Notes on Contributors

B. R. Burg is Professor of History at Arizona State University. He is the author of Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean (New York: New York University Press, 1982) and An American Seafarer in the Age of Sail: The Erotic Diaries of Philip C. Van Buskirk, 1851-1870 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994). He is the editor of Gay Warriors: A Documentary History from the Ancient World to the Present (New York: New York University Press, 2002). Burg is presently completing a study on the link between Royal Navy sodomy prosecutions and pedophile officers during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

H. G. Cocks is a Lecturer in History at Birkbeck College in the University of London. His book Nameless Offences: Speaking of Male Homosexuality in 19th Century England (I. B. Tauris) is due to appear in 2003.

Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger will be visiting Assistant Professor of English at St. John's University in New York during 2002-03. Her current project is a series of readings in the history of bawdy humor in the late eighteenth century.

D. S. Neff is Professor of English at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He has published articles on literary theory and nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American literature. Some recent pieces have appeared in Victorian Poetry; Journal of English and Germanic Philology; Journal of American Drama and Theatre; South Atlantic Review; LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory; Poetics Today; and European Romantic Review. He is currently working on an article on Keats, masturbation anxiety, and The Eve of St. Agnes.