Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors Harriet Blodgett (Review of Perreault, Writing Selves) is an Associate Professor of English at California State UniversityStanislaus . She is the author of Centuries of Female Days: Englishwomen 's Private Diaries (1988), and the compiler and editor of "Capacious Hold-All": Englishwomen's Diary Writings (1991). Kenneth E. Hall ("Cabrera Infante as Biographer") was born in Rome, Georgia in 1954, received his Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Arizona in 1986, and has taught Spanish at the University of North Dakota since 1988. He is now an Associate Professor . His publications include Guillermo Cabrera Infante and the Cinema, Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs (1989), and Mea Cuba, a translation (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1994) of the 1992 work by Cabrera Infante, in collaboration with the author. Denise Adele Heaps ("P. K. Page's Brazilian Journal: Language Shock") is a Teaching Assistant at the University of Toronto, where she is completing her doctoral dissertation on Canadian travel literature. Her publications include "The Inscription of Feminine Jouissance in Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Set Down and Wept," Studies in Canadian Literature 19.1 (1994): 142-55. Stephen Preskill ("Combative Spirituality and the Life of Benjamin E. Mays") is Associate Professor of Education at the Uni- 478 biography Vol. 19, No. 3 versity of New Mexico, and has written a number of biographical essays about educators, including Charles Eliot, James Conant, Myles Horton, and Henry Adams. Hazel Rowley (Review of Sheringham, French Autobiography) is the author oÃ- Christina Stead: A Biography (Holt, 1994). She is a Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at Deakin University, Melbourne , Australia. William Todd Schultz ("An 'Orpheus Complex' in Two Writers -of-Loss") wrote a psychobiographical dissertation on James Agee at the University of California, Davis, and now teaches psychology at Pacific University. He has also written on Wittgenstein 's death fear, Capote's "Answered Prayers," and is currently researching the subjective origins of Henry Cotton's "Chronic Sepsis" theory of insanity. Laura Skandera-Trombley ("Mark Twain: God's Fool Redux") is an Associate Professor of English and Assistant Provost at the State University of New York at Potsdam, and Executive Director of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Her biography of Twain, Mark Twain in the Company of Women, was cited by Choke magazine as one of the outstanding scholarly books of 1995. Phyllis E. Wächter ("Bibliography of Works About Life-Writing ") plans to return to school following the publication of her book on "Ethel Arnold: New Victorian Woman." Linda Wagner-Martin (Review of Braham, Crucial Conversations ) is Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her most recent books include Telling Women's Lives: The New Biography (Rutgers UP, 1994) and "Favored Strangers": Gertrude Stein and Her Family (Rutgers, 1995). She is currently writing a second Plath biography. ...