Contributors
- Contributors
Suzy Anger is assistant professor of English at the University of British Columbia. She has published articles on nineteenth-century literature and edited a collection of essays, Knowing the Past: Victorian Literature and Culture (2001). Her book Victorian Interpretation is forthcoming from Cornell University Press.
Susan Naomi Bernstein is assistant professor of English and a developmental writing specialist at the University of Houston–Downtown. She has taught basic writing courses linked with reading and American studies for UHD’s Learners Community. She is the author of the textbook A Brief Guide to the Novel (2002) and editor of Teaching Developmental Writing: Background Readings (2nd ed. forthcoming, Bedford/St. Martin’s). She has published in the journal Teaching English in the Two-Year College and has an essay, “A Limestone Way of Learning,” forthcoming in a recent issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. In addition, she works as a writer in residence in a Houston public elementary school for Houston’s Writers in the Schools program.
Martin Bickman is professor of English and President’s Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Throughout his career he has been active at all levels of education, from reading classes in Boston’s inner city to high school in rural Kentucky. He has just published Minding American Education: Reclaiming the Tradition of Active Learning (2003) and is also the author of American Romantic Psychology: Emerson, Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville and Walden: Volatile Truths.
Christine Chaney, assistant professor of English at Seattle Pacific University, specializes in teaching nineteenth-century British literature, the comparative history of ideas, and literary theory. While a graduate student at the University of Washington, she served as associate director of the Preparing Future Faculty Program (funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts), and she continues to serve on the advisory board for UW’s new graduate teaching certificate program. She is completing her term as reviews editor of Pedagogy. [End Page 163]
Heidi Estrem is assistant professor and assistant coordinator of the First-Year Writing Program at Eastern Michigan University. She teaches first-year and upper-level writing, pedagogy for preservice teachers, and language, writing, and pedagogy for graduate students.
Gail E. Hawisher is professor of English and founding director of the Center for Writing Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in writing studies. Her most recent project, with Cynthia Selfe, is a book-length, multiyear study titled Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives of Literacy from the United States (forthcoming 2004).
Beth Kalikoff is assistant professor at the University of Washington, Tacoma. She writes about popular literature and assessment as democracy. Her Murder and Moral Decay in Victorian Popular Literature won a Choice Outstanding Book Award, and her poetry has also won national prizes.
AnaLouise Keating is associate professor of women’s studies at Texas Woman’s University, where she teaches undergraduate introductory courses and graduate courses on feminist/womanist theory, U.S. women of color, and related issues. She previously taught U.S. literature and composition at universities in New Mexico and Michigan. Her most recent book is This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation (coedited with Gloria E. Anzaldúa). She has published a number of articles exploring the intersections between pedagogy, transformation, and “race.”
Roger Lundin is Blanchard Professor of English at Wheaton College (Illinois), where he teaches nineteenth-century American literature, modern European literature in translation, and literary theory. He has received both the Junior Teacher of the Year (1984) and Senior Teacher of the Year (1995) awards at Wheaton. Lundin is the author and editor of numerous books on nineteenth-century American literature, hermeneutics, and the intersection of religion and literature; they include Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief (1998), The Promise of Hermeneutics (with Anthony Thiselton and Clarence Walhout, 1999), and The Culture of Interpretation: Christian Faith and the Postmodern World (1993). He currently directs a multiyear research project in American literature and religion funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and cosponsored by the Erasmus Institute at the University of Notre Dame. [End Page 164]
M. Kilian McCurrie is a member of the English department at Columbia College Chicago...
