Notes on Contributors

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Jeffery W. Fenn is assistant professor of English at Memorial University. His recent publications include an essay on the dramatic responses to Vietnam. His book, Theater under Stress: American Drama and the Vietnam War, willbe published in 1991. Margaret M.R. Kellow is a doctoral candidate at Yale University and an instructor in the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario, where she teaches American history and the the history of women. Lauriat Lane, Jr., is professor of English and American literature at the University of New Brunswick. He has recently published notes and reviews on Dickens, Melville, Dickinson and MacLeish, and is now writing on four of MacLeish's longer poems. Christopher Morris is a doctoral candidate at the University of Florida, writing a dissertation on the economic, social, political and cultural evolution of the Vicksburg, Mississippi, region, 1TI0-1860. His recent publications include an essay in the Journal of Social History (Fall 1988): "An Event in Community Organization: The Mississippi Slave Insurrection Scare of 1835." Renate Peters is an instructor in the Department of French at the University of Saskatchev.ran She has published articles on twentieth-century French literature and philosophy in such journals as Obliques, French Review and Dalhousie French Studies, and is working on a comparative study of the Judith myth. Sheila Rabillard is assistant professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. She has recently published articles on modem drama in Theatre Journal, Theatre Three and Modern Drama, contributed to a collection of essays on Sam Shepard and is completing a book that explores the demands made upon the audience by modem dramatists. Richard M. Reid is associate professor of history at the University of Guelph. His most recent publications include The UpperOttawa Valley, 18~1855 (Carleton University Press, 1990),and essays in Urban History Review and Historical Journal of Massachusetts; he is now doing research for a book on North Carolina's black CivilWar soldiers. James Michael Russell teaches history at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He has written several articles on Atlanta history, as well asAtlanta, 1847-1890:City Building in the Old South and the New (Louisiana State University Press, 1988), and is at work on a book on southern homicide and the violent ideal in Charleston, during the period 1821-1930.• Leslie Sanders is associate professor of humanities and English at York University, and the author of The Development of Black Theatre in America (Louisiana State University Press 1988). With George Bass she is editing Langston Hughes' plays. Craig Simpson is associate professor of history at the University of Westm Ontario. He is the author of A Good Southerner: The Life of Henry A. Wise of Virginia (University of North Carolina Press, 1985), and is working on a history of recession, tentatively entitled The Southern Re-.•oJution. Reed Ueda is associate professor of history at Tufts University, where he teaches courses on social history and immigration history. He has written Avenues to Adulthood: The Origins of the High School and Social Mobility in an American Suburb (Cambridge University Press, 1987) and was research editor of The Han 1 ard Encyclopedia of American E1hnic Groups (Harvard University Press, 1980). He is working on a comparative study of immigration from Europe and Asia. ...