Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Allen E M. Parker, Assistant Professor ofHumanities at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Prescott, Arizona campus), earned her Doctor ofArts in English degree at Idaho State University. She previously earned M.A.s in Creative Writing (San Francisco State University) and Religion and the Arts (School of Theology at Claremont). Greg Grewell ¡sa Ph.D. candidate at Washington State University. His dissertation re-examines the influence of Emerson and other transcendentalists and some romantics on Melville's novels. He has co-edited a reader/rhetoric entitled Transitions: Lives in America and has published, among other works, an interview with novelist John Barth. He is currently teaching in Tucson, Arizona, while completing his dissertation. Steven F. Butterman ¡san Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University ofMiami. He earned his B.A. in Spanish and International Affairs at the University of Colorado-Boulder and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Portuguese at the University ofWisconsin-Madison. His research interests and latest publications address politics and sexuality in contemporary Brazilian poetry and popular music; postcolonial Lusophone African narrative ; and post-Franco Spanish women writers. María Asunción Gómez es profesora en Florida International University (Miami) donde enseña y coordina los cursos de lengua española. Además de sus contribuciones en revistas como Bulletin ofHispanic Studies, Letras Péninsules,JournalofInterdisciplinary Literary Studies, Critica Hispánica, Anales de L· Literatura Española Contemporánea, ? Estreno, entre otras, es autora del libro Delescenario a lapantalla (University Press of North Carolina). 134 « ROCKY MOUNTAIN REVIEW * FALL 2001 Albrecht Classen, Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona, has published close to 30 books and about 260 articles on medieval, early modern, and also some modern topics. Most recently he published a monograph on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century songbooks (2001), a textbook on German women's literature from 900-1800 (2000), and a volume on The Book and the Magic ofReading in the Middle Ages (1999). A new book on Communication in MedievalGerman Literature, an edition oflate-medieval German women's religious poetry, and a volume on Meeting the Foreign in the MiddleAges are forthcoming. He is Vice President and President Elect of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. FALL 2001 * ROCKY MOUNTAIN REVIEW * 135 ...