• The Contributors

Forrest G. Robinson is a professor of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His most recent book on Mark Twain, The Author-Cat: Clemens’s Life in Fiction, was published by Fordam University Press in 2007.

Matt Miller is Assistant Professor of English at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women. His book, Collage of Myself: Walt Whitman and the Making of Leaves of Grass, will be published in late 2010 by the University of Nebraska Press.

Jane Malcolm is a post-doctoral lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work examines modernism’s recalcitrant feminisms and the aesthetics of hard and soft in the work of H.D., Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, and Laura Riding.

Elizabeth Binggeli a post-doctoral lecturer in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and in the Department of English at the University of Chicago. She is currently completing her book, Hollywood Dark Matter: Race and the American Novel in Studio Narrative Culture.

John Conley is a lecturer in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. His book project concerns cynicism, post-Fordism, and contemporary American literature. He also works at the Simpson Men’s Homeless Shelter in South Minneapolis.

Eric Cheyfitz is Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell University, where he directs the American Indian Program. His latest book is The (Post)Colonial Construction of Indian Country in The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literature of the United States Since 1945, which he also edited. [End Page 163]

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