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  • Contributors

Meryl Altman is Professor of English and Women's Studies at DePauw. She came to Greencastle in 1990, after teaching at William and Mary and studying at Swarthmore and Columbia, where she earned her Ph.D. in English literature with a dissertation on modernist American poetry. She has published articles about Djuna Barnes, H.D., William Faulkner, William Carlos Williams, metaphor, and feminist theory, and she writes periodically for the Women's Review of Books. Her most recent publications focus on Simone de Beauvoir.

Catherine Bacon is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Texas. Her work focuses on how women novelists in early twentieth-century England and Ireland absorbed, manipulated, and redefined the conflicting contemporary discourses of sexuality, and how the discourses of nation, class, and imperialism were deployed in their attempts to rework the place of romance in the women's novel.

Audrey Bilger, Associate Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College, is the author of Laughing Feminism: Subversive Comedy in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen (1998) and editor of Jane Collier's 1753 Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting for Broadview Literary Texts (2003).

Kathleen Blake is Professor of English at the University of Washington, author of Play, Games, and Sport: The Literary Works of Lewis Carroll (1974) and Love and the Woman Question in Victorian Literature: The Art of Self-Postponement (1983). She is editor of Approaches to Teaching George Eliot's Middlemarch (1990), contributor to The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot (2001), and has published articles on a range of Victorian writers. Her forthcoming book from Oxford University Press is Pleasures of Benthamism: Victorian Literature, Utility, Political Economy.

Donna Campbell is Associate Professor of English at Washington State University, where she teaches late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature. She is the author of Resisting Regionalism: Gender and Naturalism in American Fiction, 1885-1915 (1997). Her articles on women writers, including Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane, have appeared in Legacy, Studies in American Fiction, Studies in American Naturalism, American Literary Realism, and Great Plains Quarterly. Her current project is a monograph on American women writers of naturalism. [End Page 217]

Jane Donawerth, Professor of English and affiliate in Women's Studies at the University of Maryland, has coedited with Carol Kolmerten Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference (1994), and authored Frankenstein's Daughters: Women Writing Science Fiction (1997). She was awarded the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Scholarship Award for her career work in gender and science fiction. She has also published widely on Shakespeare, early modern women's writings, the history of women's rhetorical theory, and is founding coeditor of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal (www.emwjournal.umd.edu).

Nicole Fluhr is Associate Professor of English at Southern Connecticut State University. She is currently working on a book about nineteenth-century epistolary literature.

Trinna S. Frever is Lecturer in English at the University of Michigan, Flint. She has published several articles addressing intersections between fiction and other art forms (oral storytelling, music, dance, film), including "'Mah Story Ends' or Does It?: Orality and Community in Zora Neale Hurston's 'The Eatonville Anthology'" in Journal of the Short Story in English. She has also chaired sessions on Intermedia Theory and Orality and Fiction at recent MLA and NeMLA conventions. Her next project addresses intersections of religion and material culture in the work of Latina writers.

Jeane Harris is Professor of English at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro. She is author of the novels Delia Ironfoot (2003), The Magnolia Conspiracy (2004), and A Grave Opening (2005), as well as several works of short fiction, including most recently "Let Sleeping Cats Lie" in Women of Mystery: An Anthology edited by Katherine V. Forrest (2006). She has also published on the work of Willa Cather in Modern Fiction Studies and Studies in Short Fiction.

Erica Longfellow is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University in London. She is the author of Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England (2004) and coeditor with Elizabeth Clarke of the confessions of Elizabeth Isham (1639), one of the first narrative autobiographies in English, available...

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