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Notes on Contributors
G. Thomas Tanselle, Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, teaches bibliography and editing in the Columbia University English Department and is co-editor of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville. He is currently president of the Grolier Club and has just completed two terms as president of the Bibliographical Society of America.
Richard J. Zboray is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington and Microfilm Editor of the Emma Goldman Papers at the University of California at Berkeley. He has published in American Quarterly, Southwest Review, Journal of American Culture, Book Research Quarterly, American Archivist, International Journal of Micrographics and Video Technology, Documentary Editing, and Publishing History.
Ralph Hanna III, Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, has edited a number of Middle English and Anglo-Latin works; he remains interested in the relationship of book production and literary history.
Grace Ioppolo has recently completed a doctoral dissertation on authorial revision in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries at the University of California, Los Angeles. A former Huntington Library Fellow, her article on Shakespeare's 18th-century editors appeared in the Huntington Library Quarterly.
Fredson Bowers is Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Virginia.
Adrian Weiss is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Dakota. His research progresses in several directions: sorting out the printing histories and sequence of standing-type plays (Malcontent, Honest Whore, Eastward Hoe!, Fawne); identifying the sets of matrices that produced mixed fonts; and developing programs for computer-assisted compositor analysis and font analysis. Relocation closer to rare-books collections is critical to the continuation of his work.
William J. Burling is Associate Professor of Research and Bibliography at Southwest Missouri State University. He specializes in Restoration and eighteenth-century drama and has published in Philological Quarterly, Modern Philology, Theatre Notebook, Essays in Theatre, Theatre History Studies, and other journals. He is presently preparing A Catalogue of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737.
Frederick G. Ribble received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia. He has published articles on Fielding and is currently working with his wife on an annotated catalogue of Fielding's library.
Arthur Sherbo, Emeritus Professor of English at Michigan State University, is making a special study of eighteenth-century periodicals. He was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and graduated from Haverhill High School.
William Baker, MLS, is Associate Professor and Humanities Librarian (English / American Language and Literature), Founders Memorial Library, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. Dr. Baker is one of the authors of F. R. Leavis and Q. D. Leavis: An Annotated Bibliography (Garland, 1989). He edits The George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Newsletter, and his The Letters of G. H. Lewes will be published by the Ohio State University Press. Other projects include work on reader response theory with especial reference to Carlyle, Mill, Darwin, and T. S. Eliot.
Mark S. Sexton, Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Wake Forest University, received the doctorate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His recent work includes an essay on Thomas Wolfe published in the South Atlantic Review and an essay on Joseph Conrad published in Studies in Short Fiction.
David Leon Higdon, Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of English at Texas Tech University, is author of Shadows of the Past in Contemporary British Fiction and General Editor of Conradiana. He is currently writing a textual history of Graham Greene's novels.
Robert F. Sheard is a recent MA graduate of Texas Tech University and is now in the Ph.D. program at The Pennsylvania State University. His previous work has appeared in journals such as Studies in the Novel and Conradiana. He is currently working on a study of confessional narratives in contemporary British fiction.
John V. Richardson, Jr., Associate Professor in UCLA's Graduate School of Library and Information Science, teaches analytical bibliography. He is completing a biography of Pierce Butler, Curator of the Wing Foundation at the Newberry Library and Professor of Bibliographical History at the University of Chicago, which will be published by Scarecrow Press. his research in progress is a bibliographical description of printing ink.
R. M. Flores teaches Spanish at The University of British Columbia. He is preparing an annotated, old-spelling edition of Don Quixote.
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