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University in Clarksville, Tennessee, where she is now an associate professor. Most of her work has been in contemporary southern literature.

Harry McBrayer Bayne, associate professor of English at Brewton-Parker College in Mount Vernon, Georgia, teaches Southern, romantic, and Victorian literature. He is at work on a critical biography of musician and author Henry Bellamann.

Joseph E. Becker earned his Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of Arkansas, where he specialized in European romanticism. He plans to expand his dissertation into a book and explore romantic myths and archetypes.

Bruce R. Berglund is assistant director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Kansas, where he completed his Ph.D. in East European history. A former Fulbright Fellow in the Czech Republic, he has published articles on Czech history in the journals Kosmas: Czechoslovak and Central European Journal, National Identities, Stredni Evropa, and Historie a vojenstvi.

Derek W. Blakeley earned a Ph.D. at Washington University in St. Louis, examining the career of Lord Curzon and the development of the Conservative Party in the twentieth century. He currently teaches history in Virginia.

Carol Blessing, Ph.D., is an associate professor of literature and women’s studies at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, where she teaches British and world literature, literary theory and scholarship, and women writers. She has had eight essays published in Reader’s Guide to Women’s Studies (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998), an article in Asides Magazine (The Shakespeare Theatre of Washington, D.C.) on the Duchess of Malfi, and works published on women in the church.

Lynn Z. Bloom is the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English and Aetna Chair of Writing at the University of Connecticut. Among her publications are Doctor Spock: Biography of a Conservative Radical (Bobbs-Merrill, 1972); the NEH-funded American Autobiography, 1945–1980: A Bibliography (Wisconsin, 1982); and two diaries of American women civilian prisoners in the Philippines in World War II: Natalie Crouter’s Forbidden Diary (Burt Franklin, 1980, 2001) and Margaret Sams’s Forbidden Family (Wisconsin, 1989, 1996). Her The Essay Canon is forthcoming from Wisconsin in 2004.

Geoffrey S. Cahn is chair of the History Department, Yeshiva University High School for Boys, New York, New York. As a cultural historian, he has contributed several articles for publications in music history. He received his Ph.D. from St. John’s University, New York. He lives with his wife and daughter in Riverdale, New York.

Donald Carlson holds a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Dallas. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas, and is a fellow at the College of Saint Thomas More. Dr. Carlson is also a principal and an English teacher at Trinity Valley School, a college preparatory school in Fort Worth.

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Peter E. Carr is a professional archaeologist, historian, and author. He is publisher and editor of the Caribbean Historical and Genealogical Journal.

Peter P. Catterall lectures in history and politics at Queen Mary, University of London. As well as editing the journal Contemporary British History, he is currently preparing a two-volume edition of Harold Macmillan’s diaries.

Kathleen M. Cioffi is a writer and editor at Associated University Presses. She has taught and directed in the United States and Poland and is the author of many articles and reviews about Polish theater as well as the award-winning book Alternative Theatre in Poland 1954–1989.

Jennifer Clary-Lemon is a teaching associate and doctoral candidate at Arizona State University. Her current research is in the area of critical multiculturalism, and has recently presented her findings at the Western States Composition Conference in Seattle and the Conference on College Composition and Communication in New York City.

Craig T. Cobane is an assistant professor of political science at Culver-Stockton College. His primary area of research is the tensions between civil liberties and national security policy. His numerous articles and essays have appeared in a variety of journals and encyclopedias. He is the recipient of several teaching awards.

Aaron N. Coleman, a graduate of Cumberland College, received his M.A. degree in History from the University of Louisville. He is currently a doctoral student at the University of Kentucky studying the American Revolution and the Early Republic. He lives in Lexington with his wife, Emily.

Arika L. Coleman holds bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees from Vermont College of Norwich University. She is currently an American studies Ph.D. candidate at the Union Institute and University. In addition, she is an adjunct professor of English at the University of Delaware as well as a lecturer and evaluator for the Delaware Humanities Speakers Bureau.

Philip M. Coupland earned his Ph.D. at the University of Warwick in 2000. He has published widely on British fascism, including articles in the Journal of Contemporary History and Twentieth Century British History. He served as a research assistant on the European Commission-funded project on “The Churches and European Integration.”

Don M. Cregier, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada, is a specialist in twentieth-century British and Irish history. He has published several books on the Liberal Party and a biography of David Lloyd George.

Brian Crim graduated from Rutgers University in 2003 with a Ph.D. in modern European history. His research interests are twentieth-century Germany and the Holocaust. Crim is currently an intelligence analyst for the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency, a component of Joint Forces Command.

