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Contributors

Richard P. Benton, deceased, was Associate Professor Emeritus, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. He published poetry, as well as books and articles on Poe and on Comparative Literature topics. He also served on the editorial boards of Poe Studies, ATQ, ESQ, and UMSE.

Leonard Cassuto, Professor of English in Fordham University, has published on Dreiser, London, and the Grotesque.

Ruth Clements has taught in several academic institutions in California. She is currently Senior Lecturer of Advanced Writing at the University of Southern California. She has also been active in activities concerning the life-career of Poe.

Dennis W. Eddings, Emeritus Professor of English, Western Oregon University, and past Secretary-Treasurer of the Poe Studies Association, has published on Poe, Twain and others. Comic-ironic elements in Poe have been a special interest of his, and he has been active member in many American author organizations.

Benjamin F. Fisher, Professor of English, University of Mississippi, and a past president of the Poe Studies Association, has published books and articles on Poe, and in other areas of American and Victorian studies. He serves on editorial boards for Poe Studies, Victorian Poetry and many other professional journals.

Ronald Gottesman, Professor of English, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, is a renowned editor-anthologist of American literature.

Jerry A. Herndon, Emeritus Professor of English, Murray State University and retired Curator of the Jesse Stuart Collection there, has published articles on Hawthorne and Whitman, as well as on Poe.

Kent P. Ljungquist, Professor of English, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has published many studies of Poe and of New England writers. A past president of the Poe Studies Association, and editor of [page 224:] two volumes in the DLB Series, he serves on the editorial boards of Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism and Gothic Studies.

Edward J. Piacentino, Professor of English, High Point University, is the author of T. S. Stribling: Pioneer Realist in Modern Southern Literature, editor of several other books, many of which center on humor in Southern literature.

Joseph Rosenblum has a dual career in teaching and librarianship in the Greensboro, N. C. area. His particular area of interest has been eighteenth-century studies.

Christopher Scharpf, independent scholar, lives and works in Baltimore. He is a former employee of the Poe House there, and has been an active member of the Edgar Allan Poe Society.

Denise Schimp Magnuson, independent scholar, has major interests in Poe and Hawthorne. A graduate of Western Oregon University, she lives in Oklahoma.

Roberta Sharp, Lecturer Emerita, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and past Secretary-Treasurer of the Poe Studies Association, has published studies of Poe, Kay Boyle, Flannery O’Connor, and screen writing.

Patrick J. White, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Delaware.