Meet the Editors
Nina Baym (General Editor and period editor, American Literature between the Wars, 1914–1945), Ph.D. Harvard University, is Swanlund Endowed Chair, Center for Advanced Study Professor of English, and Jubilee Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Many of her essays are collected in Feminism and American Literary History. She is the author of The Shape of Hawthorne’s Career; Women’s Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and about Women in America; Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America; American Women Writers and the Work of History, 1790–1860; and, most recently, American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences. In 2000 she received the Modern Language Association’s Hubbell Medal for lifetime achievement in American literary studies.
Wayne Franklin (editor, Literature to 1700), Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, is Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Northeastern University. He is editor, with Michael Steiner, of Mapping American Culture and author of the New World of James Fenimore Cooper and Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers: The Diligent Writers of Early America. He edited American Voices, American Lives: A Documentary Reader (Norton, 1997), and is the founding editor of the American Land and Life series. Professor Franklin is currently finishing work on a definitive biography of James Fenimore Cooper.
Ronald Gottesman (editor, American Literature, 1865–1914), Ph.D. Indiana University, is professor of English at the University of Southern California. Author, editor, and general editor of many works on textual scholarship, film, popular culture, genre, and American literature, he is general editor of Violence in America: An Encyclopedia.
Philip F. Gura (editor, American Literature, 1700–1820), Ph.D. Harvard University, is William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture and adjunct professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of seven books, including The Wisdom of Words: Language, Theology, and Literature in the New England Renaissance; A Glimpse of Sion’s Glory: Puritan Radicalism in New England, 1620–1660; and America’s Instrument: The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century. For ten years he was editor of the journal Early American Literature. He is an elected member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.
Jerome Klinkowitz (editor, Prose since 1945), Ph.D. Wisconsin, is University Distinguished Scholar and professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa. He is the author or editor of over twenty books on postwar culture and literature, among them, Structuring the Void: The Struggle for Subject in Contemporary American Fiction; Slaughterhouse Five: Reforming the Novel and the World; Literary Subversions: New American Fiction and the Practice of Criticism; and The Practice of Fiction in America: Writers from Hawthorne to the Present.
Arnold Krupat (editor, Native American Literatures), Ph.D. Columbia, is professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College. He is the author of Ethnocriticism: Ethnography, History, Literature; The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon; and For Those Who Come After: A Study of Native American Autobiography. He is editor of a number of anthologies, including Native American Autobiography: An Anthology and New Voices in Native American Literary Criticism. His most recent book is Red Matters: Native American Studies. With Brian Swann, he has also edited Here First: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers, which won the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Award for best book of nonfiction prose.
Hershel Parker (editor, American Literature, 1820–1865), Ph.D. Northwestern University, is H. Fletcher Brown Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons: Literary Authority in American Fiction, Reading "Billy Budd," and Moby-Dick as Doubloon. He is the editor (with Harrison Hayford) of the Norton Critical Editions of Moby-Dick and The Confidence-Man. Parker is Associate General Editor of the Northwestern-Newberry Writings of Herman Melville and the author of the standard biography of Herman Melville.
Patricia B. Wallace (editor, Poetry since 1945), Ph.D. University of Iowa, is professor of English at Vassar College. She is a contributing editor of The Columbia History of American Poetry; her work has also appeared in such journals as The Kenyon Review, The Sewanee Review, The Vassar Quarterly, and The South Carolina Review.
Instructor’s Manual Authors
Bruce Michelson (Ph.D. University of Washington) is professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and director of the Campus Honors Program. He is the author, most recently, of Literary Wit, as well as books on Mark Twain and Richard Wilbur, and numerous articles on American authors.
Marjorie Pryse (Ph.D. University of California-Santa Cruz) is professor of Women’s Studies at SUNY-Albany. She is co-editor of American Women Regionalists: A Norton Anthology, editor of Norton editions of Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs and Selected Stories of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, and editor of Mary Austin’s Stories from the Country of Lost Borders.
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