Contributors

RICHARD HENRY teaches in the Department of English and Communication at SUNY Potsdam. He is the author of Pretending and Meaning, a philosophical inquiry into the pragmatic foundations of fictional discourse (Greenwood, 1996), and Sidewalk Portrait, a fragmentary novel (Pulbits.com, 2004). His fiction and articles have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies, including the Connecticut Review, Short Story, World Literature Today, and the Journal of Pragmatics.

MICHAEL KAUFMANN earned his doctorate from the University of Illinois and is an associate professor and Director of Liberal Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, where, he teaches twentieth-century American literature, modern British literature, and film. He is the author of Textual Bodies (Bucknell UP, 1994) and has published articles in James Joyce Quarterly, Journal of Modern Literature, American Literature, and Criticism.

E. L. McCallum teaches in the English Department at Michigan State University and is the author of Object Lessons: How to Do Things with Fetishism (SUNY, 1998), as well as recent articles in Camera Obscura, Poetics Today, and Arizona Quarterly.

ROLF SAMUELS earned an undergraduate degree in English from Earlham College, a master's degree in creative writing from Iowa State, and his doctorate from the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His dissertation, a chapter of which is adapted here, considered the intersection of pornography and American metafiction of the 1960s and 1970s. He is currently an assistant professor of English at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin, where he teaches courses in fiction and writing.

KAREN SCHIFF straddles definitional boundaries in all her research and teaching. Her dissertation on "The Look of the Book" (Penn, 1998) aimed to historicize artists' books, which weave words and images into unconventional compositions. Her recent paper on "Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press: Book Design as Visual-Verbal Modernism" won a prize for Best Paper in Historical Literary/Cultural Studies at a regional MLA conference in 2002. Her interdisciplinary pendulum has swung from teaching in an English Department to now studying Studio Art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Also, she teaches at Emerson College and the Boston Architectural Center.