Notes on Contributors

Noteson Contributors 141 Notes on Contributors JohnAbbott is an Associate Professor of History at Algoma University College wherehe teaches Canadian and U.S. History. His research field encompasses the history of Canadian and U.S. education, with special emphasis on the comparativeaspects and education in primary resource based communities. J.M.Bumsted is Professor of History at the University of Manitoba. He is co-authorof What Must I Do to be Saved? The Great A wakening in Colonial America(1976). Ann Davis is a freelance art curator based in Delaware, Ontario. She is a seniorresearcher, in charge of museums and heritage, for the Federal Cultural Review Committee. She has mounted numerous exhibitions with catalogues andhasdone extensive reviewing in Quill and Quire, The Canadian Forum, The CanadianHistorical Review, The Gazette (Quarterly of the Canadian .\!useumsAssociation), RACAR and Vie des Arts. AnitaClair Fellman is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Women's Studies at SimonFraser University where she is also the author of a Distance Education Courseon the History of Women in North America. She is co-author of MakingSense of Self: Instructing the Public About the Body and the Mind inLateNineteenth-Centw:v America (1981). ~1arshallGilliland is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan. His research interests are in American literature, utopian literatureand autobiography. MichaelW.Higgins is Assistant Head, Department of English, St. Michael's College School, Toronto. He has published essays on Blake, Merton, Chestertonand Ruskin in The American Benedictine Review, Pax, Cistercian Studiesand The Chesterton Review. Forthcoming in Cistercian Studies is hisessay,"The Gyrovague and the Quest for Integration: A Jungian Reading ofthe Poetry of Thomas Merton." He has written, narrated and interviewed fora number of programs in the C.B.C. Ideas series. He is at work on a projectconcerning the opposition to ''technologism" and the shared pastoral visionof Merton, Margaret Avison and R.S. Thomas. PaulF.Lachance is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Ottawa. He has published essays on the migration of Saint-Domingue refugees to Cuba and Louisiana in the Revue de la Societe hai'tienne d'histoire, de geographie et de geologie, and on the slave trade as a political question in Louisianabetween 1786 and 1809 in Plantation Society in the Arnericas. He i~currently working on a study of social change and French cultural persistencein New Orleans. 142 Notes on Contributors Judie Newman is Lecturer in the School of English Language and Literature at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. She has published essaysonSaul Bellow in the Durham University Journal and the Journal of American Studies, and on Nadine Gordimer in Critique: Studies in Modem Fiction. She is at work on a book on Saul Bellow and History, after which sheplans a study of Nadine Gordimer. Veronica Strong-Boag is an Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University. Besides numerous essays and reviews. she has edited with an introduction A Woman with a Pw7JOse: The Diaries of' Elizabeth Smith Shortt (1980), and is the author (with Beth Light) of "True Daughters of the North": Research and Reference Bibliograpl{I' of Canadian Women'.vHistory (1980),and of The Parliament of Women: The National Council of Women of Canada, 1893-1929 (1976). Leon Surette is Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. He has published many essays and reviews on modern poetry and Canadian literature, and is the author of A Light from Eleusis: A Study of fau Pounds Cantos (1979). Gilles Vandal is an Assistant Professor in American History at l'Universit~ de Sherbrooke. He has published essays in Louisiana History and Revuede la Louisiane. Forthcoming is his book, The New Orleans Riot of 1866:The Anatomy of a Tragedy. ...