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Notes on Contributors
G. Thomas Tanselle, is Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and Adjunct professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. A new collection of his essays, many of which first appeared in Studies in Bibliography, has recently been published under the title Textual Criticism and Scholarly Editing; his 1990 Malkin Lecture, Libraries, Museums, and Reading, is also now available in print.
Robert Adams is Professor of English at Sam Houston State University. His main work has been on the theological background of Piers Plowman, but he has also published articles on Chaucer and the medieval cycle plays. Essays on textual issues associated with Langland have appeared in Medium Aevum and Yearbook of Langland Studies. He is currently working on a critical edition of the B-version of Piers Plowman.
Simon Cauchi was formerly Senior Lecturer in Librarianship at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where also he graduated MA (1981) and PhD (1987) in English. His edition of Harington's Sixth Book of Virgil's Aeneid has recently been published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Adrian Weiss (Associate Professor) teaches Shakespearean 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 compositorial analysis and font analysis. Relocation closer to rare-books collections is critical to the continuation of his work.
Alan Roper is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, author of essays on Restoration comedy, and a contributor to the California Edition of The Works of John Dryden, of which he was General Editor from 1978 to 1989.
Philip Ayres is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Monash University, Victoria, Australia. His most recent book is the Revels Plays edition of Jonson's Sejanus (Manchester University Press, 1990), and his current projects include a book on the Roman frame of mind in eighteenth-century England.
O M Brack, Jr., Professor of English at Arizona State University, is textual editor of the University of Georgia Edition of The Works of Tobias Smollett and editor of The Shorter Prose Writings of Samuel Johnson.
Mary Early is doctoral student at Arizona State University.
Graeme Slater has recently completed his D.Phil. thesis at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, and is currently working on various aspects of eighteenth-century historiography.
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.
G. E. Bentley, Jr., of the University of Toronto, has published books on William Blake, John Flaxman, and George Cumberland, and has written extensively on F. I. Du Roveray, The Edwardses of Halifax, and Thomas Macklin; his edition of George Cumberland's novel The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar (c. 1800) should be published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 1991. He is currently completing Blake Books Supplement for the Clarendon Press.
B. J. McMullin is a member of the Graduate Department of Librarianship, Archives and Records, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Helen V. Baron's doctoral thesis (University of Cambridge) was an investigation of the manuscripts of Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-42) and of the biblical sources for his religious poetry. She has published articles on Thomas Wyatt in The Library and English Manuscript Studies, and on D. H. Lawrence in Studies in Bibliography, Archiv, Essays in Criticism, and The Journal of the D. H. Lawrence Society of Eastwood. The edition of Sons and Lovers which she has recently completed with assistance from Carl Baron will be published by Cambridge University Press in spring 1992. Her edition of Lawrence's second draft of the novel, Paul Morel, together with the "Miriam Papers" and other related documents, will be published shortly thereafter.
Arthur Sherbo, Emeritus Professor of English at Michigan State University, is making a special study of eighteenth-century periodicals and is also preparing a book entitled Further Critical Opinions of Samuel Johnson.
Nancy D. Hargrove is a William L. Giles Distinguished Professor of English at Mississippi State University, where she teaches courses in Modern American Literature. She has held two Fulbright Lectureships in American Literature in France and in Belgium and has received a number of teaching awards, including the Excellence in Teaching Award from the South Atlantic Association of Departments of English. She is the author of Landscape as Symbol in the Poetry of T. S. Eliot and of numerous articles on various modern American and British writers.
James L. W. West III is Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park. He is at work on an edition of Dreiser's Jennie Gerhardt and is writing the authorized biography of novelist William Styron.
Ellery Sedgwick is Associate Professor of English at Longwood College. He has recently completed writing a history of the Atlantic Monthly from its founding in 1857 to 1909.
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