Contributors
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Kimberly Alidio
Kimberly Alidio is an assistant professor of American history at the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently completing a book on colonial encounters among Filipinos and Americans, educational discourse, and racial-ethnic identity during the early twentieth century.
Jonathan Auerbach
Jonathan Auerbach is a professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. Author of numerous publications on American literature and culture, including The Romance of Failure (1989) and Male Call: Becoming Jack London (1996), he is currently completing a book on early cinema. He has taught and lectured abroad on American studies in Portugal, Egypt, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Cyprus, Japan, and Tunisia.
Lawrence Buell
Lawrence Buell is Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1990 in the Department of English and the American Civilization program. He is best known for his contributions to New England literary and cultural history and to the new ecocritical movement. His books include New England Literary Culture (1986), The Environmental Imagination (1995), Writing for an Endangered World (2001), Emerson (2003), and The Future of Environmental Criticism (2005).
Philip J. Deloria
Philip J. Deloria is professor of history and American culture at the University of Michigan and director of the Program in American Culture. He is the author of Indians in Unexpected Places (2004) and Playing Indian (1998), and co-editor of the Blackwell Companion to American Indian History (2001). He is working on a set of essays in cultural geography entitled Reading Mount Rushmore.
Finis Dunaway
Finis Dunaway is assistant professor of history at Trent University, Canada, and is the author of Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform (2005). He is working on a study of visual culture and [End Page 265] the popularization of environmentalism in 1970s America. A paper derived from this new project was awarded the 2005 Yasuo Sakakibara Prize from the American Studies Association.
Roderick A. Ferguson
Roderick A. Ferguson is associate professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is the author of Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (2004).
Karen Halttunen
Karen Halttunen is professor of history and the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, and the 2005-2006 president of the American Studies Association. She is the author of Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830- 1870 (1982) and Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination (1998); she is co-editor with Lewis Perry of Moral Problems in American Life: New Essays on Cultural History (1998). She is editing the Blackwell Companion to American Cultural History (forthcoming). Her current work concerns landscape and the discovery of "deep time" in nineteenth-century New England.
David Herzberg
David Herzberg is an assistant professor of history at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is currently revising a manuscript on the cultural, medical, and economic history of psychotropic (mood-altering) medicines in modern America, tentatively titled Designer Consciousness: Medicine, Marketing, and Identity in American Culture from Miltown to Prozac.
Catherine Jurca
Catherine Jurca is an associate professor of English at Caltech. She writes on American literature and classical Hollywood film and is the author of White Diaspora: The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel (2001).
Kimberly Lamm
Kimberly Lamm is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Washington. Her dissertation examines literary and visual portraiture in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American culture. [End Page 266]
Sherry Lee Linkon
Sherry Lee Linkon is a professor of English and American studies, and codirector of the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University. She was named a Carnegie Scholar in 1999 and Ohio Professor of the Year in 2003. Her book Teaching Working Class (1999) was voted one of the ten best academic books of the 1990s by the readers of Lingua Franca magazine. Along with John Russo, she published a book about work and community in Youngstown, Steeltown USA: Work and Memory in Youngstown (2002) and has coedited the collection New Working-Class Studies (2004).
James Livingston
James Livingston...
