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Marjorie Ago&t is a Chilean poet. She has written four books of poetry and two books of literary criticism. She is an assistant professor of Spanish at Wellesley College, apecialising in Latin American women writers. Carol Bnrash is a graduate student in the Department of English and the Program in Women’s Studies at Princeton University. Her dissertation studies fictions of language and authority in Restoration and early eighteenth-century women writers. Barhara Cbristiao is Associate Professor of AfroAmerican Studies at U.C. Berkeley. She is the author of Block Women Novelisrs, the Development of A Trodition18924976, Greenwood Press (1980). Teaching Guide to Block Foremothers, Feminist Press (1980), Block Feminist Criticism, Perspectives on Block Women Writers, Pergamon Press (1985) and an editor at Feminist Studies. Block Women Novelists, the first book on this subject won the
Before Columbus American Book Award in 1983. Her essays on black women writers have appeared in man) literary and academic journals. Cathy N. Davidson. Professor of English at Michigan State University. is co-editor. with E. M. Broner. of 7hc Lost Tradition: Mothers and Daughters in Literature (1980). as well as the author of numerous articles on American and Canadian women’s fiction. This year Oxford University Press has published her book on the politics of literary canonization. entitled Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the American Novel.
Mary Evans was born in Essex in 1946 and educated at the London School of Economics and the University of Sussex. She is the author and editor of Work on Women (with David Morgan). Lucien Golmonn: An Introduction, The Woman Question, Sexual Divisions: Patterns and Processes Unperson) and Simone de Beauvoir: A Feminist Mandarin. Mary Evans teaches women’s studies
(with Clare
and sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Helena For&s-Scott was born and educated in Sweden; receiving her first degree from the University of Gbteborg in 1969 and her Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen. Scotland in 1978. She is currently working as part-time tutor for W.E.A. (New Opportunities for Women and similar courses) and has published a number of articles. chiefly about Swedish women novelists. She is working on a book about Elin Wagner’s novels and, as a member of a huge team, on a history of women’s writing in the Scandinavian countries.
Cola F-rem is a poet and a translator. She has translated the works of several Latin American poets, including Saul Yurkievich, Juan Cameron and Marjorie Agosin. Angela Ingram recently helped establish a Women’s Studies programme at Southwest Texas State University, where she has taught English since 1979. Carolyn L. Karcher
is the author of Shadow over the Promised Land: Slavery, Race and Violence in Melville’s Americo (Louisiana State University Press, 1980) and of numerous articles and reviews. She has also prepared an annotated edition of Lydia Maria Child’s Hobomok and Selected Writings on Indians for Rutgers University Press’ American Women Writers Series (1986). She is currently writing a cultural biography of Child to be entitled The Woman of Letters as Political Activist and teaches English. American Studies and Women’s Studies at Temple University. Candida AM Lacey, assistant editor of Women’s Srudies International Forum, completed her D.Phil at the University of Sussex in 1985. She is the co-editor (with Dale Spender) of the forthcoming Women’s Source Library series (Routledge & Kegan Paul) and contributing editor to The Feminist Companion to Literature in English (Batsford. forthcoming). Having earned M.A. degrees in French from the University of Paris III and New York University in Paris. Tohe Levin completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1979 at Cornell University on ‘Ideology and Aesthetics in Neo-feminist German Fiction’. She now teaches English and Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland. European Division. and lives in Frankfurt. West Germany. where she is a member of Amnesty for Women, a group supportive of third world women’s projects. Helena Lewis is a cultural historian of twentieth century France. She received a B.A. from Radcliffe and a Ph.D. from New York University and is on leave from Appalachian State University in North Carolina. She writes on the Surrealists. the popular literature of French colonialism. the French Communist party. the Resistance, revolutionary women in France and Russia and is currently writing a biography of Elsa Triolet. Amy Ling was born in Beijing. China and emigrated to the United States at the age of six. After completing a Ph.D. thesis in Comparative Literature on traditional white male writers, she discovered her real research interests: Ethnic 449
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American literature and feminist scholarship. She has published several articles on women writers of Chinese Ancestry in such journals as MELUS and American Literary Realism and is nearing completion of a book on the subject. She is a sometime poet and painter and lives in New Jersey with her husband and two small children. Yolanda Aatarlta Patterum is a Profeasor of French at California State University. Hayward, where she teaches courses in French language and literature and in Women’s Studies. She has recently received the Outstanding Professor award for the year 1985-6. She received her B.A. degree magna cum laude in French from Smith College and her MA. and Ph.D. in French from Stanford Universitv. She is a founding member and current president _ of the international Simone de Beauvoir So&v. Her June 1978 interview with Simone de Beauvoir appeared in the April 1979 French Review. In September 1985 she interviewed the author about her ideas about motherhood and maternity and will use the text of that interview in a book she is preparing
on the subject. Deborah SUverton Rosenfelt is Professor of Women Studies and Coordinator of the Women Studies Program at San Francisco State University. She has written numerous articles on women’s studies and on women and literature. A member of the editorial board of Feminist Studies and a contributing editor to the Women’s Studies Quarterly, she is currently co-writing a film on older women and working on women’s literature of the 1930s. Most recently, she coedited Feminist Criticism and Social Change, an anthology of essays from a materialist feminist perspective (Methuen. 1986). Susan SeBera is involved in literary research at the Centre d’Etudes Feminines in Paris. and is currently writing her doctoral thesis on Helene Cixous and a book on feminist critical theory. She gives occasional lectures and seminars on women’s literature and feminist criticism and also works part-time as a freelance journalist.
Forum. Vol.
9. No. 4. pp. 449-60.1986
u.m+.ao
om-53951s6
Q l9S6 t’eqatttott
Rimed in Gnat Britain.
