Notes on Contributors

Noteson Contributors 237 Notes on Contributors PeterBuitenhuis is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University. In addition to his book on Henry James, he has published widely in American Studies.He is now at work on a book on the literature of World War I. John N. Ingham is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Iron Barons: A Social Analysis of an American Urban Elite, 1874-1965(1978). His essays have appeared in the Journalof American HistOJJ, the Journal of Urban Hist01:v, Mid-America, andthe Pennsylvania Magazine of Histo1:v and Biography. Robert Kroetsch is Professor of English at the University of Manitoba. His publications include six novels and six books of poems. Former co-editor of bounda1y2, he received the Governor General's Award for The Studhorse Man(1969). PhilipLawson is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at Dalhousie University.He has written a biography of George Grenville for Oxford UniversityPress and has contributed articles to William and Ma1:iiQuarter(l', The HistoricalJournal and The Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research.. Heis at present researching a study of Britain and New France. 1750-74. Gerald F. Manning is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Guelph.He has published essays on Evelyn Waugh and Saul Bellow in English Studies in Canada. He is currently at work on essays on William Golding andJoyce Carol Oates. A professional musician. he does freelance music criticismfor Opera Canada. Kerry McSweeney is Professor of English at Queen·s University and codirector of McGill-Queen·s University Press. He is spending 1982-83 at University College Oxford. where he is finishing a book on George Eliot and an edition of the critical writings of Angus Wilson. His Four Contempora ,y Novelists: Angus Wilson. Brian Moore. John Fowles. V. S. Naipaul waspublished in January. His Tennyson and Swinburne as Romantic Naturalistswas published in 1981. Lance Olsen is a graduate student in English at the University of Virginia. Heiswriting a dissertation on the fantastic in postmodernist fiction. DanielJ. O'Neil is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Universityof Arizona. In addition to numerous articles on North American and WesternEuropean politics. he has published a book. Three Perennial Thernes ofAnti-C olonialism. 238 Notes on Contributors Stephen Snyder is an Associate Professor in Film Studies at the University of Manitoba. His publications include essays on Fellini and on American writers in Hollywood. He has published a book on the films of Pasolini. J.Richard Wagner taught Canadian politics for fifteen years at the University of Arizona and published widely in the area of Canadian-American relations. Recently he moved into the arena of international business. Gary F.Waller isProfessor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University. He isthe author of several books, among them Dreaming America: Obsession and Transcendence in the Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates (1979). He is presently at work on contemporary literary theory. News Notes JAMES BRASCH and JACQUELINE TAVERNIER-COURBIN, long-time members of the CAAS and contributors to CRevAS, were both elected to the Executive Committee of the Hemingway Society at its general meeting held in Los Angeles in December 1982.James Brasch was also appointed General Chairman of the next biennial meeting of the society. THE AGRICULTURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, University of MissouriColumbia , and Soil Conservation Service announce a symposium on the history of soil and water conservation to be held at Columbia, Missouri, May 24-26, 1984.Susan Flader of the University and Douglas Helms of SCS are the symposium coordinators. Please submit proposals and requests for information to Douglas Helms, Historian, SCS-USDA, P.O. Box 2890. Washington, D.C. 20013, by September 10, 1983. ...