Contributors
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Steven Gould Axelrod has written Robert Lowell: Life and Art (Princeton 1978) and Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words (Johns-Hopkins 1990). He has co-edited, with Helen Deese, Robert Lowell: Essays on the Poetry (Cambridge 1986), Critical Essays on Wallace Stevens (G. K. Hall 1988), and Critical Essays on William Carlos Williams (Twayne, forthcoming). He is presendy working on a book about tropes of domesticity and subversion in "the family poem," from Whitman and Dickinson through Audre Lorde and Cathy Song. He is chair and professor of English at the University of California, Riverside.
Lillian Faderman's work includes Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendships and Love Between Women From The Renaissance To The Present, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America, and Scotch Verdict, a study of the nineteenth century trial on which Lillian Hellman based The Children's Hour. She is a professor of English at California State University, Fresno.
Karen Richardson Gee received her Masters degree and Doctorate in English from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Gee is an independent scholar who now resides in Kingwood, Texas.
Kim Hosman received her M.A. degree in English Literature from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1991. She now works as a technical writer in the computer industry.
Jay Ladin's poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including Parnassus: Poetry in Review, California Quarterly, and Exquisite Corpse and two anthologies, Men of Our Time and Movieworks. In 1994, he will teach creative writing at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. [End Page 113]
Diane Gabrielsen Scholl is an associate professor of English at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, where she teaches American literature, modern fiction, and poetry courses. Her publications include poetry and articles on Dickinson and nineteenth-century conversion narratives and on Alice Walker's use of parable. Her research interests are in biblical interpretation and literature, literature by and about women, seventeenth-century poetry and modern poetry.
Shirley Sharon-Zisser is a doctoral candidate and teacher at the Department of English, Tel Aviv University. She is at work on a dissertation entitled "The Politics and Poetics of Simile," which examines the ideological, and specifically gender-related, contexts of the marginalization of simile in the Western rhetorical tradition. She has published articles on Renaissance and medieval literature and on the history of rhetoric in Milton Studies, REAL, Gardar, The Chaucer Review and Women's Studies and has most recently contributed an entry on rhetoric to The Dictionary of Feminist Literary Theory.
Martha Nell Smith is the author of Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson (1992), and, with Suzanne Juhasz and Cristanne Miller, co-author of Comic Power in Emily Dickinson (1993). With Ellen Louise Hart, she is currently completing an edition of Dickinson's correspondence with Susan Dickinson. She has also published on H.D., Toi Derricotte, Judy Grahn, Adrienne Rich, other modern and contemporary women poets, and rock and roller Bruce Springsteen. She is completing a volume on lesbian / gay images in American popular culture. She is Associate Professor and Associate Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park. [End Page 114]
