The Columbia History of the American Novel

Notes on Contributors

Elizabeth Ammons is Professor of English and of American Studies at Tufts University. She is the author of Edith Wharton's Argument with America and Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century. She is also the editor of Critical Essays on Harriet Beecher Stowe, How Celia Changed Her Mind and Selected Stories by Rose Terry Cooke, and Short Fiction by Black Women, 1900–1920.

Christine Bold is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Guelph, Canada. She is author of Selling the Wild West: Popular Western Fiction, 1860 to 1960, as well as several essays on United States] popular culture and 1930s writing.

Robert Boyers founded the American intellectual journal Salmagundi in 1965, and continues to edit it at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, where he is also Professor of English and Director of the New York State Summer Writers Institute. He writes frequently for such publications as The New Republic, TLS, Dissent, The American Scholar, Partisan Review, and the New York Times Book Review. The most recent of his six books are Atrocity and Amnesia: The Political Novel Since 1945 and After the AvantGarde.

Bill Brown, who teaches at the University of Chicago, has published work in Arizona Quarterly, Cultural Critique, and Critical Inquiry, among other journals; he is the author of Recreation and Representation in America, 1880–1950 (forthcoming).

Debra A. Castillo is Associate Professor of Romance Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is author of The Translated World: A Postmodern Tour of Libraries in Literature and Talking Back: Strategies -847- for a Latin American Feminist Literary Criticism (forthcoming). She has published numerous essays on contemporary Latin American, Spanish, United States Hispanic, and British commonwealth fiction. She is editor of Diacritics, as well as book review editor of Letras femeninas.

Ed Cohen is the author of Talk on the Wilde Side: Towards a Genealogy of the Discourse on Male (Homo)Sexuality (forthcoming), as well as a number of articles on gender and cultural studies. He currently teaches in the English Department at Rutgers University and works as a counselor for people with life-threatening illnesses at the Manhattan Center for Living.

Arnold E. Davidson is Professor of Canadian Studies at Duke University. He has written Mordecai Richler, coedited The Art of Margaret Atwood, edited the MLA volume Studies on Canadian Literature: Introductory and Critical Essays, and published many essays on Canadian fiction.

Cathy N. Davidson is Professor of English at Duke University and editor of American Literature. Her most recent books are Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America and Reading in America: Literature and Social History. She is general editor for Oxford University Press's Early American Women Writers series and is currently coediting the Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States.

Thadious M. Davis is Professor of English at Brown University. She is the author of Faulkner's "Negro": Art and the Southern Context, and a biography of Nella Larsen, Engendering Self in the Harlem Renaissance. Coeditor of three volumes on African American authors for The Dictionary of Literary Biography, she has published essays on Southern and African American literature. Joan Dayan's Fables of Mind: An Inquiry into Poe's Fiction, was published in 1987. She is currently a fellow at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University, where she is completing a book called "Haiti, History, and the Gods."

Emory Elliott is Presidential Chair of English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Power and the Pulpit in Puritan New England and Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic, as well as the editor of several books in American literature including the Columbia Literary History of the United States. He is also series editor for The American Novel for Cambridge University Press and for Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction.

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Thomas J. Ferraro is Assistant Professor of English at Duke University. He has published several essays on twentieth-century ethnic literature and film.

Michael T. Gilmore is Professor of English at Brandeis University. He is the author of American Romanticism and the Marketplace and a contributor to the forthcoming Cambridge History of American Literature.

Phillip Brian Harper is Assistant Professor of Englishand Afro-American Studies at Harvard University, where he teaches courses in English literary modernism, nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States literature, AfroAmerican culture, and contemporary cultural studies. His current scholarship, on social marginality and postmodern fiction, and on social division in African American culture, has been supported by grants from the Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Molly Hite is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University. She is the author of Ideas of Order in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon, The Other Side of the Story: Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narrative, the academic novel Class Porn, and articles on contemporary literature, feminist theory, and the discipline of literary studies.

Amy Kaplan is Associate Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Social Construction of American Realism, and has authored several essays on American realists and American imperialism in journals such as PLMA, ELH, and American Literary History. She is currently at work on a book about American imperialism.

Ketu H. Katrak, who grew up in Bombay, India, is currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Wole Soyinka and Modern Tragedy: A Study of Dramatic Theory and Practice and coeditor with H. L. Gates, Jr., and James Gibbs of Wole Soyinka: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. She has published essays on African, Indian, and Caribbean literatures in journals such as Modern Fiction Studies, Third World Affairs, Black American Literature Forum, and Journal of Commonwealth Literature, among others.

