ESC: English Studies in Canada

CONTRIBUTORS PETER AYERS has written on Renaissance drama in a variety of journals; most recently “Stage, Page, and the Authority of Authorship: Reconsid­ ering The Alchemist and The Malcontent” appeared in Variations sur la lettre, le mètre et la mesure: Shakespeare (1997). He has also co-edited two anthologies of West Indian and West African writing. The late KRISTIN BRADY was the author of The Short Stories of Thomas Hardy (1982) and George Eliot (1992), as well as articles on Hardy, Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and feminist literary theory. At the time of her death in December 1998, she was writing a book on the discourse of the gypsy in British literature from William Wordsworth to Virginia Woolf. PAUL DENHAM teaches English-Canadian literature and has a particular interest in the literature of the Canadian prairies. He has written on Sinclair Ross, Dorothy Livesay, and Raymond Knister, and has co-edited several anthologies of Canadian writing, the most recent of which is Un­ der NeWest Eyes (1996). He is currently the Literary Review Editor of NeWest Review. MONICA FLEGEL recently returned to Canada from South Korea, where she was teaching English as a Second Language. She is currently working in a shelter for children in crisis while she ponders further studies in English. Her literary interests include the use of the fairy tale in nineteenth-century literature and the place of English studies in contemporary society. SUSAN GINGELL has edited The Bridge City Anthology: Stories from Saska­ toon (1991), E.J. Pratt on His Life and Poetry (1983), Pratt’s unpublished poems, and Pursuits Amateur and Academic: The Selected Prose (1995) of E.J. Pratt for his Collected Works. She is a founding member of the Ed­ itorial Board of this project. Gingell has also written monographs on Pratt and Robert Finch, as well as essays on pedagogy, women in academia, and postcolonial anglophone literatures. Her current project is studying the politics of language in Canadian feminist poetry. ELIZABETH D. HARVEY is the author of Ventriloquized Voices: Feminist Theory and Renaissance (1992) and co-editor of Women and Reason (1992) and Soliciting Interpretation: Literary Theory and Seventeenth-Century English Poetry (1990). She is currently completing one book on the dis­ course of midwifery in Ontario and is at work on another on early modern literature and medicine. For many years she was a colleague of the late Kristin Brady. ED HEIDT, a Roman Catholic priest, teaches a class on biography and au­ tobiography and is generally interested in non-fiction writing. His pub­ lications include Vision Voiced: Narrative Viewpoint in Autobiographical Writing (1991), The Image of the Church Minister in Literature (1993), and A Rhetoric for a Formation of Intention (1995). His play about Thomas Merton, Holding a Mirror to the Mountain, toured the Fringe festivals in 1995. TOM HENIGHAN, the author of seven books, including works of fiction and poetry, teaches Romantic literature, science fiction, mythology, and cre­ ative writing. He edited Brace New Universe: Testing the Values of Sci­ ence in Society (1980). His study of the fiction of Brian W. Aldiss will appear shortly. HILDA HOLLIS completed her doctoral dissertation on dialogism and the possibility of politics in George Eliot’s later novels at McMaster Univer­ sity. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in ESC, ELH, Victorian Poetry, Milton Studies, Blake Quarterly, and Various Atwoods (ed. Lor­ raine York). BERYL ROWLAND, Distinguished Professor Emerita of York University and Visiting Scholar at the University of Victoria, has published books on Chaucer, Symbolism, and Medieval Gynecology, as well as over one hun­ dred and fifty articles on various subjects. She is one of the editors of the ongoing Chaucer Variorum and an honorary consulting editor of Florilegium . LISA SALEM-WISEMAN is preparing a dissertation on representations of madness in the work of Timothy Findley. She has published articles and presented conference papers on Canadian and post-colonial literatures. JOSEPH SCANLON, a former Director of the Carleton School of Journal­ ism, was President, Research Committee on Disasters, International So­ ciological Association, from 1994 to 1998. His interest in disasters began in 1970. Since then, he has attended scores of emergency incidents and written more than one hundred case studies...