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CONTRIBUTORS vALDiNE clem en s teaches in the areas of nineteenth-century literature and women’s studies. She has published essays on Zelda Fitzgerald, Ursula K. LeGuin and Margaret Atwood. Her 1994 doctoral dissertation was a study of Gothic horror from The Castle of Otranto to Alien. Ch r ist o p h e r d o u g la s is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto. His research interests are contemporary American literature, modernism, reception theory, and diasporic literatures. m a c f e n w ic k is a doctoral candidate at Queen’s University. His research interests include Caribbean and South Asian literature as well as post­ colonial theory. His most recent publication is on black popular culture in apartheid South Africa (Journal of Southern African Studies). paul keen has been doing doctoral work at York University in the U.K. He has published on William Wordsworth’s canonical ambivalence, on the debate about the relationship between literature and empire in the Romantic period, and on the poetics of contemporary Irish culture. Ire n a r . m a k a r y k is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. Her publications include About the Harrowing of Hell: A 17th-Century Ukrain­ ian Play in Its European Context (1989), and she has edited Living Record: Essays in Memory of Constantine Bida (1991), and the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory (1993). Makaryk is currently at work on a book on Shakespeare in Soviet Ukraine. r o b e r t k . m a r t in is Professor of English and Chair of the Department at the Université de Montréal. He is the author of The Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry (1979), and Hero, Captain, and Stranger: Male Friend­ ship, Social Critique, and Literary Form in the Sea Novels of Herman Melville (1986). Mich a e l m o o r e specializes in nineteenth-century British poetry and religion, as well as in ecocriticism and literary theory. He is a recipient of a 3M Canada Teaching Fellowship. b r ian p a r k e r is Emeritus Professor of English at Trinity College in the Uni­ versity of Toronto, where he served as Director of the Graduate Drama Centre and of Graduate English Studies and also as Dean of Arts of Trin­ ity College. His most recent books are a 1995 edition of Coriolanus for Oxford University Press and (with Sheldon Zitner) Elizabethan Theater: Essays in Honor of S. Schoenbaum (AUP, 1996). d a p h n e r e a d teaches modern women’s literature and non-fiction writing at the University of Alberta, and has published articles on feminist culture. Her current research focusses on the intersections between feminist, criti­ cal, and postcolonial pedagogies: “Imagining Community: Cultural Nar­ ratives and the Class(room) as Borderland.” Go r d o n e . sle t h a u g specializes in contemporary American fiction and is the author of The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction (1993) and co-author of Understanding John Barth (1990). He is currently writ­ ing a book on late American fiction and chaos theory. r o b in w a u g h specializes in Old English, Middle English, and Old Norse lit­ erature and has published articles in Oral Tradition and in The Journal of Narrative Technique. He now teaches at Memorial University. ...

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