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G. Thomas Tanselle, Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and Adjunct Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, is currently serving as president of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. A collection of his essays entitled Literature and Artifacts will be published in the coming year.

Maura Ives is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A & M University. Her edition George Meredith's New Quarterly Magazine Publications, Including the Essay on Comedy is forthcoming from Bucknell University Press.

Ralph Hanna frequently writes about Middle English texts, manuscripts, and literary history.

P. J. C. Field is Professor of English at the University of Wales, Bangor. He has written a critical study and a biography of Malory, and revised Eugène Vinaver's standard critical edition. That led him to believe that Malory's text could be greatly improved by a radical reconsideration, which he is trying to give it.

Paul F. Reichardt is Professor of English and chair of the Department of Literature and Language at Northern Kentucky University. His current research focuses on the construction and design of BL MS Cotton Nero A.x., Art. 3, in which survive the unique texts of the Middle English poems Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

MacD. P. Jackson is Professor of English at the University of Auckland. He is an Associate General Editor of the Oxford Collected Works of Thomas Middleton. He edited The Revenger's Tragedy for the collection, and contributed to a companion volume an essay on Middleton's canon and chronology.

James A. Riddell is Professor of English at California State University, Dominguez Hills. His and Stanley Stewart's recent book is Jonson's Spenser (Duquesne University Press, 1995).

Harold Love, a Professor of English at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, is preparing an edition of Rochester for the Oxford English Texts series of Oxford University Press. His most recent book is Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-century England (1993).

Emily Lorraine de Montluzin is Professor of History at Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina. She is the author of The Anti-Jacobins, 1798 — 1800: The Early Contributors to the "Anti-Jacobin Review" (London,

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Professor G. E. Bentley, Jr., of University College, University of Toronto, is the author of Blake Records (1969) and its Supplement (1988), Blake Books (1977) and its Supplement (1995), and William Blake's Writings, 2 vols. (1978), and is currently writing a biography of Blake, as well as working on printed English Bible illustrations 1539 — 1830 and Robert Bowyer and the illustration of National History c. 1800.

David Ketterer is Professor of English at Concordia University, Montreal. Previous to his University of Sussex D. Phil. (1969), he taught at McGill University, Montreal. He is the author of New Worlds for Old: The Apocalyptic Imagination, Science Fiction, and American Literature (1974), The Rationale of Deception in Poe (1979), Frankenstein's Creation: The Book, the Monster, and Human Reality (1979), Imprisoned in a Tesseract: The Life and Work of James Blish (1987), Edgar Allan Poe: Life, Work, and Criticism (1989), and Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (1992). He has edited The Science Fiction of Mark Twain (1984) and Charles Heber Clark's ("Max Adeler's") A Family Memoir (1995). Of related interest to the essay in this volume is his article "The Corrected Frankenstein: Twelve Preferred Readings in the Last Draft," English Language Notes (September 1995).

Shef Rogers is a Lecturer in English at the University of Otago, where he teaches and studies eighteenth-century verse and book history. He is currently researching the commercial and legal causes for the antagonism between Alexander Pope and Lewis Theobald.

Arthur Sherbo, Emeritus Professor of English at Michigan State University, is the author of Samuel Johnson's Critical Opinions: A Reexamination (1995) and has recently completed a study of "Henry James in the Periodicals."

James E. Kibler, Jr., of the University of Georgia, specializes in the antebellum South. He edits The Simms Review, has published four books on Simms, and several on other Southern writers. His edition of Simms's unpublished defense of poetry, Poetry and the Practical, will be issued by the University of Arkansas Press this coming year.