J-
Ltd.
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS
Marjorie Ago&t is a Chilean poet. She has written four books of poetry and two books of literary criticism. She is an assistant professor of Spanish at Wellesley College, apecialising in Latin American women writers. Carol Bnrash is a graduate student in the Department of English and the Program in Women’s Studies at Princeton University. Her dissertation studies fictions of language and authority in Restoration and early eighteenth-century women writers. Barhara Cbristiao is Associate Professor of AfroAmerican Studies at U.C. Berkeley. She is the author of Block Women Novelisrs, the Development of A Trodition18924976, Greenwood Press (1980). Teaching Guide to Block Foremothers, Feminist Press (1980), Block Feminist Criticism, Perspectives on Block Women Writers, Pergamon Press (1985) and an editor at Feminist Studies. Block Women Novelists, the first book on this subject won the
Before Columbus American Book Award in 1983. Her essays on black women writers have appeared in man) literary and academic journals. Cathy N. Davidson. Professor of English at Michigan State University. is co-editor. with E. M. Broner. of 7hc Lost Tradition: Mothers and Daughters in Literature (1980). as well as the author of numerous articles on American and Canadian women’s fiction. This year Oxford University Press has published her book on the politics of literary canonization. entitled Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the American Novel.
Mary Evans was born in Essex in 1946 and educated at the London School of Economics and the University of Sussex. She is the author and editor of Work on Women (with David Morgan). Lucien Golmonn: An Introduction, The Woman Question, Sexual Divisions: Patterns and Processes Unperson) and Simone de Beauvoir: A Feminist Mandarin. Mary Evans teaches women’s studies
(with Clare
and sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Helena For&s-Scott was born and educated in Sweden; receiving her first degree from the University of Gbteborg in 1969 and her Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen. Scotland in 1978. She is currently working as part-time tutor for W.E.A. (New Opportunities for Women and similar courses) and has published a number of articles. chiefly about Swedish women novelists. She is working on a book about Elin Wagner’s novels and, as a member of a huge team, on a history of women’s writing in the Scandinavian countries.
Cola F-rem is a poet and a translator. She has translated the works of several Latin American poets, including Saul Yurkievich, Juan Cameron and Marjorie Agosin. Angela Ingram recently helped establish a Women’s Studies programme at Southwest Texas State University, where she has taught English since 1979. Carolyn L. Karcher
is the author of Shadow over the Promised Land: Slavery, Race and Violence in Melville’s Americo (Louisiana State University Press, 1980) and of numerous articles and reviews. She has also prepared an annotated edition of Lydia Maria Child’s Hobomok and Selected Writings on Indians for Rutgers University Press’ American Women Writers Series (1986). She is currently writing a cultural biography of Child to be entitled The Woman of Letters as Political Activist and teaches English. American Studies and Women’s Studies at Temple University. Candida AM Lacey, assistant editor of Women’s Srudies International Forum, completed her D.Phil at the University of Sussex in 1985. She is the co-editor (with Dale Spender) of the forthcoming Women’s Source Library series (Routledge & Kegan Paul) and contributing editor to The Feminist Companion to Literature in English (Batsford. forthcoming). Having earned M.A. degrees in French from the University of Paris III and New York University in Paris. Tohe Levin completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1979 at Cornell University on ‘Ideology and Aesthetics in Neo-feminist German Fiction’. She now teaches English and Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland. European Division. and lives in Frankfurt. West Germany. where she is a member of Amnesty for Women, a group supportive of third world women’s projects. Helena Lewis is a cultural historian of twentieth century France. She received a B.A. from Radcliffe and a Ph.D. from New York University and is on leave from Appalachian State University in North Carolina. She writes on the Surrealists. the popular literature of French colonialism. the French Communist party. the Resistance, revolutionary women in France and Russia and is currently writing a biography of Elsa Triolet. Amy Ling was born in Beijing. China and emigrated to the United States at the age of six. After completing a Ph.D. thesis in Comparative Literature on traditional white male writers, she discovered her real research interests: Ethnic 449
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American literature and feminist scholarship. She has published several articles on women writers of Chinese Ancestry in such journals as MELUS and American Literary Realism and is nearing completion of a book on the subject. She is a sometime poet and painter and lives in New Jersey with her husband and two small children. Yolanda Aatarlta Patterum is a Profeasor of French at California State University. Hayward, where she teaches courses in French language and literature and in Women’s Studies. She has recently received the Outstanding Professor award for the year 1985-6. She received her B.A. degree magna cum laude in French from Smith College and her MA. and Ph.D. in French from Stanford Universitv. She is a founding member and current president _ of the international Simone de Beauvoir So&v. Her June 1978 interview with Simone de Beauvoir appeared in the April 1979 French Review. In September 1985 she interviewed the author about her ideas about motherhood and maternity and will use the text of that interview in a book she is preparing
on the subject. Deborah SUverton Rosenfelt is Professor of Women Studies and Coordinator of the Women Studies Program at San Francisco State University. She has written numerous articles on women’s studies and on women and literature. A member of the editorial board of Feminist Studies and a contributing editor to the Women’s Studies Quarterly, she is currently co-writing a film on older women and working on women’s literature of the 1930s. Most recently, she coedited Feminist Criticism and Social Change, an anthology of essays from a materialist feminist perspective (Methuen. 1986). Susan SeBera is involved in literary research at the Centre d’Etudes Feminines in Paris. and is currently writing her doctoral thesis on Helene Cixous and a book on feminist critical theory. She gives occasional lectures and seminars on women’s literature and feminist criticism and also works part-time as a freelance journalist.