Author Bios

Articles

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. He has published on Donna Haraway, Wallace Stevens, James Joyce, "infectious paranoia," representations of aliens in science fiction, and other topics. He served as guest editor of the June 1998 edition of College Literature, an issue devoted to issues of cultural violence. A previous essay, "This is Not Foucault's Head," graced the first issue of Post Identity.

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Lou F. Caton teaches literature and writing at Auburn University. Since receiving a PhD. From the University of Oregon, he has written on Don DeLillo, Jamaica Kinkaid, and Leslie Marmon Silko. More recently, however, he has been concentrating on completing a book-length manuscript that interprets Coleridge's aesthetic theories in relation to the social/political issues of American multicultural theory. The article in this issue comes from that project.

Feeling Romantic/Thinking Postmodern: Notes on Postcolonial Identity

Mary O'Connor, RSM was born in Wexford, Ireland, and grew up there and in London. She has an MFA from Columbia University and a PhD. from UCLA. She has published and presented essays on postcolonial issues, women writers, and James Joyce. Her poems and short stories have appeared in Columbia, New Irish Writing, Jacaranda, Contemplative Review, and . Her current research interests are comparative studies linking post-colonial studies and theory to the literature of the indigenous peoples of the Great Plains, and the writing of working-class women in Ireland and Great Britain. She lives and teaches in Brookings, South Dakota, where she is an Associate Professor of English at SDSU.

Chronicles of Impeded Growth: Eavan Boland and the Reconstruction of Identity

Hsuan L. Hsu is a first year graduate student in English at U.C., Berkeley. His research interests include Melville, travel writing, and the visual arts. He has published brief articles on Auden and Burger King.

Post-Nationalism and the Adulteration of Vision in The English Patient

Susan Latta is an Assistant Professor of English and Director of the First-Year Writing Program at the University of Detroit Mercy. Her research focuses on analyzing the production and consumption of texts, with an emphasis on feminist and postmodern critiques. Recent publications include articles on writing assessment and feminist empirical research.

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