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Terry Crowley of the University of Guelph in Canada has been teaching and writing Canadian history for more than 30 years. He is a graduate of Bishop’s, Carleton (Ottawa), and Duke universities.

Elena M. De Costa holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is currently an associate professor of Spanish at Carroll College in Wisconsin. She is the author of Collaborative Latin American Popular Theatre and numerous articles and book chapters on Spanish and Latin American politics, literature, and culture. She is currently completing a manuscript on visual and sound constructs in contemporary Hispanic poetry. Her research interests also include oral testimony, syntactic theory, and the verbal art of storytelling.

Yücel Demirer holds M.A. degrees from Fisk University and Istanbul University and is a Ph.D. candidate in the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures department of Ohio State University. She has recently edited The Second Palestinian Intifada: Before and After (2002).

Eva Dobozy teaches in the School of Education at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia, and is in the finishing stages of her doctoral degree. The title of her Ph.D. thesis is Democracy and Human Rights in Education: From Utopian Ideals to Grounded Practice. She has a special interest in alternative educational practices and human rights education as a tool for human emancipation.

Todd Douglas Doyle is employed in the tax department of the law firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky and Walker in New York City. He holds a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and a Ph.D. from the University of Toledo, where he completed a dissertation on Wall Street fiction.

Alexander Drace-Francis is a lecturer in Romanian studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London. He is the author of numerous articles on Romanian cultural history and a Ph.D. thesis (London, 2001) on literature and national identity in nineteenth-century Romania.

Jill E. Eichhorn is Assistant Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Austin Peay State University. As director of the Women’s Studies Program, she coordinates the Clothesline Project and forums on violence and women. She is working on the significance of public testimony through writing and the Clothesline Project in the healing of sexual trauma.

Peter C. Erb is professor of religion and culture at Wilfrid Laurier University at Waterloo, Ontario. He has published on the Radical Reformation, German pietism, German Catholicism in the romantic era, and British Anglo-Catholics and Roman Catholics in the nineteenth century. He is currently editing the Gladstone– Manning correspondence for Oxford University Press.

Peter R. Erspamer is a freelance writer and the author of the book The Elusiveness of Tolerance: The “Jewish Question” from Lessing to the Napoleonic Wars

(1997), which received the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award. He is

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currently completing his second book, The Holocaust and the Survival of Human Dignity.

Robert C. Evans has been, successively, Alumni Professor, Distinguished Research Professor, and Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of English at Auburn University, Montgomery. Although most of his research focuses on Renaissance writers, he has a secondary interest in short fiction and has published several essays on Flannery O’Connor.

Dina Ripsman Eylon is a former instructor of Jewish studies at the University of Toronto. She received her B.A. from Haifa University, an M.A. from Carleton University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. She is the publisher and editor of Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal.

Gentil de Faria, professor of comparative literature at Universidade Estadual Paulista–Unesp, Brazil, has written extensively on Anglo-American and Brazilian literature and culture, especially on influence issues. Currently he is working on the literary influences of Thomas Hardy and D. H. Lawrence upon Jose Lins do Rego, a major Brazilian novelist of the first half of the twentieth century. His doctoral dissertation was about the literary reception and influence of Oscar Wilde in Brazil.

Ricardo Faucci is professor of the history of economic thought at the University of Pisa, Italy. He was a founding member of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought in 1994, and served as president of the Italian Association for the History of Economic Thought, 1997–2001. His books include Luigi Einaudi (1986), Breve storia dell’economia politica (1988) and L’economia politica in Italia dal Cinquecento ai nostri giorni (2000). He has served as editor of the History of Economic Ideas since 1993.

Gillian Fenwick is associate professor of English at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Contributors’ Index to the Dictionary of National Biography 1885–1901; Leslie Stephen’s Life in Letters; Women and the Dictionary of National Biography; George Orwell: A Bibliography; and Understanding Tim Parks. She is currently writing a history of the Dictionary of National Biography and a book on Jan Morris.

Richard R. Follett received his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1996. His publications include Evangelicalism, Penal Theory and the Politics of Criminal Law Reform in England, 1808–1830 (2001). Dr. Follett currently teaches European history at Covenant College.

Tom Frazier is professor of English at Cumberland College, Williamsburg, Kentucky, and holds degrees in English from Cumberland College, Eastern Kentucky University, and Middle Tennessee State University. He continues his eclectic research interests by expanding an already completed manuscript on the Turner Thesis and examining literary presentations of Joan of Arc.

