Notes on Contributors

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Peter Buitenhuis is professor of English at Simon Fraser University and Associate Director of the Canadian Studies Program. Recent publications include The Great War of Words: British, American, and Canadian Propaganda and Fiction, 1914-1933 (University of British Columbia Press, 1987) and E.J. Pratt and His Works (ECW Press, 1987). His current research interests are in the AngloAmerican novel at the turn of the twentieth century, and the literature of the Canadian North. Roger L. Emerson is Professor of History at the University of Western Ontario where he has taught European and intellectual history since 1964. His research interests center on the Scottish Enlightenment about which he has published numerous essays including several on Scottish science and culture 1680-1800. He is also author of several articles on deism. Michael Greenstein is associate professor of English at the Universite de Sherbrooke. Recently he has had essays published on Canadian poetry after Aufschwitz, on Saul Bellow and on Dickens. His research interests are in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, especially in Canadian and American Jewish literature. David Ketterer is professorofEnglish at Concordia University and author of New Worlds for Old: the Apocalyptic Imagination, Science Fiction, and American Literature (1974), The Rationale of Deception in Poe (1979), Frankenstein's Creation (1979) andImprisoned ina Tesseract: TheLife and Work of James Blish (1987). I-{eis also editor of The Science Fiction of Mark Twain (1984) and is currently working on another book on Poe, to be published in 1989. Marian McKenna is professor of American History at the University of Calgary, where she teaches courses in the CivilWar and the American Constitution. Recent publications have included a study of Icelandic immigrants in Winnipeg, Manitoba and a history of the Litchfield Law School in Connecticut. She is currently working on a study of Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1937 Supreme Court Reorganization Plan. John T. O'Brien is associate professor of History at Dalhousie University. He is currently revising a manuscript study of the black community of Richmond, Virginia (1850-1870), and has published two articles from that work, one in the Journal of Southern History and the second in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Notes on Contributors 403 Julia M. Reibetanz is associate professor of English at the University of Toronto. Recent publications include A Reading of Eliot's Four Quartets (UMI Research Press, 1983) and an essay in this journal on "American Poetics of Self and History'' (Summer, 1986). Her research interests include modern and contemporary poetry and fiction, especially the fiction of Patrick White. Serge Ricard is associate professor of American Studies at the University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France, and Chairman of GRENA, his department's research centre. He has published numerous essays in both French and English in various scholarly journals. He is the author of Theodore Roosevelt et lajustification de l' imperialisme (1986)and co-editor ofHyphenated Diplomacy: European Immigration and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1914-1984 (1985), Une Institution particuliere : aspects de l'esclavage aux Etats-Unis (1986) and La Republique imperialiste: l' expansionnisme et la politique exterieure des Etats-Unis, 1885-1909 (1987). Scott Schneider is an Industrial Hygienist with the Workers' Institute for Safety and Health, a non-profit organization providing technical assistance to labor unions in the United States on occupational safety and health issues. His special areas of interest include the hazards of asbestos, formaldehyde, wood dust, and back injuries in the workplace. Craig Simpson is associate professor of History at the University of Western Ontario and author of A Good Southerner: The Life of Henry A. Wise of Virginia (University of North Carolina Press, 1985). He is currently at work on a history of secession. Ian Steele is professor of History at the University of Western Ontario and author of several books on early American and British imperial history. His most recent monograph, The English Atlantic 1675-1740: An Exploration of Communication and Community, was published by Oxford University Press in 1986. A book on the massacre at Fort William Henry in 1757 is forthcoming next year from the same publisher. ...