Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Robert M. Crunden is Professor of History and Director of the Program in American Civilization at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Ministers of Reform: The Progressives’ Achievement in American Civilization, 1889–1920 (Basic Books, 1982), and the editor of The Superfluous Men: Conservative Critics of American Culture, 1900–1945 (Texas UP, Austin, 1977). He is currently working on “The American Encounter with European Modernism, 1885–1917.”
Patrick Deane is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Aricles on David Jones’s long poem, The Anathemata will shortly appear in University of Toronto Quarterly, 57:2 (Winter) 1987–8), and in David Jones: Man and Poet, due in 1988 from the National Poetry Foundation at the University of Maine, Orono. He is working on strategies of linguistic extension in a number of modern long poems.
Michael Fellman is Professor of History at Simon Fraser University. He has recently completed Inside War: The Guerilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War, which will be forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
Joseph Griffin is Associate Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of The Small Canvas: An Introduction to Drieser’s Short Stories (1985). His current research interests are Willa Cather, James T. Farrell, Ernest J. Gaines and Edith Wharton.
William G. Heath is Associate Professor of English at Lakehead University. His recent publications include two chapters in The Transcendentalists: A Review of Research and Criticism, Joel Myerson, ed. (Modern Language Association of America, 1984); a review article, “Robert Frost: Faith and Art,” in CRAS (Fall, 1985); and an essay on E.A. Robinson in the Laurentian University Review (February, 1986). His current scholarly interests include Emerson, Thoreau, Dickinson and Frost.
John N. Ingham is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. His most recent publications include Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders, four volumes (Greenwood, 1983), and guest editor of “Thernstrom’s Poverty and Progress: A Retrospective Look After Twenty Years,” in Social Science History, Spring, 1986. He has just completed a manuscript on the nineteenth-century iron and steel industry entitled, Masters of the Mill, which is under consideration for publication.
Ross Labrie is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of The Art of Thomas Merton (Texas Christian University Press, 1979), Howard Nemerov (Twayne Publishers, 1980), and James Merrill (Twayne Publishers, 1982) in addition to two dozen articles on American literature. He is currently working on a book about the prose and poetry of Daniel Berrigan.
David L. Lightner is Associate Professor of History at the University of Alberta. His most recent publications are “Simon Newton Dexter and the Panic of 1857,” to be published in Mid-America in 1988, and “The Door to the Slave Bastille: The Abolitionist Assault upon the Interstate Slave Trade, 1833–1839,” forthcoming in Civil War History.
Ross G. Woodman is Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Apocalyptic Vision in the Poetry of Shelley (University of Toronto Press, 1964), James Reaney (McLelland and Stewart, 1971), and Jack Chambers (Coach House Press, 1967). He is also the author of numerous articles on the poetry of English Romantics and Canadian Art. He is presently working on Romanticism and the Death of the Gods.