Jeff Frederick specializes in the twentieth-century history of the American South. He has written extensively on Southern politics and its relationship to society at

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large. His next major work will be a biography of George Wallace focusing broadly on policies, issues, and events within Alabama.

Robert Genter recently completed his Ph.D. in the department of history at Columbia University, where he studied American intellectual and cultural history. He has previously published in History of Philosophy Quarterly and Twentieth-Century Literature.

Indira Falk Gesink is the assistant professor for Middle Eastern and Asian history at Baldwin-Wallace College. She completed her Ph.D. examining the Azhar Reform Movement in Egypt during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She continues to research nationalism, religion, and educational reform in Egypt.

Rose Giltzow is a student at Roosevelt University, in Schaumburg, Illinois. She is an English major with a concentration in creative writing. Several of her poems and an interview article have been published in The Delano, a history journal published at Roosevelt and sponsored by the Kappa Upsilon Chapter.

E. Stanly Godbold Jr. is a professor of history at Mississippi State University. He has published several books, including Christopher Gadsden and the American Revolution (1981, with Robert H. Woody), and Confederate Colonel and Cherokee Chief: The Life of William Holland Thomas (1990, with Mattie U. Russell, Winner of the Thomas Wolfe Literary Prize, 1991). He is currently writing a biography of Jimmy Carter.

Ernst Grabovszki received his doctorate in comparative literature at the University of Vienna, where he is a lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature and an assistant editor of the Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur. He is the author of Methoden und Modelle der deutschent (2002) and has coedited Literature in Vienna at the Turn of the Centuries: Continuities and Discontinuities Around 1900 and 2000 (2002).

Richard J. Gray II is a Ph.D. candidate in French and francophone literature at the University of Texas at Austin. He is writing a dissertation on French radio drama from the interwar to post–World War II periods.

Tara D. Green, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of English at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She teaches African American literature and contemporary American literature. Her recent article, “Mother Dearest: The Motivations of Tina McElroy Ansa’s Mudear” is published in The Griot, Spring 2002.

Erika Haber received her Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literatures from the University of Michigan in 1993. Currently an associate professor at Syracuse University, she has published Myth of the Non-Russian: Iskander and Aitmatov’s Magical Universe (2003), Russian-English/English-Russian Dictionary and Phrasebook (2003), and Mastering Russian (1994).

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Jennifer Harrison studied American social history at the University of Richmond, where she earned a master's degree. Her research focused on nineteenth-century secondary schooling for women in Virginia. She currently serves as a technology support specialist at the College of William and Mary.

Susan Hamburger (Ph.D., Florida State University, 1995), manuscripts cataloguing librarian at Penn State University, has published essays in Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Nineteenth Century, 1800–1914 (2001), American Book and Magazine Illustrators to 1920 (1998), Encyclopedia of Rural America (1997), and American National Biography (1999), and a chapter in Before the New Deal: Southern Social Welfare History, 1830–1930 (1999).

Colin Hill is a Ph.D. candidate and sessional lecturer at McGill University in Montreal working on a dissertation entitled “Realizing Modernism: Prose Fiction in Canada, 1920–1950.” He is coeditor of English Canadian Literary Anthologies: An Enumerative Bibliography, and has published on a variety of aspects of Canadian literature.

Paul Allan Hillmer is professor of history at Concordia University in St. Paul, Minnesota. A graduate of the University of Minnesota, he has also contributed to the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, Dictionary of Cleveland Biography, and Encyclopedia of the Home Front: WWI & WWII.

J. Brandon Hinman holds a B.A. in philosophy from Furman University. He has lived and studied in Chile, Norway, and China. His interest in Che stems from a Lilly Endowment–funded trip to Cuba in 2001, where he worked on the photo documentary 40 Years, 40 Days.

Arthur Holst earned his Ph.D. from Temple University in 1999 when he was serving as executive director of the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia (1996–99). Since becoming government affairs manager for the Philadelphia Water Department, he has published widely on environmental topics in a variety of newspapers, journals, and magazines.

Richard P. F. Holt is associate professor of economics at Southern Oregon University. He has published in many scholarly journals such as the Review of Political Economy, the Eastern Economic Journal, and the Journal of Economic History. He is coeditor of Economics and Discontents: Twentieth Century Dissenting Economist and the New Guide to Post Keynesian Economics. He also serves as general editor and electronic manager of Post Keynesian Thought.

