Contributors
- Contributors
Fiona A. Black is a reference librarian at the Regina Public Library in Saskatchewan, Canada, and a research student in the Department of Information and Library Studies, Loughborough University, England. She is co-editor of Volume 2 of the History of the Book in Canada project. Her research focuses on book availability in early Canada with an emphasis on the Scottish contribution, and on the use of technologies as aids to bibliographers and book historians.
J. Malcolm W. Black is a soil conservationist with the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration, an agency of Agriculture Canada. He has a professional interest in geographic information systems, as well as an interest in helping book historians to use this technology.
Arlen Viktorovich Blium was born on 30 March 1933 in Melitopol’, Ukraine. After his father was arrested in 1936, his grandmother took him to Orenburg in the Ural Mountains, where he finished high school. He learned only in the late 1950s that his father had been shot in 1938. Blium received a doctoral degree from the Bibliography Department of the Leningrad Library Institute and has taught there since 1965. (It is now known as the Department of Information and Library Science of the St. Petersburg Academy of Culture.) While still a graduate student, Blium became interested in censorship research, but at that time he could publish work only about tsarist Russia of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Nevertheless, in the 1970s, he quietly began to study Soviet censorship. The advent of “Perestroika” in the late 1980s finally gave Blium access to archival materials that had been off limits. This work resulted in the book from which an excerpt is translated here. Professor Blium’s latest book is Evreiskii vopros pod sovetskoi tsenzuroi [The Jewish question under Soviet censorship] (St. Petersburg: Akademicheskii Proekt, 1996). Correspondence to Arlen Blium can be sent to: Russia/Rossiia, 1.104 Sankt-Petersburg, ul. Belinskogo, d. 5, kv. 75.
Ian Donaldson is Grace 1 Professor of English and Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge University. His latest book is Jonson’s Magic Houses (1997). A version of this essay was presented as the banquet speech at the 1995 SHARP conference in Edinburgh.
Alice Fahs teaches American history at the University of California, Irvine. Her book, Publishing the Civil War: Popular Literature and the Meanings of the Nation, 1861–1865, is forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press.
Donna M. Farina received a Ph.D. in linguistics from the Universtiy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1991.1 She has taught French, Russian, and linguistics, most recently at Drew University and Jersey City State College. She has worked on dictionary projects for Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press, and is a reader for the Oxford English Dictionary North American Program. Her research focuses on the history of lexicography, especially Russian monolingual and bilingual dictionaries.
Michael Hancher, Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, is writing a history of dictionary illustration in Great Britain and the United States. His book The Tenniel Illustrations to the “Alice” Books (1985) was published in Japanese translation in 1997. He has published many articles on Victorian poetry and painting and on relations between pragmatics and literary and legal interpretation.
Emily Jenkins is a Ph.D. candidate in English literature at Columbia University. Her article is part of a dissertation entitled “The Reading Public and the Illustrated Novel, 1890–1914.” Her book, Tongue First: Adventures in Physical Culture, will be published by Henry Holt in August 1998.
Priya Joshi is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
Wallace Kirsop is Associate Professor of French at Monash University. His research interests lie in physical bibliography and book history (France, seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries; Australia, nineteenth century). His Sandars Lectures of 1981 were published by the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand in 1995 under the title Books for Colonial Readers: The Nineteenth-Century Australian Experience.
Sherry Lee Linkon is an Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Youngstown State University, where she is also a founding member of the Center for Working-Class Studies. She is the editor of In Her Own Voice: Nineteenth-Century American Women...
