Notes on Contributors

Marshall Alcorn is an Associate Professor of English and the Human Sciences at George Washington University. He is Executive Director for APCS and a Member of the Board of Directors for the Forum on Psychiatry and the Humanities. His books include Narcissism and the Literary Libido (NYUP, ) and Changing the Subject in English Class (SIUP, ).

William Banks is finishing his Ph.D. in English Studies at Illinois State University. His work focuses on the intersections among theories of composition and rhetoric, queer subjectivities, and pedagogy.

Charles Bazerman, Professor and Chair of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has interests in the rhetoric of science and technology, writing across the curriculum, rhetorical theory, and the history of literacy. His most recent book, The Languages of Edison's Light, examines the rhetorical and representational work that made Edison's incandescent light a social reality. Previous books include Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science ; Constructing Experience-, Textual Dynamics of the Professions; Involved: Writing For College, Writing For Your Self and The Informed Writer: Using Sources in the Disciplines.

Jeffrey Berman is Professor of English at the University at Albany. He is the author of Joseph Conrad: Writing as Rescue; The Talking Cure; Narcissism and the Novel; Diaries to an English Professor; Surviving Literary Suicide; and Risking Writing. He is a recipient of the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Peter Braham lectures in Sociology at the Open University. He has had a longstanding interest in various aspects of race, immigration, and ethnicity in the United Kingdom encompassing the labor market and equal opportunity, the mass media, and policing. He is currently working on several research projects funded by the European Union that explore different aspects of immigration in Western Europe, including the UK. He is one of the co-editors of A