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  • Contributors

Bonnie Lyons, professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio, has published many interviews with American fiction writers and dramatists, some of which appear in Passion and Craft: Conversations with Notable Writers (Illinois, 1998), which she co-edited with Bill Oliver. Her other work includes a book on Henry Roth, several articles on Jewish American literature, and three volumes of poetry.

Karen Jackson Ford, professor of English at the University of Oregon, is the author of Gender and the Poetics of Excess: Moments of Brocade (Mississippi, 1997) and Split-Gut Song: Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity (Alabama, 2005). She has published articles on Langston Hughes, the blues, U.S. haiku, and internment camp haiku. Her current project is a book on race and poetic form.

Sarah Dillon, lecturer in contemporary fiction at the University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, is the author of The Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, Theory (Continuum, 2007) and an undergraduate-level textbook to be published by Edinburgh University Press titled "Doing Literary Theory." She has published articles on Elizabeth Bowen, H.D., and Derrida and anacoluthia and is now working with British fiction written after 9/11.

Ricardo L. Ortíz, associate professor of English at Georgetown University, is the author of Cultural Erotics in Cuban America (Minnesota, 2007). His published work includes articles and reviews on Edwidge Danticat, Eduardo Machado, Rigoberto González, and gay history, and he has a book manuscript in progress on the postdictatorial mode in U.S. Latino literature and culture after 1990. He held the Joseph A. Bailey II, M.D., endowed chair in the American Communities program at California State University, Los Angeles, for 2006-7.

Jonathan Greenberg, assistant professor of English at Montclair State University in New Jersey, has published articles on Darwinism and literary theory, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, and Evelyn Waugh. He is writing a book about modernism and satire.

Sarah Phillips Casteel, associate professor of English at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, is the author of Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas (Virginia, 2007) and co-editor, with Rachel Adams, of a special issue of Comparative American Studies on Canada and the Americas. She has published articles on Austin Clarke, Eva Hoffman, Joy Kogawa, Shani Mootoo, and Derek Walcott. Her current projects are a book on multicultural and postcolonial representations of Jewishness and a co-edited volume on hemispheric approaches to Canadian literature.

Brian M. Reed, associate professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle, is the author of Hart Crane: After His Lights (Alabama, 2006) and coeditor, with Nancy Perloff, of Situating El Lissitzky: Vitebsk, Berlin, Moscow (Getty Research Institute, 2003). Subjects of his recent articles include Susan Howe, Tom Raworth, Carl Sandburg, and Rosmarie Waldrop. He is completing a book manuscript on U.S. poetry during and after the Vietnam War.

Libbie Rifkin is a full-time adjunct professor of English at Georgetown University. Her published work includes Career Moves: Olson, Creeley, Zukofsky, Berrigan, and the American Avant-Garde (Wisconsin, 2000) and articles on postwar American poetry and culture and on contemporary women's poetry. Her work in progress is a series of essays on collaborative friendships between male and female poets. [End Page 475]

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