Biography

Notes on Contributors Edward Barrett is Assistant Professor of English at New Jersey Institute of Technology where he teaches Greek and Latin literature. He is co-editor of The Newark Review. Michael Murphy was born in Ireland, and educated there and in England and the U.S. He has made a special study of the early scholars of Old English, and has published his research in Medieval Studies, Huntington Library Quarterly, English Studies, Durham University Journal, and elsewhere. Elihu Hessel Pearlman teaches at the University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, Colorado, 80202, where he is Chair of the Departments of Communication and English. His essays on the relation between autobiography and art in Ben Jonson and George Herbert have recently appeared in English Literary Renaissance. Bruce Redford, Assistant Professor of English and the Humanities at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, is completing a book on the familiar letter in eighteenth-century England. David E. Schwalm, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso and Director of the graduate program in Professional Writing and Rhetoric, has written several other articles exploring how a rhetorical view of biography can help us understand how biographies are written and read. Paul Theerman is assistant editor of the Joseph Henry Papers project , based at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 20560. His interests are the history of British and American science in the nineteenth century, especially the popularization of science. ...