CONTRIBUTERS

• Sarah Clere is a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is completing a dissertation on Willa Cather. Her work has appeared in Mississippi Quarterly.
• Mark A. R. Facknitz is a professor of English at James Madison University, where he has taught since 1983. His essay on Willa Cather’s frontier gardens appeared in Cather Studies 5. From the Shenandoah, he reports that his nostalgia for trains and prairies is as fierce as an amputee’s longing for a missing limb.
• John H. Flannigan is a professor of English at Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, Illinois. His essays on Cather have appeared in Cather Studies 2, Studies in Short Fiction, Modern Fiction Studies, and elsewhere.
• Richard C. Harris is the John J. McMullen Professor of Humanities and assistant dean at Webb Institute on Long Island. He has published on Willa Cather in a number of journals, including Cather Studies, Studies in American Fiction, the Journal of Narrative Theory, the Midwest Review, and the Willa Cather Newsletter and Review. He was the volume editor for the Scholarly Edition of Cather’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel One of Ours (Nebraska, 2006).
• Amber Harris Leichner is a doctoral candidate in English with a Women’s and Gender Studies specialization at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her scholarly and creative work has appeared in Teaching the Harlem Renaissance, the Dos Passos Review, Relief, and elsewhere. She teaches courses in writing, literature, and women’s and gender studies at UNL.
• Melissa J. Homestead is Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of English and program faculty in women’s and gender studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the author of American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822–1869 (2005) and many essays on American women authors, such as Susanna Rowson, Catharine Sedgwick, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Willa Cather. She is at work on a digital edition of Every Week Magazine (1915–18), of which Edith Lewis, Cather’s domestic partner, was managing editor.
• Joyce Kessler is chair of the Liberal Arts Environment and associate professor of English at the Cleveland Institute of Art. In addition to this article on Willa Cather, Dr. Kessler has published on subjects ranging from eighteenth-century gendered written language to the contemporary poetry of Derek Walcott. She is currently engaged in a study of the uses of visual culture in Willa Cather’s fiction.
• Matthew Lavin is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Iowa. He earned a master’s degree in American studies at Utah State University in 2006 and a bachelor’s degree from St. Lawrence University in 2002.
• Michelle E. Moore is a professor of English at the College of DuPage, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, where she teaches courses on American and European modern literature and film. She has published articles on William Faulkner, Don Delillo, Henry James, and Todd Solondz’s films.
• Julie Olin-Ammentorp is a professor of English and of gender and women’s studies at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. She has published essays on Henry James and Edith Wharton and is the author of Edith Wharton’s Writings from the Great War (2004). She has also published on the works of Willa Cather in Cather Studies 8 and the Willa Cather Newsletter and Review. She is currently working on a monograph tentatively titled “Edith Wharton and Willa Cather: Complementary Stories.”
• Diane Prenatt is a professor of English at Marian University in Indianapolis, where she teaches courses in American and European literature as well as the literature of Catholicism. She is especially interested in the construction of ethnic identity and the depiction of domestic acts in Cather’s fiction. She is currently working on a biography of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant.
• Guy J. Reynolds is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he also directs the Cather Project and serves as the general editor of the Cather Scholarly Edition. He is the author of Willa Cather in Context: Progress, Race, Empire (1996), Twentieth-Century American Women’s Fiction (1999), and Apostles of Modernity: American Writers in the Age of Development (2008).
• Kelsey Squire is an instructor and PhD candidate at Marquette University. Her dissertation investigates the manifestation of regional consciousness in American literature between 1860 and 1930. In addition to Cather and Fitzgerald, her dissertation addresses works by Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, John Muir, and various contributors to the Atlantic Monthly during the turn of the century.
• Janis P. Stout, professor emerita of Texas A&M University, has been a prolific Cather scholar for many years. She is the author or editor of Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World (2000), A Calendar of the Letters of Willa Cather (2002), Willa Cather and Material Culture (2005), and Picturing a Different West: Vision and Illustration in the Tradition of Cather and Austin (2007). Her latest book is This Last House: A Retirement Memoir (2010).
• John N. Swift teaches English and American literature at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He is the author of many essays on Cather and other modern authors, the coeditor of Willa Cather and the American Southwest (2002), and a past president of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation.