The Contributors

THE CONTRIBUTORS Phillip round, an assistant professor of English at the University of Iowa, is currently completing a book-length study of early New England literature entitled, Scientific Americans: The Discourse of Empire and the Formation of Literary Culture in Colonial New England, 1620-1776. daña phillips' essay "Is Nature Necessary?" appeared in the Winter 1994 issue of Raritan, and his article on Whitman and race is forthcoming in Nineteenth-Century Literature. He currently teaches at Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania. Mary cappello is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island. Her publications include literary criticism in nineteenth -century and early American studies, poetry, and creative non-fiction. She is currently writing a book entitled "William Penn's Treaty with the Indians": Improper Relations in American Cultural Studies , about the repetitive deployment of an imagined encounter between William Penn and the Lenni Lenape Indians in painting, literature , ethnography, and popular culture. bill brown, who teaches at the University of Chicago, is the author of The Material Unconscious: American Amusement, Stephen Crane, and the Economics o/Play (forthcoming, Harvard University Press). henry B. Wonham teaches American literature at Saint John's University in New York. He is the author of Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), and is currently editing a collection of essays entitled Criticism and the Color Line: Race and Revisionism in American Literary Studies, due out from Rutgers University Press in 1995. john N. duvall is associate professor ofEnglish at the University of Memphis, and is the author of Faulkner's Marginal Couple (University of Texas Press, 1990). He is at work on a book on contemporary American fiction. ...