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xi Contributors Matthew Abraham is an assistant professor of writing, rhetoric, and discourse at DePaul University in Chicago. His work has appeared in Cultural Critique, the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, the Journal of Advanced Composition, College Composition and Communication, Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture, and Postmodern Culture. He is currently completing a book titled Controversial Academic Scholarship and the Question of Palestine. He was the winner of the 2005 Rachel Corrie Courage in the Teaching of Writing Award. Nathan Abrams is director of film studies at Bangor University. He is author of four books, Commentary Magazine, 1945–1959: A Journal of Significant Thought and Opinion (London and Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2006), Containing America: Cultural Production and Consumption in Fifties America, coedited with Julie Hughes (Birmingham: Birmingham University Press, 2000; London and New York: Continuum, 2006), Studying Film, coauthored with Ian Bell and Jan Udris (London: Arnold, 2001), and Jews and Sex (Nottingham: Five Leaves Press,2008).HehasjustcompletedafurthermanuscriptexaminingNormanPodhoretz , Commentary magazine, and the rise and fall of the neoconservatives. Morris Dickstein is distinguished professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he is also senior fellow of the Center for the Humanities, which he founded in 1993. He teaches courses in English Romantic poetry, modern fiction, film studies, and American cultural history. His books include Keats and His Poetry (1971), Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties (1977, 1997), and Double Agent: The Critic and Society (1992). He has edited The Revival of Pragmatism (1998) and contributed a study of postwar fiction to the Cambridge History of American Literature (vol. 7, 1999). His most recent books are Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945–1970 (Cambridge: Harvard, 2002) and A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005). In the last few years his essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Partisan Review, the American Scholar, Raritan, the Nation, Literary Imagination , Dissent, and the Times Literary Supplement (London). He was a founder and board member (1983–1989) of the National Book Critics Circle, served as vice Morris_FINAL.indb xi Morris_FINAL.indb xi 9/25/2008 8:13:34 AM 9/25/2008 8:13:34 AM chair of the New York Council for the Humanities from 1997 to 2001, and was president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics in 2006–2007. He was a contributing editor of Partisan Review from 1972 to 2003. Nathan Glazer is a professor of education and sociology, emeritus, at Harvard University and has also taught at the University of California at Berkeley. He was strongly associated with the New York Intellectuals and with the early neoconservatives in their criticism of the efficacy of government solutions. An early critic of affirmative action, he later grew to recognize the necessity of such programs and the value of multiculturalism. A long-time editor of the Public Interest , he has published in Commentary, the New Republic, and elsewhere. His many books include The Lonely Crowd with David Riesman (1950), Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City with Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1963), We Are All Multiculturalists Now (1998), and most recently From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture’s Encounter with the American City (2007). Ethan Goffman is senior editor for ProQuest’s Discovery Guide series and editorial associate for Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy. He is the author of Imagining Each Other: Blacks and Jews in Recent Literature (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000) and has published in Grist, E: The Environmental Magazine, Contemporary Literature, Shofar, the Indiana Review, Melus, Neue Germanistik, Dissent, and elsewhere. From 1987 to 1989 he was editorial assistant at Dissent magazine. He is designer of the award-winning board game AmuseAmaze. Currently, he is coediting with John Rodden a book of interviews with Irving Howe. Meredith Goldsmith is an assistant professor of English at Ursinus College. She has published a number of articles on early twentieth-century American writers, including Edith Wharton, Nella Larsen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Dorothy West, and coedited Middlebrow Moderns: Popular U.S. Women Writers of the 1920s (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003). She is writing a book on Edith Wharton’s critique of the rise of consumer culture in the 1920s United States. Eugene Goodheart is Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Brandeis University. He is...