Notes on Contributors

174 Cmzadran Review of American Stu.dies Notes on Contributors PhilipBeidleris Professor of English at the University of Alabama and author of American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam (1982) and Re-Writing America: Vietnam Authors in Their Generation (1991). His Scriptures for a Generation: What We Were Reading in the '60s is forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press in November 1994. He is working on a new book about the World War II classic and American remembering. Dennis Duffy teaches English at the University of Toronto. His A World Under Sentence: John Richardson and the Interior will appear in early 1995. Dirk Hoerder teaches North American social history at the University of Bremen, Germany. His areas of interest are European labour migration in the Atlantic economies, worldwide migration system, migrants' experiences as reflected in Canadian immigrant autobiographies. he has bene director of the Labor Migration project. His publication include Distant Magnets: expectations and Realities in the Immigrant Experience (1993). He has recently taught at York University, Toronto, and is preparing a study on autobiographical writings of immigrant men and women in Canada, 1880s1930s . James P. Hull is a member of the department of history at Okanagan University College and is an associate of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. He has published articles on the history of science and industry, especially the North American pulp and paper industry. FredMatthews,who taught history and humanities at York University from 1967-91, is the author of Quest for an American Sociology (1977), Northem Califomia Railroad, 2 vols. (1983, 1984); and many essays in cultural history, most recently in the Cahiers de Recherche Sociologique and the Canadian Journal of History. Canadian Review of Amencan Studies 175 Aubrey Neal is a stipendiary lecturer in modern world history at the University of Manitoba. his work has appeared in The Canadian ]oumal ol Nt1,ti11e Studies, The Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory and Newest Review. Aubrey is a professional bass soloist and has done music reviews for CBC radio in Winnipeg. His current research project is Ji.irgen Habermas's Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. Robert White, first editor of The Canadian Review al American Studies, is a semi-retired professor of humanities at York University. Author of numerous articles and a book on John Peale Bishop, and is currently most interested in fiction by contemporary writers of the American South. ...