Post-Nationalist American Studies

List of Contributors

249 CONTRIBUTORS Barbara Brinson Curiel is an assistant professor of English at Humboldt State University, where she teaches American Literature, Ethnic Studies, Women’s Studies, and Creative Writing. Her poetry has been widely anthologized , including in the recent volume, The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature, ed. Lauro Flores (University of Washington Press, 1998). Her current research project is on the construction of transnational Latina identity in the literary works of U.S. Latina writers. David Kazanjian is assistant professor of English at Queens College and visiting professor of English at the Graduate School and University Center , City University of New York. He is the author of “Racial Governmentality : Thomas Jefferson and the African Colonization Movement in the United States,” Alternation 5:1 (Durban, South Africa: CSSALL, 1998), and “Notarizing Knowledge: Paranoia and Civility in Freud and Lacan,” Qui Parle 7: 1 (Fall/Winter 1993). He has also recently coauthored, with Anahid Kassabian, “Melancholic Memories and Manic Politics: Feminism , Documentary, and the Armenian Diaspora,” in Feminism and Documentary , ed. Diane Waldman and Janet Walker (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), and is currently coediting, with David L. Eng, an anthology, Loss: On the Social and Psychic Work of Mourning. Katherine Kinney teaches American Literature, African American Literature, and Film in the English department at the University of California, Riverside . She is the author of Friendly Fire: American Identity and the Literature of the Vietnam War (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming). 250 CONTRIBUTORS Steven Mailloux is professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Interpretive Conventions (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982) and Rhetorical Power (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989), editor of Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995), and coeditor (with Sanford Levinson) of Interpreting Law and Literature (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1988). His most recent book is Reception Histories: Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American Cultural Politics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998). Jay Mechling is professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis. The author of over seventy-five articles and book chapters spanning his interdisciplinary interests, from history and literary criticism to folklore and rhetorical criticism, he received the Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of California, Davis, in 1993 and the American Studies Association ’s 1998 Mary Turpie Prize for distinguished achievement in teaching and curricular development. He was chair of the California Council for the Humanities from 1994–96. John Carlos Rowe teaches the literatures and cultures of the United States and Critical Theory at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism: From the Revolution to World War II (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), The Other Henry James (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998), At Emerson’s Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), The Theoretical Dimensions of Henry James (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984), Through the Custom-House: Nineteenth-Century American Fiction and Modern Theory (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982), Henry Adams and Henry James: The Emergence of a Modern Consciousness (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1976), and the editor of “Culture” and the Problem of the Disciplines (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), New Essays on The Education of Henry Adams (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), and (with Rick Berg) The Vietnam War and American Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991). His new book, A Future for American Studies, will be published by the University of Minnesota Press in the fall of 2000. George J. Sánchez is associate professor of History and the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He also serves as the director of the Chicano/Latino Studies Program at USC. His book, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), received numerous awards, including the Robert Athearn Book Prize of the Western History Association, the Theodore Saloutus Memorial Book Award from the Immigration History Society, and the Local History Award from CONTRIBUTORS 251 the Southern California Historical Society. His latest publications include “Reading Reginald Denny: The Politics of Whiteness in the Late Twentieth Century,” American Quarterly 47 (September 1995), and “Face the Nation: Race, Immigration, and the Rise of Nativism in Late-Twentieth-Century America,” International Migration Review 31: 4 (Winter 1997...