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  • Contributors

John Gerlach is Chair and Professor of English at Cleveland State University. He has published a book on the story, Toward the End: Closure and Structure in the American Short Story, as well as articles on nineteenth-century American literature.

Grudrun M. Grabher is Professor of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She wrote her Ph.D. dissertation on Emily Dickinson, "Emily Dickinson: Das transzendentale Ich," published in Germany in 1981. In 1982/83 she spent a year at Harvard University on an ACLS and Fulbright scholarship, doing research for her book Lyrical You in American Poetry (Das lyrische Du), focussing on Sylvia Plath, Denise Levertov, and A. R. Ammons (published in 1989 in Germany). She is co-editor of the forthcoming Emily Dickinson Handbook.

Tyler B. Hoffman is a doctoral candidate at the University of Virginia. His dissertation is on Robert Frost's theory of "the sound of sense," its relationship to modernist philosophy and poetics, and its mythological and ideological import as a fiction of form.

Benjamin Lease is Professor Emeritus of English at Northeastern Illinois University and the author of numerous articles on American cultural and literary history. His books include Anglo-American Encounters: England and the Rise of American Literature (Cambridge UP) and Emily Dickinson's Readings of Men and Books: Sacred Soundings (Macmillan and St. Martin's).

Caroline C. Maun is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her work on Dickinson is drawn from her master's thesis, completed at North Carolina State University in 1992. She [End Page 103] is currently researching her dissertation on Evelyn Scott, American novelist of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

Lynn Shakinovsky is Assistant Professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University. She has published articles on Emily Dickinson. She is currently working on a book, which she is co-authoring with Kate Lawson, on domesticity and violence in nineteenth-century American and British fiction. [End Page 104]

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