The Contributors

THE CONTRIBUTORS Stephen KNADLER is an assistant professor at Spelman College. He is currently completing "The Fugitive Race: Inventing and Resisting Whiteness, 1850-1930." He recently published an article in American Literary History. Jennie a. KASSANOFF is an assistant professor at Barnard college, and is the author of an essay on blood, gender, and representation in Hopkins' work in The Unruly Voice: Rediscovering Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (Illinois, 1996), and ofa forthcoming essay on Edith Wharton in the American Writers: Retrospective Supplement (Charles Scribner 's Sons, forthcoming 1997). She is currently at work on a book entitled "Invaders and Aborigines: Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race and Class." charles Scruggs is a professor at the University of Arizona. He is the author of The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s (Johns Hopkins, 1994), and Sweet Home: Invisible Cities in the Afro-American Novel (Johns Hopkins, 1993). He is currently finishing a book-length manuscript on Jean Toomer. albert cook's last books are The Burden of Prophecy: Poetic Utterance in the Prophets ofthe Old Testament (Southern Illinois, 1996), and Reasons for Waking (poems, Mellen, 1996). He has in press two further books ofpoems, The Future Invests and Haiku. He has underway books on modern poetry and on Shakespeare. Kevin R. mcnamara is the author of Urban Verbs: Arts and Discourses ofAmerican Cities (Stanford, 1996). This essay and forthcoming work are part of a new project on the L.A. region in.the American imagination of utopia and dystopia. Kenneth dauber, Chair of the Department of English at SUNY Buffalo, is author of Rediscovering Hawthorne and The Idea ofAuthorship in America: Democratic Poetics from Franklin to Melville. He has published widely on issues of American literature and theory. ...