The Contributors

THE CONTRIBUTORS richard Boyd teaches in the English Department at the University of California, Riverside. He has published essays on Anne Bradstreet, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, as well as on the intersection of composition pedagogy and the mechanisms of mimetic desire. Elizabeth freeman is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University ofChicago. She has published, with Lauren Berlant, "Queer Nationality " in Michael Warner's anthology Fear ofa Queer Planet. Deborah garfield is presently an assistant professor of English at UCLA. She is the editor, along with Professor Rafia Zafar ofthe University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, of the forthcoming HarrietJacobs: New Literary and Cultural Essays, Cambridge University Press. She is working on two manusctipts: Transcendental Desire: Women, Emerson, and Narrative in the American Experience: 1843-1936, and The Exchange of Souls: The MasterlShve Dialectic in American Literature. ashraf h. a. RusHDY is an Assistant Professor ofEnglish and African American Studies at Wesleyan University. He is the authot of The Empty Garden: The Subject of Late Milton (1992), and is currently working on a book-length study of African American modes of representation in contemporary narratives of slavery to be entitled, Remembering Generations: The Discourse of Relation in African American Literature. eric wertheimer received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania , where he is currently teaching. His publications include atticles in American Literature and Early American Literature. He is currently at work on a study entitled, Imagined Empires: Incas, Aztecs, and the Columbian Trope in American Literature, 1771-1876. ...