Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors 415 Notes on Contributors Lorelei Cederstrom isan Assistant Professor ofEnglish at Brandon University. In addition to an earlier review essay in CRevAS, she has published essays in Modern Fiction Studies, Mosaic, Atlantis and The Canadian Journal of Native Studies. For the latter she is editing a special issue on Native Literature. Evelyn J. Hinz is Professor of English at the University of Manitoba where she is also Editor of Mosaic. She is the author of numerous essays on American literature-from Roger Williams to James Dickey. Her essay ''Hierogamy vs. Wedlock: Types of Marriage Plots and Their Relationship to Genres of Prose Fiction" was awarded the William Riley Parker Prize for 1976 by the Modern Language Association of America. She is writing the authorized biography of AnaYsNin. Dale W. Jones is an Assistant Professor of English at Kendall College. He is at work on a study of the grotesque esthetic in American fiction and on essays on Nietzsche's influence on Joyce and Conrad. He served in Vietnam as a platoon leader in the 86th Land Clearing Team and in A Company of the 86th Combat Engineer Battalion from August 1967to August 1968. Nadia Khouri teaches in the Department of Humanities at Dawson College, Montreal. She has published widely in Europe and North America on such subjects as Samuel Beckett, Jack London, utopias, and the grotesque and science fiction. She is a contributing member of and consultant to Science· Fiction Studies. She is now at work on a study of American utopian and science-fiction literature of the nineteenth century. Ross Labrie is an Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. His books include The Art of Thomas Merton (1979), Howard Nemerov (1980)and lames Merrill (1982).He has published numerous essays on American authors and is presently at work on a study of the poetry of John Ashbery. Terence J. Matheson is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan. He has published essays on Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Dreiser, Hawthorne, Melville, Henry James and others and is engaged in a study of influences on Twain's The Mysterious Stranger. Jean V. Matthews is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Western Ontario. Her recent book is Rufus Choate: The Law and Civic Virtue (1980). Her major interests are the intellectual and cultural history of antebellum America and Women's history. 416 Notes on Contributors Diane McGifford has taught American and Canadian literatures at the Universities of Saskatchewan and Manitoba and this year finds herself a victim of the academy's "hiring" practices. DavidW. NobleisProfessorof History and American Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of, among other books, Historians Against History: The Frontier Thesis and the National Covenant in American Historical Writingand The ProgressiveMind; co-author (withPeter N. Carroll) of The Free and the UnFree: A New History of the United States. Joel Novek is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Winnipeg. In 1977he published Cooperation and Conflict in Dual Societies: A Comparison of French-Canadian Nationalism. In recent years his research interests have shifted to problems of technology and social change. His essays have dealt with such issues as the growth of the service sector, the effects of computerization on social institutions and the development of linkages between the universities and industry. Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Ottawa where she is Editor of THALIA: Studies in Literary Humor. In 1978she published Ernest Hemingway: L 'Education europeen de Nick Adams. She is the editor of the forthcoming Critical Essays on Jack London. W.A. Waiser is a Lecturer in History at the University of Saskatchewan. He specializes in late-nineteenth-century Canadian and the history of Natural Science. ...