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Notes on Contributors

D. C. Greetham is Executive Director of the Society for Textual Scholarship, co-editor of its journal TEXT, and teaches textual scholarship and textual and literary theory at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is an editor of Trevisa and Hoccleve.

Peter L. Shillingsburg, Professor of English at Mississippi State University, is a former chairman of the Committee on Scholarly Editions, general editor of The William Makepeace Thackeray edition being published by Garland, and author of Scholarly Editing in the Computer Age and articles on editorial theory and practice in A&EB, PBSA, SB, and Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand.

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 Northwester-Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville. He has recently completed terms as president of the Grolier Club and of the Bibliographical Society of America. A new collection of his essays, many of which first appeared in Studies in Bibliography, is about to be published by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia under the title Textual Criticism and Scholarly Editing.

Johan Gerritsen is Professor Emeritus of English Language and Medieval English Literature in the University of Groningen, Netherlands, having in early days been with the Royal Library at The Hague. His main work, besides lexicography, is an analytical and textual bibliography and codicology. In recent years he has published on various Old English manuscripts, on the backgrounds of the Swan drawing, on the printing of the Dutch poet and dramatist Vondel, and on Plantin at work in and after October 1563.

Joseph A. Dane, Professor of English at the University of Southern California, is the author of The Critical Mythology of Irony (1991) and numerous articles on medieval literature and Chaucer.

Adrian Weiss (Associate Professor) teaches Shakespearian drama, Renaissance literature, and history of criticism. His research progresses in several directions: identifying the sets of matrices comprising hybrid typefaces in Elizabethan / Jacobean printing; sorting out the printing histories of standing-type (Malcontent, Eastward Hoe!, Fawne) and shared plays; and developing programs for computer-assisted compositor analysis and font analysis. Relo-

cation closer to rare-books collections is critical to the continuation of his work.

Kathleen Irace received her doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles, in December 1990. She is currently finishing her book on six Shakespearean "bad" quartos.

John Jowett, formerly editor of the Oxford Shakespeare, currently lectures in English Literature at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. As well as his contribution to the Oxford Shakespeare, he has published various articles, mainly on textual and related critical issues, and with Gary Taylor has co-authored the forthcoming book Shakespeare Reshaped, 1606-1623. He is working on the new Oxford edition of Thomas Middleton's works.

Clive Probyn is Professor and Chairman of English at Monash University, Victoria, Australia. His last book was English Fiction of the Eighteenth Century 1700-89 (1987), and his next is The Sociable Humanist: The Life and Works of James Harris (1709-80), to be published by Clarendon Press in 1990.

Emily Lorraine De Montluzin is Professor of History at Francis Marion College in Florence, South Carolina. She is the author of The Anti-Jacobins, 1798-1800: The Early Contributors to the "Anti-Jacobin Review" (London, 1988) as well as articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British press history.

James M. Kuist, is a Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of The Nichols File of "The Gentleman's Magazine," The Works of John Nichols: An Introduction, and various essays on this periodical and its publishers. He has also written on Gray, Chatterton, Malone, and Sterne.

Arthur Sherbo, Emeritus Professor of English at Michigan State University, is making a special study of eighteenth-century periodicals.

John R. Turner is a Lecturer in the Department of Information and Library Studies at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. He was the Managing Editor of Scholar Press Ltd. In the late 1960s and early 1970s. At present he is working on a history of the Walter Scott Publishing Co. of Newcastle-on-Tyne.

A. R. Atkins recently submitted his thesis entitled "Narrative Voice and Self-representation in D. H. Lawrence's Fiction, 1906-12" to the University of Cambridge, after a year on a Fulbright and a Wingate Scholarship at the University of Texas, Austin.

Paul Eggert is senior lecturer in the English Department, University College ADFA, Canberra. His editions of The Boy in the Bush (for the Cambridge University Press series The Works of D. H. Lawrence) and the conference proceedings Editing in Australia (English Department Occasional Paper 17, New South Wales Univ. Press) both appeared in 1990.

James E. Kibler, Jr., is Professor of English at the University of Georgia. He is the author of various articles on Southern literary figures and three books on William Gilmore Simms. His edition, Selected Poems of William Gilmore Simms, was published by the University of Georgia Press in 1990.