Notes on Contributors

H. David Brumble-- Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, he is currently writing a book on tribal warrior cultures and narratives.

Kathleen Diffley--Author of Where My Heart Is Turning Ever: Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform, 1861-1876 (1992), she is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa, where she is editing a collection of Civil War stories in the popular wartime press and working on a study of national memory and the literary marketplace during the 1860s and 1870s.

Roland Greene--Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of Oregon, he has most recently authored Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas (University of Chicago Press, 1999).

George E. Haggerty--Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, he has recently published Professions of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literature (1995), coedited with Bonnie Zimmerman; Unnatural Affections: Women and Fiction in the Later Eighteenth Century (1998), and Men in Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century (1999). He has also edited Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia, which is forthcoming.

W. C. Harris--He is completing his Ph.D. in English at The Johns Hopkins University and has previously published essays on Walt Whitman as well as animal stories.

Susan Hegeman--She teaches in the Department of English at the University of Florida. Her book Patterns for America: Modernism and the Concept of Culture was recently published by Princeton University Press. Her current project is entitled "Working Girls: Women, Modernism, and the Marketplace," a portion of which, on Anita Loos, appeared several years ago in American Literary History.

Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds--English Department Chair and Associate Professor of English at the University of Northern Colorado, she is author of Private Property: Charles Brockden Brown's Gendered Economics of Virtue (1997), along with several articles on Brown, Thomas Pynchon, and popular cultural studies topics.

Sharon P. Holland--Assistant Professor in the Department of English at SUNY-Albany, she is author of Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (Duke University Press, forthcoming).

Susan Kollin--She is assistant professor of English at Montana State University. The essay published here is part of her recently completed book Nature's State: Alaska and the Ecologies of Nationalism (forthcoming). She is currently working on a critical study of anti-Westerns in fiction and film.

Jeffrey Melnick--An Assistant Professor of American Studies at Babson College, his first book, A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song, was published in 1999 by Harvard University Press. His book on the Leo Frank case is forthcoming from the University Press of Mississippi.

Cristanne Miller--The William M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor of English at Pomona College, she is the author of Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar (1987) and Marianne Moore: Questions of Authority (1995), and has edited several books, including Feminist Measures: Soundings in Poetry and Theory (with Lynn Keller; 1994), The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore (with Bonnie Costello and Celeste Goodridge; 1995), and most recently The Emily Dickinson Handbook (with Gudrun Grabher and Roland Hagenbuchle; 1998).

R. Laurence Moore--The Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies and History at Cornell Universiy, he is director of the American Studies Program and has written extensively about American religion and culture.

Laura J. Murray--She teaches in the English Department of Queen's University.

Michael Newbury--He teaches in the Department of American Literature and Civilization at Middlebury College. He is the author of Figuring Authorship in Antebellum America (Stanford University Press, 1997) and is currently working on a book about the emergence of musical comedy as a popular cultural form.

Viet Thanh Nguyen--He is an assistant professor of English and Asian American Studies at the Universty of Southern California. He is working on a book about representations of the body in Asian American literature since 1899.

Elizabeth Renker--An Associate Professor of English at Ohio State, she is the author of Strike Through the Mask: Herman Melville and...