Notes on Contributors

Judith Alpert, Professor of Applied Psychology at New York University, is also Clinical Assistant Professor and supervisor of the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at the university as well as a practicing psychoanalyst. She has edited four books and authored nearly 100 articles. Her most recent work focuses on psychoanalytic treatment and traumatic memories. Dr. Alpert served as cochair of the American Psychological Association's Working Group on the Evaluation of Memories of Childhood Abuse.

Marshall W. Alcorn, Jr. is Executive Director of APCS and Associate Editor of JPCS. He is the author of Narcissism and the Literary Libido and teaches in the English Department at The George Washington University.

John Bird is Head of the School of Sociology in the Faculty of Economics, University of the West of England. His main interests include the interface between the sociological and the psychoanalytic and the way universities can respond to the increasing ethnic diversity of students.

Thomas Catlaw is a doctoral student in the Program in the Human Sciences at The George Washington University in Washington, DC.

Simon Clarke is a lecturer and researcher in the School of Sociology at the University of the West of England, where he teaches Sociological Theory and Social Psychology. He is also an active member of the Psycho-Social Research Group at the Centre for Economic and Social Research (UWE). His research interests include the interface between psychoanalytic and sociological theory, racism and ethnic conflict, and the sociology of hate. He is currently researching racism and exclusion in higher education, and psychoanalytic interpretations of conflict and ethnic hatred.

Karen Coats is an assistant professor of English at Illinois State University, where she teaches children's and young adult literature. She is currently working on a book about the relationship between children's literature and subjectivity, and has published articles on children's te