Ulle V. Holt was visiting assistant professor in history at Brown University in 2001–2. She is currently an adjunct lecturer at Brown in the International Relations Program while turning her dissertation, “Style, Fashion, Politics, and Identity: The Ballets Russes in Paris from 1909–14,” into a book. She is also doing research on treatment of women political prisoners in the twentieth century.

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Phil Huckelberry has a B.A. in history and political science from Illinois Wesleyan University (1998) and an M.A. in history from Ohio State University (2001) with an emphasis on twentieth-century American history. His M.A. thesis is entitled “In Proseperity’s Wake: A Study of Community and Economic Stagnation in Centralia Illinois, 1938–1978.”

Daniela Hurezanu received her Ph.D. in Romance languages and literatures from the University of Florida, and her DEA from the Universite de Stasbourg II. She currently serves as a lecturer in French at Arizona State University.

Millie Jackson is an associate librarian at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, where she is the head of periodicals. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Michigan State University. Her research interests include nineteenth-century women’s reading practice and popular culture.

Allan Johnston is a lecturer at DePaul University and at Columbia College, Chicago. He has written on William S. Burroughs for Review of Contemporary Fiction and for the Dictionary of American Literary Characters. Other studies of modern and contemporary literature have appeared in Twentieth Century Literature, ISLE, and AUMLA.

Guillemette Johnston is a professor of French at DePaul University. A specialist in Jean-Jacques Rousseau, she has also written on Frantz Fanon for the Dictionary of Literary Biography and regularly teaches courses on African and West Indian francophone literature.

Andrzej Karcz is an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas. He is a specialist in nineteenthand twen- tieth-century Polish literature, formalism, literary theory, and Polish prose fiction. He has published articles on many Polish and Russian authors, as well as Polish autobiography and American literary criticism. He is author of the upcoming book,

The Polish Formalist School and Russian Formalism.

Barry Keane has recently completed his doctorate at Trinity College Dublin on the Polish inter-war poetry group, Scamander. He is a renowned translator of and commentator on the Polish Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski. Currently he is a senior lecturer at Warsaw University’s English Department.

Anne Kelsch is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of North Dakota. She completed her Ph.D. in history at Texas A&M University in 1993, writing on Lord Beaverbrook’s introduction into the British political world, 1910–18. More recently she has published articles on the Selkirk settlement in the Red River Valley of North Dakota and Manitoba.

Stephen L. Keck teaches historiography and modern European intellectual history at the National University of Singapore. His research is focused on John Ruskin, mid-Victorianism and British perceptions of Burma. He has also taught European history at the College of Charleston.

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Padraic Kennedy is an assistant professor of history at McNeese State University in Louisiana. In 1996, he received his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, where he completed a dissertation entitled: “Political Policing in a Liberal Age: Britain’s Responses to the Fenian Movement, 1858–1868.”

Susan Eastbrook Kennedy, professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University, earned her Ph.D. at Columbia University. She is the author of books on the banking crisis of 1933 and on working-class women in America. A former Guggenheim fellow, she is currently writing a book of essays about Herbert Hoover after the presidency.

Michael Keren, a native of Israel, is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Communication, Culture and Civil Society at the University of Calgary. He is the author of many books and articles on intellectuals and politics, political communication, and Israeli political culture.

Rosemary King is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Fine Arts at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Her area of specialty, literature of the U.S.–Mexico borderlands, is highlighted in her forthcoming book, Border Confluences: Narratives from the Mexican War to the Present (University of Arizona Press, 2004).

Cynthia A. Klima researched her Ph.D. in German from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is associate professor of German and Slavic languages at SUNY–Geneseo. Her major research includes Prague German-Jewish-Czech literature, the cultural history of the Czech lands, and Russian literature. She has contributed to the Reader’s Guide to Judaism, Guide to Holocaust Literature, and History in Dispute: The Holocaust.

Cassandra Noel Kreischer grew up in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. She is a member of Phi Theta Kappa and was recognized in Who’s Who among College Students. Currently, she is a student at Roosevelt University, majoring in English and minoring in journalism.

Yves Laberge is film historian and associate professor at the Department of Sociology at Université Laval in Québec City, Canada. His articles have appeared in

CinémAction, International Journal of Canadian Studies, Hermès, and Laval théologique et phiosophique. He has served as guest editor for a number of refereed journals including Cahiers de l’imaginaire, Cap-aux-Diamants, Revue d’histoire du Quebec, and Museum International.

Theodoros Lagaris studied political science and sociology in Athens and Berlin. He received his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin for a study on the authoritarian state in Greece after the Second World War. He is currently a lecturer in political science and working on a project about democratization in southern Europe.

