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Donna M. Bickford is lecturer in the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Rhode Island. Her dissertation is titled “Acts of Dissent: Literatures of Coming to Consciousness in the United States and Latin America.” Her article “Teaching Women Writers of the Americas” is forthcoming in Radical Teacher. In the fall of 2000 she discussed Lucha Corpi’s detective novels for the Modern Language Association’s radio series What’s the Word. Her research focuses on connections between literature and social change, twentieth-century women writers of the Americas, transnational comparative literary criticism, and feminist pedagogies.

Deborah Carlin is associate professor and director of graduate studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is author of Cather, Canon, and the Politics of Reading (1992) and editor of the anthology and textbook Queer Cultures: Readings across Disciplines (forthcoming).

Vincent Carretta is professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is author of The Snarling Muse: Verbal and Visual Political Satire from Pope to Churchill (1983) and George III and the Satirists from Hogarth to Byron (1990) and editor of Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century (1996). He has also published editions of the complete works of Olaudah Equiano (1995; revised and enlarged 2002), Ignatius Sancho (1998), Quobna Ottobah Cugoano (1999), and Phillis Wheatley (2001). Most recently, he has edited, with Philip Gould, Genius in Bondage: Literature of the Early Black Atlantic (2001). He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in eighteenth-century Anglophone transatlantic literature, especially courses concentrating on the first generation of writers of African descent.

Marcia Dickson is associate professor of English at Ohio State University at Marion, where she teaches technology-enhanced writing and literature courses (see mrspock.marion.ohio-state.edu/mcset). She is author of It’s Not like That Here: Teaching Academic Writing and Reading to Novice Writers (1995) and editor, with Pat Belanoff, of Portfolios: Process and Product (1991). [End Page 291]

Helen Rothschild Ewald is professor of rhetoric and professional communication at Iowa State University, where she teaches undergraduate courses in first-year composition and rhetorical analysis and graduate courses in academic writing and rhetorical and communication theory. She is author, most recently, of Mutuality in the Rhetoric and Composition Classroom, with David L. Wallace (2000).

Catherine Fox teaches writing at Iowa State University. Her research interests focus on feminist and critical pedagogies, critical race theory, and feminist rhetorics.

Thomas Hallock teaches at the University of Tampa and the University of South Florida. He recently completed a book-length manuscript on early national frontier and environmental literature. His essays have appeared in American Studies, Women’s Studies, and the South Atlantic Review.

Brian P. Hudson teaches freshman and advanced composition and an introductory literature course at Central Michigan University. He is interested in the changes that computers are bringing to the modern classroom and has taught in computer-mediated classrooms for three years. He hopes to pursue a doctorate in medieval studies.

Nedra Reynolds is associate professor of English and teaches writing and rhetoric courses at the University of Rhode Island. She is author of Portfolio Keeping: A Guide for Students and Portfolio Teaching: A Guide for Instructors and is editor, with Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg, of The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing, fifth edition (all 2000). Her article “Who’s Going to Cross This Border? Travel Metaphors, Material Conditions, and Contested Places” recently appeared in the Journal of Advanced Composition. She has also published in Rhetoric Review and College Composition and Communication. [End Page 292]

Robert Scholes is professor emeritus at Brown University, where he taught for thirty years in the Departments of Modern Culture and Media, English, and Comparative Literature. His books include Text Book: An Introduction to Literary Language, with Nancy R. Comley and Gregory L. Ulmer (1988); The Practice of Writing, originally with Comley (fifth edition, also with Janice Peritz, 2001); and The Crafty Reader (2001). He has taught writing at every level from the first year to graduate school and helped develop the College Board’s Pacesetter English Program for high school students. More recently, he has taught courses in...

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