Notes on Contributors

Noteson Contributors 135 Notes on Contributors RuthA. Banes is an Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of South Florida. Her research interests are American autobiography, American social-intellectual history, and regionalism in American culture. Shehas published essays in Biography, The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Perspectives on the American South and Turn of the Century Women. Currently she is writing a book about "Southern Women in Country Music" for the University of North Carolina Press. She contributed "Mythology in Music: The Ballad of Loretta Lynn" to CRevAS (16/3). Gorman Beauchamp is an Associate Professor of Humanities in the College ofEngineering at the University of Michigan. He has pub1ished widely in the journals and, most recently, is the author oflack London (1984). FrancisT. Butts teaches history at Queen's University. Currently, he isworking on an in-depth study of Perry Miller which will include portions of the present essay. Stanley Fogel is this year Visiting Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser University. His most recent publication is A Tale of Two Countries: Contemporary Fiction in English Canada and the U.S.A. (1985). Since receiving the Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario in 1980, Keith Louise Fulton has taught twentieth-century literature at the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg. She is interested in social and literary fictions. In addition to reviews of contemporary Canadian writing, she has written essayson Faulkner, E.M. Forster, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Adrienne Rich. She is currently continuing her research on Millay. David D. Harvey is expecting publication of his book, Americans in Canada thisyear. He isnow writing a biography of his aunt, BlancheH. Dow (1893-1973). Gordon Martel is Associate Professor of History at Royal Roads Military College. He is editor of The International History Review, of Studies in BritishImperial Histo1J1 and The Origins of the Second World WarRevisited. He isauthor of Imperial Diplomacy and The Origins of the First World War. George Monteiro is Professor of English at Brown University. His specialty is nineteenth- and twentiP,th-century American literature. Kobert Thacker hold~ .i1ePh.D. in English from the University of Manitoba, where he was Managing Editor of CRevAS. He is Associate Director of the Canadian Studies Program at St. Lawrence University and his scholarshipdealing mainly with the literary West and Canadian fiction-has appeared in such journals as Journal of Popular Culture, Western American Literature, GreatPlains Quarterly,Journal of Canadian Studies and the American Review of Canadian Studies. He is at work on a book on the effect of prairie/plains landscape on narrative technique. ...