Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Diane C. LeBlanc teaches women's studies, literature, and creative writing at the University ofWyoming. Her article on Denise Levertov's "Pig Dreams" appeared in Essays in Literature, and she has recently published a collection ofpoetry , Hope in Zone Four. Elizabeth Jane Wa l l Hinds is chair ofthe English Department at the University of Northern Colorado where she also teaches American literature . She has written a book on Charles Brockden Brown, Private Property, and has also published several articles on Brown and on Thomas Pynchon. Her other most recent article on Pynchon will appear soon in American Literary History. Annette Bennington McElhiney serves as a Professor of English /Women's Studies at the Metropolitan State College of Denver. One offive author/editors of Thinking Women: Women's Studies (1993), co-editor ofBeyond Portia: Women, Law, and Literature in the UnitedStates (1997), she is also author of other articles on women and literature. MJ Robinson is pursuing a Ph.D in Media Ecology in the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University. She holds degrees in Cinema Studies, English Literature, and Film Production. Currently, Robinson teaches expository writing and the history ofcommunication at NYU and works as a film archivist for the City of New York. Her dissertation is about the evolution ofthe "film school" in theAmerican University and its relationship to changes in both the philosophy ofundergraduate education and the film industry. Abdellatif Akbib, Chair ofthe Department of English at the University ofTétouan, Morocco, was a Fulbright Research Scholar in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Washington State University during the fall semester of 1999 working on the American short story. He is the first Moroccan to write and publish prose fiction in English: two collections ofshort stories — Graffiti (1997) and Between the Lines (1998). He is currently working on a third, based on his experiences at Washington State University. SPRING 2000 + ROCKY MOUNTAIN REVIEW * 149 ...