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  • Contributors

Wendy Barker, associate professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio, is the author of Lunacy of Light: Emily Dickinson and the Experience of Metaphor (Southern Illinois University Press) and two collections of poetry, Winter Chickens (Corona Publishing Company) and Let the Ice Speak (Ithaca House Books of the Greenfield Review Press). Barker is currently at work on a third manuscript of poems titled Matter of Singing and is editing, with poet Walt McDonald, an anthology of contemporary love poetry.

Roseanne Hoefel is assistant professor of English at Alma College, where she will be coordinating a women's studies program in the near future. She has published articles and reviews in The Women's Studies Review, Feminisms, and Phoebe and has articles forthcoming in Studies in Short Fiction, Women's Studies International Forum, and in an anthology on Virginia Woolf and humor. Her current project is a study of Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf in the light of French feminist and poststructuralist theories.

Judith Pascoe is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses primarily on British women poets of the Romantic period; she is writing a dissertation on Mary Robinson, prolific poet and novelist of the 1790s.

Gary Stonum is professor of English at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of The Dickinson Sublime (University of Wisconsin Press) and Faulkner's Career (Cornell University Press).

Daneen Wardrop is assistant professor of American Literature at Western Michigan University. She is the recipient of the Thomas J. Griffis prizes for best graduate student essay (1988) and for graduate student poetry (1987) at the University of Virginia. She is currently writing a book on Emily Dickinson and Gothicism. [End Page 107]

Sarah Wider teaches American literature at Colgate University. She has published articles on congregation response to early nineteenth-century Unitarian sermons and is currently working on a study of the conventions of self-representation in the autobiographical writings of Anna Tilden Gannett.

Claudia Yukman is assistant professor of English and American literature at the University of Oregon. She has recently completed a manuscript titled Recuperating Forms: Poetry and the Semiotic Body in Dickinsons and Whitman's Practice. She has also published articles on Wallace Stevens and Willa Cather. [End Page 108]

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