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  • Contributors

Donna Bauerly has been Professor of English at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, since 1971. In 1990-1991, while on sabbatical, she was a Visiting Scholar at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has published poems in small press magazines and criticism in Pembroke and Studia Mystical. She has received national recognition as a teacher-scholar, honored for the past four years by the American Association of Higher Education as a "distinguished teacher" and for participating in their annual "Exemplary Teacher Forum."

Paula Bennett is assistant professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She is the author of My Life a Loaded Gun: Dickinson, Plath, Rich and Female Creativity and Emily Dickinson: Woman Poet. Her current projects include Dickinson's Sisters, a collection of essays on nineteenth-century American women poets.

Jo-Anne Cappeluti earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of California at Riverside (1990). Her dissertation, "Inner Distance," analyzes the depersonalized poetics of T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden in conceptual relationship to those of John Keats. For the last eight years, she has taught literature, creative writing, and composition courses at both California State University at Fullerton and Fullerton College.

Paul Crumbley is currently completing a dissertation on Emily Dickinson at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is Director of the Writing Center. Crumbley received his undergraduate degree from Willamette University and has earned master of arts degrees from The School of Theology at Claremont, Reed College, and the Bread Loaf School of English. [End Page 123]

Margaret Dickie is the Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Georgia. She has written books on Hart Crane, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, the Modernist long poem, as well as numerous articles on American literary figures. Her most recent book is Lyric Contingencies: Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens (1991).

Beth Maclay Doriani is assistant professor of English at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa. Her work on women writers has appeared in Early American Literature and American Quarterly. Her research on Emily Dickinson and other female poets draws together feminist and religious criticism and backgrounds.

Cynthia Hogue, assistant professor of English at the University of New Orleans, has published essays on H. D. and Adrienne Rich. She is the author of two collections of poetry, The Woman in Red (1989) and Where the Parallels Cross (1983). She has received NEA and Fulbright-Hayes Fellowships and is currently working on a book entitled Scheming Women: Feminism, Poetry, and Female Subjectivity. [End Page 124]

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