D. S. Lawson is associate professor of English at Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina, where he also serves as director of Honors and International Programs. He has published widely in postwar British and American literature,

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including essays on Joe Orton, David Storey, James Merrill, Lanford Wilson, David Leavitt, and Craig Lucas, as well as on AIDS theater in New York.

Cyana Leahy is a bilingual writer and translator from Brazil. An associate professor at Rio’s Federal University, she earned a Ph.D. in literature education from London University. She has published books of poetry, essays, and short stories. She is the 1993–94 recipient of the ORS Award in England.

Cheryl Lemus is a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is expected to reach candidacy in 2003. Her interest is American history, with a focus on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, gender, emotions, consumerism, and public history. Her dissertation will look at Valentine’s Day and examine the commercialization of love and the shaming of the consumer.

Ludmilla L. Litus received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She has taught Russian, Ukrainian, and German at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. Her recent publications include “Intertextuality in Shkola dlia durakov Revisited: Sokolov, Gogol, and the Others”; “Two Paradigms for Teaching Russian Business Language”; and a biography, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov.

E. D. Lloyd-Kimbrel is a freelance writer/editor and sometime poet. She also is the assistant to the vice president for enrollment at Mount Holyoke College. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in English with concentrations in biography and medieval studies. She has published in several scholarly journals and academic reference works, including OUP’s American National Biography and Greenwood’s Biographical Dictionary of Literary Inf luences: The Nineteenth Century.

Sheri Spaine Long (Ph.D., UCLA) is an associate professor at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, where she teaches Spanish language and literature in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. She researches and publishes on Madrid studies and writes Spanish textbooks.

W. C. Lubenow, F.R.Hist.S., is professor of history at Stockton College of New Jersey. He is the author of The Politics of Government Growth (1971), Parliamentary Politics and the Home Rule Crisis (1988), and The Cambridge Apostles, 1820–1914. His current research includes a book on liberalism called Making Words Flesh: Authority, Society, and Thought in Modern Britain, 1815–1914 and a book on the British Roman Catholic peerage, 1815–1914.

Eric v.d. Luft (Ph.D., M.L.S.) is curator of Historical Collections at the State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University and is included in the fifty-fourth edition of Who’s Who in America, the twenty-seventh edition of

Who’s Who in the East, and the twenty-eighth edition of Dictionary of International Biography.

Scott Lupo is a lecturer in United States history at California State University, Sacramento, where he teaches introductory survey courses and an upper-division

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course in popular culture. His research focuses on apocalyptic thought in American popular culture. He holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Nevada.

Mitchell McNaylor earned an M.A. degree in history from Ohio State University, and is now an adjunct instructor at Our Lady of the Lake College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His most recent article on “G. M. Trevelyan” was published in the

Madison Historical Review (2003).

Linda Macrì received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Maryland in 2000. Her dissertation, currently being prepared for publication, was entitled “Revising the Story: A Rhetorical Perspective on Revisionary Fiction by Women Writers.”

Peter Mahon received his doctorate from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, where he is now a lecturer in the Department of English. His main research interests have to do with the texts of James Joyce and Jacques Derrida.

Wendy A. Maier is an adjunct professor of history, and is also an instructor for an adult general studies program. She has published several articles, book reviews, and essays. Research interests include the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, and early modern European women’s history.

George Mariz earned his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is professor of history and honors director at Western Washington University and has published widely on intellectual and cultural history. He is currently at work on a study of Thomas Arnold.

Robert O. Marlin IV is a graduate student in history at the University of Houston–Clear Lake and the John W. Stormont Recipient for “The Death Penalty Case of a Mexican National and the Pardon and Parole Reforms It Helped to Spawn,” South Texas Studies Journal, 2002.

Katherine Matthews recently earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Cumberland College in Williamsburg, Kentucky. She is preparing for a career with the U.S. State Department.

Laurence W. Mazzeno is president of Alvernia College, Reading, Pennsylvania. He is the author of four books and dozens of articles on Victorian and modern literature. He is currently working on Alfred Tennyson: The Critical Heritage (Boydell & Brewer, forthcoming 2004).

David A. Meier, professor of history, Dickinson State University, received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1990. Currently chair of the Social Science Department, he is a regular contributor to the German Studies Review and has written numerous articles on postwar German politics.

James Mellis is currently completing his Ph.D. dissertation at Tulane University in New Orleans. His dissertation, “Writing Blackface: An Analysis of Jewish and

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