Contributors
Buy Issue for $25 at JHUP- Contributors
Dorothy Zayatz Baker is assistant professor of American literature at the University of Houston. She is the author of Mythic Masks in Self-Reflexive Poetry: A Study of Pan and Orpheus (U North Carolina P, 1986) and has published translations of Marina Tsvetaeva. She is currently working on the poetry of Lydia Sygourney.
Ellen Davis teaches writing at Boston University's College of Communication and in the Brandeis Summer Odyssey Program. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Harvard Review, The Anthology of New England Writers, The Prose Poem, Byline, The Beacon Street Review, and Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. She reviews books for Harvard Review and is an editorial assistant for Agni, a literary magazine published at Boston University. She earned her M.F.A. from Emerson College in 1990.
Judith Farr is professor of English at Georgetown University. She has published The Life and Art of Elinor Wylie (1983), The Passion of Emily Dickinson (1992), and critical articles, fiction, and poetry. She lectures on nineteenth-century American literature and painting at the National Gallery of Art, the National Museum of American Art, and other institutions.
Alice Fulton is currently a fellow of the MacArthur Foundation. Her third book of poetry, Powers of Congress, was published by David R. Godine. Her other collections include Palladium (U of PA P), and Dance Script With Electric Ballerina (U of PA P). A recipient of awards from the Guggenheim and the Ingram Merrill Foundations, she is professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Sandra M. Gilbert is professor of English at the University of California, Davis, and the author of four collections of verse, including, most recently, Emilys Bread (Norton) and Blood Pressure (Norton). With Susan Gubar, she has co-authored The Madwoman in the Attic: The Women Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Tradition (Yale) as well as No Man's Land: [End Page 183] The Place of the Women Writer in the Twentieth Century (3 volumes; Yale). Also with Susan Gubar, she has coedited The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English, along with several other volumes.
Roland Hagenbüchle is professor of American Literature at the Catholic University of Eichstätt, Bavaria (Germany). He is author of a monograph on Milton's Paradise Lost (1967), of the study Emily Dickinson: The Risk of Self-Encounter (1988), and of numerous articles on English and American literature. He is also the editor (with Joseph T. Swann) of Poetic Knowledge: Circumference and Center (1980), of American Poetry Between Tradition and Modernism, 1865-1914 (1983), and, (with Paul Geyer) of Paradox: A Challenge to Western Thought. A Systematic and Historical Perspective (1992). He is currently preparing an international conference on "The Roots of Modern Subjectivity."
Cynthia L. Hallen teaches courses on Emily Dickinson, Language and Literature, and the History of the English Language as assistant professor of English at Brigham Young University. She has a Ph.D in rhetoric, composition, and the teaching of English, and an M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language. She has worked as a freelance linguist, preparing lexicon and exegesis materials for translators. LAURA M. HARVEY works as an undergraduate research trainee for Dr. Hallen and will soon receive a B.A. in English at Brigham Young University.
Maravene Loeshcke is professor and chairperson in the Theatre Department at Towson Sate University in Baltimore, Maryland, where she teaches acting, mime, and feminist theatre. She holds a Ph.D from Union Graduate School. Dr. Loeschke is author of the book All About Mime, published by Prentice Hall. She has also published a novel, The Path Between, on Martha Dickinson Bianchi, the niece of Emily Dickinson who attempted to follow her famous aunt's example and become a poet and writer. Dr. Loeschke is also a professional actress in the Baltimore area. She has twice performed the role of Emily Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst, once in 1983 which sparked her interest in continuing her research on Dickinson's survivors and led her to her research and writing on Martha Dickinson Bianchi; and [End Page 184] again in 1989 when the novel was released. She is currently writing a play...
