The Contributors

THE CONTRIBUTORS Kristin carter-sanborn is an assistant professor of English and American Studies at Williams College. She teaches whiteness studies , critical race theory, television studies, general literary theory, and surveys in U.S. Latino and Latina literature and culture. "Restraining Order" is part of a longer manuscript, entitled Feminism on the Verge of Violence. Julia LEYDA is Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, where she teaches literature, cultural studies, and cinema studies. E. L. MCCALLUM teaches in the Department of English at Michigan State University, and is the author of Object Lessons: How to Do Things with Fetishism as well as essays in Camera Obscura, Poetics Today , and differences. Neil Schmitz is a Professor of English at the State University ofNew York at Buffalo. His new book, White Robe's Dilemma: Tribal History in American Literature, is forthcoming in Februrary, 2001. IOHN taggart, poet and critic, teaches at Shippensburg University and is the author of eleven volumes of poetry, most recently When the Saints. His criticism includes Remaining in Light: Ant Meditations on a Painting by Edward Hopper and Songs of Degrees: Essays on Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. ...