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Notes On Contributors
  
  
  
  
  

Notes On Contributors

PHILIP WILLIAMS, JR., Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia, died tragically in March, 1955.

ARTHUR BROWN, is Lecturer in English at University College London, where he operates a reconstructed Elizabethan printing press. Commonwealth Fund Fellow for research in the United States in 1954-55, he is the editor of John Redford's Wit and Science and Thomas Heywood's The Captives for the Malone Society. He is currently engaged on Arden editions of Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado, and on an edition of the plays of Thomas Heywood for the Clarendon Press.

PAUL L. CANTRELL, teaching at Centre College, is writing his dissertation for the University of Virginia on Compositor B in the Pavier Quartos.

GEORGE WALTON WILLIAMS, graduate student at the University of Virginia, is engaged on special textual studies in Romeo and Juliet.

FREDSON BOWERS is Professor of English at the University of Virginia and Professorial Lecturer in English at the University of Chicago.

ANDREW S. CAIRNCROSS is a Scottish schoolmaster residing near Glasgow. He has been especially active in searching for evidences of annotated-quarto copy in the printing of the Shakespeare First Folio.

ALICE WALKER, of Bude Cornwall, author of Textual Problems of the First Folio, and a distinguished textual scholar, is at present assisting J. Dover Wilson with the final volumes of the New Cambridge Shakespeare.

JOHN RUSSELL BROWN, B. Litt. Oxon., is a Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon and the editor of the recent Arden Merchant of Venice.

CYRUS HOY received his doctorate from the University of Virginia with a dissertation on the collaborations in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon. He was a Fulbright Fellow at Trinity College Cambridge in 1952-53 and is at present Instructor in English at the University of Virginia.

WILLIAM H. BOND is Curator of Manuscripts in the Houghton Library of Harvard University. He was Fulbright Fellow attached to the British Museum in 1952-53.

ROBERT L. HAIG is Instructor in English at the University of Illinois. He is especially interested in the printing history of the 17th and 18th centuries.

JOHN C. GUILDS, JR., who took his doctorate at Duke University under Jay B. Hubbell, is Associate Professor of English at East Central State College of Oklahoma. He is now working on an edition of Simms's short stories.

E. R. HAGEMANN received his doctorate from Indiana University and is at present Instructor in English at the University of California in Los Angeles. He is specializing in American Literature 1860-1900.

LINTON MASSEY, President of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, is an ardent collector of Faulkner and of other modern authors.

DENNIS E. RHODES, especially interested in incunables, is in the Department of Printed Books at the British Museum.


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CURT F. BÜHLER, a most active scholar in analyzing incunabula printing, is Keeper of Printed Books at The Pierpont Morgan Library.

WILLIAM RINGLER, Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, and a prominent Renaissance scholar, has written extensively on Lyly, Euphuism, and Gosson.

JOHN L. LIEVSAY, Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, is one of this country's most active Renaissance scholars.

RICHARD BEALE DAVIS, Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, received his doctorate from the University of Virginia. The latest in a series of books from this distinguished scholar is George Sandys: Poet-Adventurer.

WILLIAM B. TODD, the well-known 18th-century bibliographer, is now connected with the Houghton Library at Harvard University.

SEYMOUR L. GROSS, Instructor in English at the University of Indiana (South Bend Center) has published various articles on 19th-century American literature and is now at work on a biography of Ring Lardner.

IRBY B. CAUTHEN received his doctorate from the University of Virginia, where he is now Assistant Professor of English.

EDWIN H. MILLER, Associate Professor of English at Simmons College, is preparing a check list of Walt Whitman correspondence.

RUDOLF HIRSCH is the expert on incunabula for the University of Pennsylvania Library.

HOWELL J. HEANEY is Bibliographer in the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia.

LEONARD S. CLARK, a personal friend of Walter de la Mare, is himself a well known English poet and critic.