Contributors

Contributors Lisa M. Bitel (Review of McNamara, Sisters in Arms) is Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Land of Women: Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland (Cornell UP, 1996) and IsZe of Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland (CorneU UP, 1990). She is currently at work on a synoptic history of women in medieval Europe. Alison Booth (Review of Rhiel and Suchoff, The Seductions of Biography ), Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is the author of Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf (Cornell UP, 1992), and editor of Famous Last Words: Changes in Gender and Narrative Closure (UP of Virginia, 1993). Her current project, entitled "Ruling Lives: Collective Biographies of Women," contributes to feminist historical studies of life-narrative. Miriam Cooke (Review of Gorkin and Othman, Three Mothers, Three Daughters), author of War's Other Voices (Cambridge UP, 1988) and Women and the War Story (U of California P, 1996), is Professor of Arabic at Duke University. Alan C. Elms (Review of Sulloway, Born to Rebel) is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. His book on psychobiography , Uncovering Lives (Oxford UP, 1994), was recently reissued in a paperbound edition. Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres (Review of Smith and Watson, Getting a Life), Professor of German and Women's Studies at the University of Minnesota, is co-editor of Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives (Indiana UP, 1989), and the author or editor of eleven other books, including the forthcoming Respectability and Deviance: Nineteenth-Century German Women Writers and the Ambiguity of Representation (U of Chicago P, 1998). She was editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society from 1990-1995. Karen Louise Jolly (Review of Szarmach, Holy Men, Holy Women) is Associate Professor of History at the University of Hawaii at Mänoa, where she teaches medieval European and world history. Her research examines popular culture and Anglo-Saxon religious Ufe, including a recent book on Popular Religion in Late Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context (U of North Carolina P, 1996). Greg Mahr ("Pessoa, Life Narrative, and the Dissociative Process") is a psychiatrist in practice at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, an aff Uiate of Case Western University. He is a speciaUst in psychosomatic illness and maintains an active interest in Uterature and the phUosophical aspects of psychiatry. 152 Biography 21.1 (Winter 1998) Patrick K. O'Brien, F.B.A. ("PoUtical Biography: A Polemical Review of the Genre"), is Director of the Institute of Historical Research and Professor of Economic History in the University of London. Catherine N. Parke (Review of Mascuch, Origins of the Individualist Self), Professor of EngUsh and Women's Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia, writes on British and American literature of the 18th through 20th centuries. She is the author of Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking (Missouri UP, 1991), Biography: Writing Lives (Twayne, 1996), a critical edition of Zoë Akins's essays on American poetry, and a volume of poems, Other People's Lives. K. J. Phillips (Review of Hynes, The Soldiers's Tale), Professor of EngUsh at the University of Hawai'i at Mânoa, has published Virginia Woolf against Empire (U of Tennessee P, 1994), and such articles as "Billy Budd as Anti-Homophobic Text" in College English (Dec. 1994). Herman Rapaport ("The New Personalism") is currently a Fellow at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. His most recent books include Is There Truth in Art? (CorneU, 1997) and Between the Sign and the Gaze (Cornell, 1994). He is Helen DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University. Marvin Rintala ("Family Portrait: Churchills at Drink") is Professor of Political Science at Boston College. His most recent book is Lloyd George and Churchill: How Friendship Changed Politics (Madison, 1995), and his most recent article in Biography is "Weber's Wilson: Living Off Political Science" (18.3, Summer 1995). Larissa Rudova (Review of Clyman and Vowles, Russia Through Women's Eyes) is Associate Professor of Russian and Chair of the Department of German and Russian at Pomona College. She is the author...