KATHLEEN ASHLEY is professor of English at the University of Southern Maine.
She has edited Victor Turner and the Construction of Cultural Criticism: Between
Literature and Anthropology and edited, with Pamela Sheingorn, Interpreting
Cultural Symbols: St. Anne and Late Medieval Society. She is completing a book
on medieval cultural performance.

BETTY BERGLAND is assistant professor of history at the University of Wiscon-
sin, River Falls. Her book, Reading the Autobiographical Subject: Gender and
Ethnicity in the "New World" Patriarchy is being considered for publication.

ANDREI CODRESCU is Writer-in-Residence at Louisiana State University, where
he edits the journal Exquisite Corpse. He is author of numerous books of poetry
and autobiographies as well as a recent book on the Romanian revolution. He is
also a frequent commentator on National Public Radio.

MICHAEL M. J. FISCHER has taught at Chicago, Harvard, and Rice, and currently
teaches at M.I.T. in the Program in Science, Technology and Society and the
Department of Anthropology. He is author, with George Marcus, of Anthropol-
ogy as Cultural Critique and, with Mehdi Abedi, of Debating Muslims: Cultural
Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition.

LEIGH GILMORE is associate professor of English at the University of Southern
Maine. She is the author of Autobiographics: A Feminist Theory of Women's Self-
Representation. Currently, she is writing on obscenity law, modernism, and
sexuality.

DAVID P. HANEY is associate professor of English at Auburn University in
Auburn, Alabama. He is the author of William Wordsworth and the Hermeneu-
tics of Incarnation as well as several articles on Wordsworth and Keats.

PAUL JAY is associate professor of English and graduate programs director at
Loyola University of Chicago. He is the author of Being in the Text: Self-
Representation from Wordsworth to Roland Barthes. He has published essays on

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