Paul Lauter is A. K. and G. M. Smith Professor of Literature at Trinity College. He is coordinating editor of the groundbreaking Heath Anthology of American Literature. His most recent book is Canons and Contexts. He is a member of the editorial board of Radical Teacher, the board of Resist, has served as editor and treasurer of The Feminist Press, and has worked both as activist and academic through much of his life.

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Robert S. Levine is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville.

James H. Maguire, Professor of English at Boise State University, has served as coeditor of BSU's Western Writers Series since its founding in 1972. He is the author of Mary Hallock Foote and the editor of The Literature of Idaho: An Anthology.

Terence Martin is Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University. He has published numerous studies and editions of nineteenth-century American writers, among them The Instructed Vision: Scottish Common Sense Philosophy and the Origins of American Fiction and Nathaniel Hawthorne. He is an associate editor of American National Biography.

Nellie McKay is Professor of American and Afro-American Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Jean Toomer, Artist: A Study of His Literary Life and Work, 1894–1936, editor of Critical Essays on Toni Morrison, and associate general editor of the forthcoming Norton Anthology of Afro-American Literature. She is currently working on a study of autobiographical narratives of African American women.

Susan Mizruchi is Assistant Professor of English at Boston University. She is the author of The Power of Historical Knowledge: Narrating the Past in Hawthorne, James, and Dreiser, as well as articles on James and Melville.

Margot Norris is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. Her essays have appeared in PMLA, ELH, and MLN and in various collections of books, including work on Joyce, Kafka, Ibsen, and Puig. She is the author of The Decentered Universe of "Finnegans Wake" and Beasts of the Modern Imagination: Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, and Lawrence. Her new book on James Joyce's critique of modernism will be published by the University of Texas Press in 1992.

Patrick O'Donnell is the Eberly Professor of American Literature at West Virginia University. He is the author of John Hawkes; Passionate Doubts: Designs of Interpretation in Contemporary American Fiction; and Echo Chambers: Figuring Voice in Modern Narrative (forthcoming). He is the coeditor of Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction, and the editor of New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49. Presently he is working on a book about paranoia and contemporary American fiction.

Sandra Pouchet Paquet is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches Caribbean Literature and African American -850- Literature. She is the author of The Novels of George Lamming and is writing a book on West Indian autobiography.

Lora Romero is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin. She has written articles on Cooper and Stowe, as well as on minority discourse. She is currently completing a book entitled Domestic Fictions: A New Historicist Reading of the American Renaissance.

Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He has published essays in nineteenth-century American literature and culture and in Jewish American literature, and he is the author of Adrift in the Old World: The Psychological Pilgrimage of Washington Irving. He is currently writing a book on masculinity and heroism in American literature and culture.

José David Saldívar is Associate Professor of American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the editor of The Rolando Hinojosa Reader: Essays Historical and Critical, coeditor of Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology, and author of The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History and articles on cultural studies, Chicano literary criticism, and the institution of literary studies.

Robert Shulman has written Social Criticism and Nineteenth-Century American Fictions and numerous essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, culture, and politics for such journals as PMLA, American Literature, ELH, and Massachusetts Review. He is Professor of English at the University of Washington and was a visiting professor of American Studies and English at the University of Minnesota. He is currently writing a book on Political Art and the Politics of the Literary Canon: The 1930 Left Reconsidered.

Valerie Smith is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. The author of Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative, she has published essays on African American feminist literature and theory. She is currently completing a book of essays on race, gender, and culture.

Cecelia Tichi is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is interested in literary-cultural relations, and her work spans Puritan New England through the television age. Her books include New World, New Earth: Environmental Reform in American Literature from the Puritans through Whitman; Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture -851- in Modernist America; and Electronic Hearth: The Acculturation of Television in the United States.

John M. Unsworth is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at North Carolina State University. He is coeditor of Postmodern Culture, an electronic journal available on Bitnet and Internet. He has published articles on John Hawkes, Gilbert Sorrentino, Carlos Baker, Wallace Stevens, Henry Fielding, and electronic publishing.

David Van Leer is Associate Professor of Englishand American Literature at the University of California, Davis. Author of Emerson's Epistemology, a study of Emerson and Kant, he is currently at work on a companion volume treating Poe's relation to Newtonian physics. His essays on contemporary culture for The New Republic and elsewhere are collected in The Queening of America: Gay Culture in Straight Society.

Cornel West is Professor of Religion and Director of African American Studies at Princeton University. His publications include Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity; Prophetic Fragments; PostAnalytic Philosophy (coedited with John Rajchman); and The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism.

Christopher P. Wilson is Associate Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Boston College. He is the author of The Labor of Words: Literary Professionalism in the Progressive Era and White Collar Fictions (forthcoming).

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