The Contributors

THE CONTRIBUTORS William j. scheick, J. R. Millikan Centennial Professor at the University ofTexas at Austin, is most recently the author of The Ethos of Romance at the Turn of the Century (University ofTexas Press, 1994), and Paine, Scripture, and Authority (Lehigh University Ptess, 1994). charles lewis is a doctoral candidate and fiction writer at the University of Minnesota. He is working on a dissertation about the novel and neoclassical economic theory. timothy morris is Assistant Professor of English at The University of Texas at Arlington. His new book, Becoming Canonical in American Poetry, is published by University of Illinois Press. He is at work on a book-length study of baseball fiction, with the working title Making the Team. doran Larson, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin—Richland Centet, teaches British and American Literature and writes fiction. blake allmendinger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of The Cowboy: Representations of Labor in an American Work Culture (Oxfotd, 1992), as well as a new work-in-progress on the literature of the American West, to be published by Routledge. charles Bernstein is David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His most recent books are Dark City (Sun 6k Moon Press) and A Poetics (Harvard University Ptess). ...