Notes on Contributors

Matthew P. Brown Assistant Professor in the Center for the Book and the English department at the University of Iowa, he is writing a book on reading practices in early New England.

J. Scott Bryson Associate Professor of English at Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles, he is editor of Ecopoetry: A Critical Introduction (2002) and author of The West Side of Any Mountain: Place, Space, and Ecopoetry.

Michael J. Drexler Assistant professor of English at Bucknell University, he is completing an edition of Leonora Sansay's early novels. His co-authored "Literary Histories" will appear in A Companion to American Fiction, 1780-1865 (forthcoming).

Elizabeth Freeman Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, she is author of The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture (2002) and is working on a book about queer temporality.

Ryan Jerving Assistant Professor of Writing at The George Washington University, his essay is drawn from his study on jazz, modernism, and the work of the artist in an age of mechanical reproduction.

Michael Kreyling Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, he has written three books on Eudora Welty, and coedited with Richard Ford The Library of America edition of Welty's collected works.

Andrew Lawson A Senior Lecturer in American Literary and Cultural Studies at Staffordshire University, his article forms part of a book he is completing on nineteenth-century American Literature, class identity, and literary form.

Laura J. Murray Associate Professor of English at Queen's University, Canada, she is working on a rhetorical analysis of US, Canadian, and Aboriginal discussions of copyright and common culture. Her website, www.faircopyright.ca, covers Canadian copyright policy and principles.

John Carlos Rowe Humanities Associates' Professor of the Humanities, English, and the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, he is author of The New American Studies (2002).

Charles Scruggs Professor of American Literature at the University of Arizona, he is author of Sweet Home: Invisible Cities in the Afro-American Novel (1993), and co-author of Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History (1998).

Ed White Assistant professor at Louisiana State University, he is the author of "Early American Nations as Imagined Communities" (American Quarterly, 2004) and The Backcountry and the City (forthcoming).