The Contributors

THE CONTRIBUTORS Robert MCCLURE smith is Associate Professor of English at Knox College. He is co-editor with Ellen Weinauer of A Knowledge of the Gap: American Culture, Canons, and the Case of Elizabeth Stoddard (forthcoming 2003). colleen GLENNEY BOGGS is Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth College. She is currently working on a book-length project that examines how theories of translation produced a practice of American literature at the site of linguistic diversity. anna siomopoulos teaches cinema studies at Ithaca College. She has published articles on American film and culture in Cinema Journal and Film History. Jeff allred is a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently working on his dissertation, a study of the emergence of the "cultural worker" formation in Depression-era American literature. james berger is Associate Professor of English at Hofstra University, and author of After the End: Representations of Post-Apocalypse. He is currently working on a book entitled "Those Who Can't Speak: Language Impairment in Modern Literature and Culture," and is editing a new edition of the original version of Helen Keller's The Story of My Life. ...