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  • Notes on Contributors

Barry Ahearn (ahearn@tulane.edu) is a professor of English at Tulane University. His publications include Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky (New Directions, 1987) and Pound/Cummings: The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and E. E. Cummings (Michigan UP, 1996). He has recently completed an edition of the selected letters of Zukofsky.

Bartholomew Brinkman (babrinkm@illinois.edu) is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is currently completing a dissertation, The Cult of Collecting and the Making of Modernism, under the direction of Cary Nelson. Through a book history/print-culture analysis of the little magazine, the anthology, the quoting poem, and the “collected poems” of modern poets, the dissertation argues for late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century book collecting and scrapbooking practices as contrasting material bases for modern poetic genre, value and form.

Milton A. Cohen (mcohen@utdallas.edu) has published books on various aspects of modernism: on E. E. Cummings’s early poetry, painting and aesthetics (PoetandPainter), on the formation of Ernest Hemingway’s style (Hemingway’s Laboratory: the Paris in Our Time), and on modernist groups before World War I (Movement, Manifesto, Melee). His most recent book-manuscript, Beleaguered Poets and Leftist Critics, from which this article is drawn, studies how Stevens, Cummings, Frost and Williams responded to leftist literary and political pressures in the 1930s. Dr. Cohen is Professor of Literary Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas.

Patrick F. Durgin (kenningeditions@gmail.com) has taught literature and writing at SUNY-Buffalo, The College of St. Catherine, the University of Michigan, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His poetry and scholarly writings appear in Aerial: Contemporary Poetics as Critical Theory, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Disability Studies Quarterly, The New Review of Literature, and numerous other university and independent press publications. In July 2007, Atticus/Finch published his fourth chapbook of poetry (Imitation Poems) and Atelos Press published his collaboration with poet-translator Jen Hofer (The Route) in [End Page 193] July 2008. His current projects include a monograph on radical modernist poetry and hermeneutics, entitled Intentionalities and Indeterminacies: Toward a Poetics of Critical Values.

Melissa Girard (mgirard@illinois.edu) is a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is completing a dissertation on popular modernist poetry. Her work on the literary critic Kenneth Burke recently appeared in the critical collection Kenneth Burke and His Circles, eds. Jack Selzer and Robert Wess (West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2008).

Damien Keane (dkeane@buffalo.edu) is an Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is currently at work on a book manuscript entitled Ireland and the Problem of Information.

Robert S. Lehman (rsl29@cornell.edu) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Cornell University. His dissertation, “The Impossibility of Being Modern,” deals with time, tradition, and the event in the writings of T.S. Eliot, Henri Bergson, Wyndam Lewis, Walter Benjamin, and Alain Badiou. His writings have appeared or are forthcoming in Theory & Event and New Literary History.

Edward D. Pickering (edward.pickering@yale.edu) is a graduate student in English at Yale University, where he is writing his dissertation on nature writing and the legacy of Romanticism. A native of Connecticut, he attended Middlebury College in Vermont before moving to New Haven. He recently published an article on the relationship between the Southern Agrarians and New Critics in The Southern Literary Journal. A travel essay of his appeared in 2007 in The Sewanee Review and another is forthcoming in The Chariton Review.

Susan Sheridan (sue.sheridan@flinders.edu.au) is Adjunct Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. Her books include Christina Stead (Harvester/Indiana, 1988), Along the Faultlines: Sex, Race and Nation in Australian Women’s Writing 1880s to 1930s (Allen & Unwin, 1995), and Who Was That Woman? The Australian Women’s Weekly in the Postwar Years (UNSW Press, 2002); as editor, Grafts: Feminist Cultural Criticism (Verso, 1988), Debutante Nation: Feminism Contests the 1890s (with Sue Rowley and Susan Magarey, Allen & Unwin, 1993) and Thea Astley’s Fictional Worlds...

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