The Contributors

THE CONTRIBUTORS Clark davis holds the Endowed Professorship in English at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. He is the author ofAfter the Whale: Melville in the Wake of Moby-Dick as well as numerous articles on American writers. Robert milder, Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, has published widely on Melville and other American Renaissance writers. He is the author of Reimagining Thoreau (1995) and is currently working on a book on Melville. Audrey Goodman is Assistant Professor of English at Georgia State University. She is currently writing a book about translation and cultural production in the Anglo Southwest. Matthew lessig is a doctoral candidate in English at the University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently completing his dissertation , "Black Folk/White Bondage: Race, Class, and the Literature of Sharecropping, 1925-42." Robert j. corber is a visiting professor of English and lesbian and gay studies at Trinity College (Hartford, CT), and author of In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America (1993), Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis ofMasculinity (1997), and several essays on twentieth-century American literature and culture. ...