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In addition to having the distinction of having been told by Stanley Elkin that he pushed Stanley's wheelchair as effectively as anyone had ever pushed it, PETER J. BAILEY is the author of Reading Stanley Elkin and The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen. He teaches American literature and fiction writing at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, where he directs the university's Jeffrey Campbell Graduate Fellowship Program. A critical study written for John Updike experts, Rabbit (Un)Redeemed: The Dilemma of Belief in John Updike's Fiction, is Bailey's recently concluded project. PETER G. CHRISTENSEN is Assistant Professor of English at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he has taught since 1995. He received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at SUNY-Binghamton, where he wrote a dissertation on Faulkner, Dos Passos, and Sartre (1979). He previously contributed to the Review of Contemporary Fiction with essays on Alasdair Gray and Edmund White as well as Stanley Elkin. He has published over one hundred articles on twentieth-century literature and film, including essays on John Cowper Powys, D. H. Lawrence, Marguerite Yourcenar, Simone De Beauvoir, and Jean Cocteau. DAVID C. DOUGHERTY directs the Graduate Program in Modern Studies and is Professor of English at Loyola College in Maryland. He has from time to time chaired that department and has served as a technical writing consultant for various firms and governmental institutions. A Woodrow Wilson Dissertation fellow at Miami University, he has published and lectured extensively on modern and postmodern American writers and literary movements. He’s the author of book-length studies of poet James Wright (1927-1980) and novelist Stanley Elkin (1930-1995) as well as journal and reference book essays on several American and British writers, most recently Toni Morrison, John Dos Passos, Thomas Hardy, Elkin, Saul Bellow, W. D. Snodgrass, and John Updike. He also completed minibiographies of professional athletes Bob Gibson, Ernie Banks, and Jerry West in 2001. His most recent critical essay is a study Morrison’s enigmatic novel Tar Baby. He just completed “Archetypal Batters: Baseball as Trope in Postmodern American Fiction” for Essays on Sports Literature and is currently conducting research toward a biography of Elkin. D. G. MYERS studied under Stanley Elkin at Washington University in St. Louis, where he earned his Master’s degree with a thesis on The Dick Gibson Show that was directed by Elkin. From there he went on to Northwestern University, where he held the TriQuarterly Fellowship, and earned a Ph.D. with a dissertation that later became The Elephants Teach: Creative Writing Since 1880 (Prentice Hall, 1996). Now teaching at Texas A&M University, where he is an Associate Professor of English and religious studies, he has shifted his research focus to Jewish studies and especially Holocaust literature. His essays on the subject have appeared in First Things, Comparative Literature, American Literary History, and the Routledge Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature. A book-length study entitled Canonizing the Holocaust is in progress. ARTHUR SALTZMAN is Professor of English at Missouri Southern State College. He is the author of several books on contemporary American fiction, including Designs of Darkness in Contemporary American Fiction, The Novel in the Balance, and This Mad Instead: Governing Metaphors in Contemporary American Fiction. He has also published several “lyrical essays” in such journals as Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Black Warrior Review, Cream City Review, Ohio Review, Nebraska Review, and Southeast Review. His most recent book, Objects and Empathy, won the First Series Creative Nonfiction Award from Mid-List Press, and he has just completed another essay collection, now seeking a good home. |
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