Notes on Contributors

218 Nates on Contributors Canadian Review of American Studies/ Revue canadienne d'etudes ameiiaiines SusanKollin is assistant professor of English at Montana State University in Bozeman where she teaches classes in American literature, literature of the American West, and environmental criticism. Her article is part of a larger book-length project she is completing on Alaska and the politics of nature. GermainLacasse est historien, auteur de plusieurs livres sur les debuts du cinema, dont uHistoires de scopes. Le cinema muet au Quebec" (1989). II est charge d'enseignement au departement d'histoire de l'art de l'Universite de Montreal, et chercheur-adjoint au Grafics (Groupe de recherche sur l'avenement et la formation des institutions cinematographique et scenique). Laura J. Murray is assistant professor at Queen's University where she teaches American and Native American literatures. She has recently completed an edition of the writings of Joseph Johnson, an eighteenth- century Mohegan Christian, for University of Massachusetts Press, and is currently researching ideas about Native American languages, translation, and nation in early nineteenth-century America. ChristopherPhelpstaught American history at Simon Fraser University in the 1995-96 academic year and is now visiting assistant professor of history at the University of Oregon. He has written for left history, Science & Society, and Monthly Review, and is an editor of Against the Current. His book Young Sidney Hook: Revolution and Democracy, Marxism and Pragrnatisrn will soon be published by Cornell University Press. Phil Ryan is assistant professor in the School of Public Administration of Carleton University. He is the author of The Fall and fuse of the Market in Sandinista Nicaragua (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995). Mark Simpson is a postdoctoral fellow in the English department at the University of Alberta. His current research addresses the place of the post- Canadian Review of American Studies/ Revuecanadienned'etudes americaines 219 card in histories of tourism and immigration in North America at the turn of the century. This work reflects his ongoing interest in travel and the politics of mobility in modern cultural life. An avid fan of seven-inch records, Mark misses basketball in North Carolina and plays more pool than is good for him. BruceTucker is associate professor in the department of history, University of Windsor and an associate editor of the Canadian Review of American Studies. His articles on American cultural and intellectual history have appeared in the New England Quarterly, Prospects, the Canadian Review of American Studies, and Early American Literature. He is currently working on a study of the urban Appalachian ethnic movement in Cincinnati. ...