Biography

Contributors Caroline B. Bretell (Review of Couser, Recovering Bodies), Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University, is the author of several books on cross-cultural study of gender and on gender and migration, including We Have Already Cried Many Tears: The Stories of Three Portuguese Migrant Women (Waveland, 1995). She has just completed a book about her mother's career—Zoe: Writing a Mother's Life in Journalism (Scholarly Resources, forthcoming). Gary Collison (Review of Fleischner, Mastering Slavery) teaches American Uterature, American Studies, and writing at Pennsylvania State University, York. He is the author of Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen (Harvard UP, 1997). W. Lawrence Hogue (Review of Cimbala and Himmelberg, Historians and Race), Professor of English at the University of Houston, is the author of Discourse and the Other: The Production of the Afro-American Text (Duke UP, 1986) and Race, Modernity, Postmodernity: A Look at the History and the Literatures of People of Color Since the 1960s (SUNY Press, 1996). He is currently completing a third critical book titled Beyond Victimization/Otherness: Celebrating African American (Male) Differences. Katie Holmes (Review of Parke, Biography )is the author of Spaces in Her Day: Australian Women's Diaries of the 1920s and 1930s fAllen & Unwin, 1995). She is Senior Lecturer in History and Women's Studies at La Trobe University (Melbourne). Sara R. Horowitz (Review of Lieblich, Conversations with Dvora) is Director of the Jewish Studies Program and Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction (SUNY Press, 1997), and numerous articles on Holocaust literature, women survivors, Jewish American fiction, and pedagogy. She is founding coeditor of KEREM: A Journal of Creative Explorations in Judaism, and served as fiction advisory editor for Jewish American Women Writers: A BioBibliographical and Critical Sourcebook (Greenwood, 1994). Sally Gregory Kohlstedt (Review of Gates and Shteir, Natural Eloquence), Professor in the Program of History of Science and Technology at the University of Minnesota, studies institutions like museums, schools, and popular texts where science and society negotiate meaning. Her current interests on women are represented in Gender and Scientific Authority (U of Chicago P, 1996, edited with Barbara Laslett, Helen Longino, and Evelynn Hammonds) and Women, Gender, and Science: New Directions (U of Chicago P, 1997, edited with Helen Longino). 418 Biography 21.3 (Summer 1998) Carol Hanbery MacKay (Review of Newey and Shaw, Mortal Pages, Literary Lives) is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, where she speciaUzes in Victorian fiction, women's studies, and auto/biography. Author of Soliloquy in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (MacmiUan, 1987) and editor of The Two Thackerays (AMS, 1988) and Dramatic Dickens (St. Martin's, 1989), she is currently completing a book-length study of four Victorian proto-feminists—JuUa Margaret Cameron, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Annie Wood Besant, and Elizabeth Robins. Miles Orvell (Review of Rugg, Picturing Ourselves) is Professor of EngUsh and American Studies at Temple University, and is the author of The Real Thing: Imagination and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940 (U of North Carolina P, 1989) and After the Machine: Visual Arts and the Erasing of Cultural Boundaries (U of Mississippi P, 1995). He has written widely on the history of photography and on technology and culture. Ronald J. Morgan ("Just Like Rosa") has recently received his Ph.D. in history from the University of CaUfornia at Santa Barbara. His dissertation, "Saints, Biographers and Creole Identity Formation in Colonial Spanish America," examines the religious biographies of New World saints for their social and poUtical context. He is Assistant Professor of History at Biola University. Panthea Reid ("Stephens, Fishers, and the Court of the 'Sultan of Zanzibar'"), Professor of EngUsh at Louisiana State University, is the author of Art and Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf (Oxford UP, 1997). Her "Troublesomeness and Guüt: New Evidence from 1895" appeared in the Fall 1997 Virginia Woolf Miscellany. Her redating of Woolf 's suicide letters has sparked controversy in that and the following issue of the Miscellany. Reid's "Archives and Art and Affection" is in Virginia Woolf and Her Influences: Selected Papers from the...