The Contributors

THE CONTRIBUTORS christopher F. Packard teaches at New York University and The New School for Social Research in New York City. He has published several short stories in such quarterlies as Tfie Michigan Quarterly Review , The Short Story Review, and Kingfisher. His essay on writing pedagogy and political activism will appear later this year in Concerns. Stephen matterson lectures in American Literature at Trinity College , Dublin. He is the author of Berryman and Lowell: The Art of Losing (1988) and editor of the Penguin edition of Melville's The Confidence-Man ( 1990). Stephanie foote is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is currently at work on "Goundwork: Revisiting Regionalism in Late Nineteenth-Century United States Culture," a book-length study of regionalism, nationalism , and ethnicity. peter okun is a Mellon Faculty Scholar at the West Virginia University , where he is writing his dissertation on prison fictions and reforms in early nationalist America. He teaches English at Davis & Elkins College. TOMOYUKi ZETTSU teaches American Literature at Tokyo Gakugei University. Concurrently, at the University of Texas at Austin, he is completing a dissertation on Tennessee Williams' relationship to American Romanticism and Modernism. He has published articles in Japanese periodicals as well as in Melville Society Extracts. TACEY a. rosolowski is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University ofWisconsin at Madison. Her work has appeared in Modern Language Studies and is forthcoming in Genders. ...