Notes on Contributors

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Frederick Asals is associate professor of English at New College, University of Toronto. His publications include Flannery O'Connor: The Imagination of Extremity and several articles on O'Connor. Ruth A. Banes is associate professor of American Studies, University of South Florida. Her articles about American autobiography, portrait photography and popular culture have appeared in various journals. Her essays "Southern Autobiography" and "Blues Singing Women," are in the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (1989), and she is completing a book entitled Southern Women in Country Music for the University of North Carolina Press. Curtis Cole is a research fellow in the Faculty of Law of the University of Western Ontario. Forthcoming publications include In the Eye of the Storm: A History of Osgoode Hall Law Schoo~ 1889-1989 (1991), essays and a review. He is working on a monograph on the history of Canadian corporate legal practice. John Cumbler is professor of history at the University of Louisville. His most recent book isA Social History of Economic Decline, Rutgers University Press, and his recent research 1son environmental history. Henry C. Kenski is associate professor in the departments of Communication and Political Science, University of Arizona. His publications include work on American elections and on public policy, a book entitled The Hidden Treasure: The Evolution of Groundwater Policy, and several articles on American Catholic political attitudes. Ed Kleiman is associate professor of English at the University of Manitoba. He is author of several articles, among them "The Wizardry of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Seven Gables as Fairy Tale and Parable," as well as of two collections of short stories: The Immonals (1980) and A New-Found Ecstasy (1988). He is revising the initial draft of his third book of stories. Daniel C. Littlefield is associate professor of history at the University of Illinois (UrbanaChampaign ). His research interests concern the development of slave culture in eighteenthcentury South Carolina. His publications on this topic include: Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slai•e Trade in Colonial South Carolina (1981) and "Continuity and Change in Slave Culture: South Carolina and the West Indies," Southern Studies, XXXVI (Fall 1987). Alan Leander MacGregor is associate professor of English at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. He teaches and publishes in nineteenth-century American and British literature. He is now at work on a book on the historical novel, he also works on Puritanism, detective fiction, and sexves as book review editor for the journal Manoa. I.S. MacLaren, associate professor of English at the University of Alberta, studies the literature and art of exploration and travel, and the literature of early Canada. Recent publications include an essay in the Papersof the Bibliographical Society of Canada (27 [1988]). The American An Journal 21:2 (Spring 1989) is devoted to his work on painter/traveller Paul Kane. Stephen J. Randall, is Texaco & Lincoln-McKay Professor of American Studies at the University of Calgary. His most recent book is United States Foreign Oil Policy, For Profit and Security (1985); his current research is into U.S. foreign relations with Colombia since Independence, for a series on U.S.-Latin American relations, University of Georgia Press. Nicholas Ruddick, associate professor of English at the University of Regina, teaches courses in science fiction and the fantastic. He is author of ChristopherPriest (Stannont, 1989) and of articles on modern British and American authors. He is writing a book for Greenwood Press on British science fiction, and editing the 1990 conference volume for the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. ...