Notes on Contributors

251 Noteson Contributors Colin B. Atkinson is an associate professor of English at the University of Windsor. Jo B.Atkinson is an independent scholar and occasional instructor of women's history. Together they have published articles on Tudor devotional literature for women, Maria Edgeworth, and Lady Morgan. At present, they are preparing a modern edition of Thomas Bentley's The Monument of Matrones (1582), the first prayer book in English for women. Kathleen Clark is in the Ph.D. program in American Studies at Yale University. Her research has focused on exploring the connections between race and gender in nineteenth-century Southern culture and society. Michael Fellman, a past president of the Canadian Association for American Studies, is a professor of history at Simon Fraser University, and, for 1993-93, Marta Sutton Weeks Senior Research Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Centre. His most recent book is Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989). He is currently writing a book on the personality and cultural fit of General William T. Sherman. Jeffery Scott Harder is an associate professor of communication at Loyola University of Chicago. He received his M.S.A. in cinema studies in 1984 from Ohio University. He teaches classes and does research in documentary production and film criticism. He is currently working on documentaries about women's education, and the Balkan crisis. David Heinimann is a sessional instructor in English at the University of Northern British Columbia. "Dos Passos and the The Middle Class Liberal" is his first published article. Another on Evelyn Waugh has been accepted, and he is hopeful of publication for essays on Ernest Hemingway and Richard Rorty. Andrew Holman is a doctoral candidate in history at York University. His dissertation focuses on social history. He previously studied at McGill University. 252 Canadian Review of American Studies Mark Hulsether is an ABD in American Studies at Minnesota. He received his Masters degree in U.S. Religious History from Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary. His focus is on cultural, social, and religious history of the United State, especially since the Civil War. David Jordan teaches English at the University of British Columbia. He successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on "The Poetics of New World Regionalism" at the University of Toronto in 1991. He is presently working on a book about regionalism in American literature. Ed Kleiman is an associate professor of English at the University of Manitoba. He has published articles on, among others, Hawthorne, James, Twain, and Updike. He has also published two collections of short stories, The Immortals andA New-Found Ecstasy (NeWest Press), stories from which have appeared in numerous anthologies, including Short Story International (New York). Gaile McGregor is an itinerant scholar with degrees in both literature and sociology.She is best known for her series of semio-ethnographic studies of postfrontier societies, beginning with The Wacousta Syndrome: Exploration in the Canadian Langscape (University of Toronto, 1985). As a Fulbright Fellow in the anthropology department at Rice University in Houston, she is currently completing work on a book of essays and communitas entitled Signs of Difference: Cycles, Markers, and Mythos. Bren Ortega Murphy is an associate professor of communication at Loyola Universityof Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in communications studies in 1984 from Northwestern University. She teaches classes and does research in areas of rhetorical criticism and gender studies. She is currently working on a documentary about women's education, and a text on hegemony. Carolyn Redl teaches English in the University Transfer Program at Keyano College. She is completing a collection of her own short fiction and preparing her Ph.D. dissertation, "Representation of Ethnicity in Prairie Literature by Selected Women Writers," for publication. Her essay, "Ten Year Checkup: Feminist Criticism and the American Literary Canon," is forthcoming in the next issue of the Canadian Review of American Studies. ...