The Contributors

THE CONTRIBUTORS Elizabeth renker is an Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University . Her book on Herman Melville, Strike Through the Mask: MelviUe and the Scene ofWriting, is forthcoming from The Johns Hopkins University Press. paúl Lyons, Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa, has published in American Literature, South Atlantic Review, Manoa, and elsewhere, and is the author of Table Legs and Goingfor Broke (novels). Mauri skinF?LL is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of California at Berkeley specializing in American modernism. She is currently completing a dissertation on Faulkner and the myth of American class mobility. stacey margolis is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Chicago. She is completing a dissertation on the ghost story and discourses of the self in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American literature. charles scruggs is the author of two books—The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s. (Johns Hopkins, 1984) and Sweet Home: Invisible Cities in the Afro-American Novel (Johns Hopkins, 1993)—and of articles on Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Fowles, Phillis Wheatley, Jean Toomer, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison. Herbert N. schneidau is working on books on The New Testament and on Chaucer. ...