited (with Eva Hesse) a bi-lingual anthology of American poetry.

Nancy Johnston received her Ph.D. from York University in Toronto and works as a Writing Consultant at the University of New Brunswick. Her article, "The Loaf and the Crumb: Dickinson' s Aesthetics of Bread Making," will appear in the forthcoming anthology, Emily Dickinson at Home.

Christine Ross has been a faculty member in English and Comparative Literature at University of California, Irvine, and is now a teacher of English at Santa Ana High School. She is at work on a book that reads Dickinson's poetry through her education in the textbook tradition that established the hegemony of what is now known as Standard English.

Michael Theune is a Ph.D. student in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston. He holds degrees from Hope College, the University of Oxford, and the University of Iowa. His work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Verse, The Iowa Review, and the New Republic. [End Page 121]

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