The Contributors

THE CONTRIBUTORS Jennifer GiLLAN is an assistant professor at Bentley College. With Maria Mazziotti Gillan, she co-edited three anthologies for Penguin Books, including Unsettling America (1994). Her article on Sherman Alexie appeared in American Literature (1996). carL p. eby is an assistant professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Beaufort. His book, Hemingway's Fetishism: Psychoanalysis and the Minor ofManhood, will be published in December by SUNY Press. richard levesque is a doctoral candidate at the University ofCalifornia , Riverside. He is writing his dissertation on Hollywood novels and novelists of the 1920s and 1930s. laura wyrick is a doctoral student at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she is writing a dissertation on absence'in literature and theory. This article comes from a book she is currently completing on race in the American horror film. DEBRA SHOSTAK is an associate professor ofEnglish at The College of Wooster and chair of the department. She has published articles on Philip Roth, Maxine Hong Kingston, and John Irving and án interview with Tim O'Brien. An essay on Operation Shylock recently appeared in Contemporary Literature, and another, on The Breast, is forthcoming in Twentieth Century Literature. She is at work on a project examing representations ofsubjectivity in Philip Roth's fiction. ...