Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Carol M. Bensick, Assistant Professor at the University of California, Riverside, has spoken at conferences, including RMMLA, on topics in colonial and nineteenth-century American literature and in the comparative history of the novel. She is the author of La Nouvelle Beatrice: Renaissance and Romance in "Rappaccini's Daughter" published by Rutgers University Press in 1985, as well as several essays on Hawthorne. The editor of Jonathan Edwards for the forthcoming Heath Anthology ofAmerican Literature, she is currently preparing the volume on the American novel, beginnings to 1865, for the G. K. Hall series, A New Critical History of the Novel. She is also interested in fiction writing. Richard Bienvenu is a Professor of History at the University of Missouri. He is coauthor of The Utopian Vision of Charles Fourier. Thomas H. Fick is an Assistant Professor of English at Southeastern Louisiana University. He has published articles on Mark Twain, James Purdy, Toni Morrison, Charles Reich, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century popular culture. He is currently working on a book on antebellum proto-realism. Robert A Fink, Professor ofEnglish at Hardin-Simmons University, directs the fiction and poetry workshops at HSU. He has had poems in recent issues of TriQuarterly and Poetry. His poetry collection, The Ghostly Hitchhiker, is scheduled to be published in August 1989 by Corona Publishing, San Antonio, Texas. Bonnie Frederick is an Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Washington State University. Her research interests include the narrative frame and nineteenth-century Argentine literature. She is currently researching the women writers of the Generation of 1880 in Argentina. Roberto Previdi Froelich obtained his M.A. in Spanish from Arizona State University in 1988. His research interests focus on Argentine literature, with an emphasis on theater and on Brazilian culture. He was a founding member of Belicia's, S.A., a Spanish-language theater group based at Arizona State. Neidy Messer teaches English at Boise State University. Her poems have appeared in a number ofNorthwest publications, and she is currently working on a book-length volume of poetry. Robert Ziegler is a Professor of Humanities at Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology. He has written widely on fin-de-siècle French literature and is the author of a dozen articles on Julien Green, among which are essays, either published or forthcoming, in Modern Language Studies, Essays in French Literature, French Review, and Romance Quarterly. ...