Contributors

C o n t r ib u t o r s E s s a y i s t s M. K. Johnson recently completed his Ph.D. in English at the University of Kansas, where he is currently teaching. His article on Oscar Micheaux is part of a larger project on responses to the American frontier and westward expansion in African American lit­ erature. His previous publications have ranged from an examination of photographic representations of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (published in Semiotica) to a discussion of the medieval autobiogra­ phy The Book of Margery Kempe (published in Womens Studies). John P. O ’Grady teaches in the English Department at Boise State University and is the editor of the Western Writers Series. He is the author of Pilgrims to the Wild and Grave Goods. Ted Olson earned his Ph.D. in English at the University of Mississippi. He is Assistant Professor of English at Union College in Barbourville, Kentucky, where he teaches courses in American literature, world literature, English composition, and Appalachian cultural history. His master’s thesis for the University of Kentucky was a study of Robinson Jeffers’s formative poetry. In 1998, he published Blue Ridge Folklife. Heinz Tschachler is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, and the author of Ökologie und Arkadien, a study of naturistic ideologies in North American cultural criticism, of Lewis Mumford’s Reception in German Translation and Criticism, and of Prisoners of the Nominal; or, Uses of American Studies. He has also published numerous essays and is the editor of two books on cultural studies. A r t i s t s Sabine Barcatta is a fine arts photographer residing in Logan, Utah. She enjoys tampering with photographic realism. Most of her images are computer manipulated. Her work has been accepted in a variety of fine arts competitions, including one that was to be viewed as a virtual gallery. WAL 33(3) FALL 1998 N ick Koudis is a photographer living and working in New York City. He uses computers to create photo montages with special effects. He enjoys creating images with a science fiction theme like the one fea­ tured in this issue. Irving Norman (1906-1989) was born in Poland and emigrated to the United States in 1923. In 1940, he settled in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he began teaching himself to paint. In 1945, he attended the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Between 1945 and 1946, he traveled and studied painting in Mexico and at the Art Students League, New York. Using images of precisely drawn idols, robots, and other imaginary machines, Norman devel­ oped complex visual narratives, which frequently have political, social, and moral overtones. Leigh A. Wiener (1929-1993) photographed hundreds of promi­ nent people in his fifty-year career as a professional photographer and photojoumalist. His subjects included actors, actresses, sports legends, singers, playwrights, poets, politicians, musicians, writers, visual artists, and heads of state, including every U.S. president from Truman to Reagan. Leigh Wiener’s photographs are in the perma­ nent collections of the national portrait gallery and several national museums and have been featured in numerous books and publica­ tions, including five books he authored. ...