The Yale Journal of Criticism

Jonathon Robinson Appels is a literary theorist and teaches at the School of Visual Arts and Rutgers University. He is also the choreographer and Artistic Director of the modern dance company, Company Appels.

Rebecca Bedell is Assistant Professor in the Art Department at Wellesley College. She is completing a book entitled The Role of Rocks: Geology and American Landscape Painting, 1825–1875.

Lisa Cohen’s work appears in Global Television (MIT Press, 1988), and is forthcoming in Fashion Theory and Queer 13 (William Morrow, 1998). She has contributed to The Lingua Franca Book Review, The Voice Literary Supplement, and Bookforum, among other publications, and has taught at Yale University, Swarthmore College, and Lang College. She is currently writing a book on English fashion doyenne Madge Garland and the history of British Vogue.

Edward S. Cooke, Jr. is the Charles F. Montgomery Professor of American Decorative Arts at Yale University. His most recent book is Making Furniture in Preindustrial America: The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut. He is currently working on a book on cultural production in late nineteenth-century Boston.

Diane Dillon and Christopher Reed are neighbors in suburban Chicago, where they teach at Northwestern University and Lake Forest College respectively. Reed’s books are A Roger Fry Reader and Not at Home: The Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture; he is currently writing a book on the domestic designs of the Bloomsbury artists. Reed has published a number of articles on contemporary queer subculture, including “Imminent Domain: Queer Space in the Built Environment” in Art Journal. Dillon is interested in the history as well as the practice of collaboration. She has written about the collaboration between the photographer William Mortensen and his models, and is currently completing a book on the visual culture of the 1893 World’s Fair.

Robin Jaffee Frank, Associate Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale University Art Gallery, received her B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Brandeis University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in the History of Art from Yale University (Jules Prown, advisor). She has lectured, organized exhibitions, and published on American paintings, sculpture, photography, prints and drawings. Her most recent exhibition catalogue is Charles Demuth Poster Portraits: 1923–1929 (YUAG, 1994). She is currently researching American portrait miniatures. In addition to her museum experience, Robin has studied the production of documentaries on the visual and performing arts at BBC-TV in London and worked at NBC-TV News in New York City. Her own prints and drawings have been exhibited in galleries and museums.

Martin Harries is Assistant Professor of English at Princeton University. He has just completed a book manuscript called Scare Quotes from Shakespeare: Marx, Keynes, and the Language of Reenchantment, and is beginning a project on the relationship between mass culture and modern drama.

Jodi Hauptman is Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Delaware. Her essay on contemporary art and urbanism recently appeared in the exhibition catalogue, Fernand Léger (The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1998), and her book on Joseph Cornell’s cinematic imagination is forthcoming from Yale University Press.

Richard Helgerson is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His most recent book, Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), won the British Council Prize in the Humanities and the James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association. He is currently completing a book on intersections of home, state, and history in early modern European drama and painting.

John Kasson is Professor of History and Adjunct Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His most recent book is Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America (New York: Hill and Wang, 1990). He is currently working on a study of the white male body and the crisis of modernity in America at the turn of the twentieth century, tentatively titled Strongmen and Escape Artists.

Joy Kasson received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale in 1972. She is Professor of American Studies and English at the University of...