Literature of Travel and Exploration -- Contributors

Abad, Gabriel. Part-time lecturer, English, French and German Department, University of Málaga. Contributed to Encyclopedia of Life Writing edited by Margaretta Jolly (2001), Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies edited by John Hawley (2001), Violencia y Género: Actas del Congreso Interdisciplinar, edited by Maria Teresa López Beltrán et al. (2001), Solidaridad y Ciudadanía (1999), and Progreso Humano, Derechos Humanos (1999). Essays: Undersea Exploration.

Abdel-Hakim, Sahar Sobhi..Lecturer in English and Comparative Cultural Studies, Cairo University. Contributor to The Arabs and Britain: Changes and Exchanges (1998), Translation, edited by M. Enani and M. Abdel-Atty (1999), Interpreting the Orient: Travellers in Egypt and the Near East, edited by Paul and Janet Starkey (2001), Egypt through the Eyes of Travellers, edited by Paul Starkey and Nadia el-Kholy (2001), Modernism and Postmodernism: East and West (2001). Also to the journal Cairo Studies in English: Journal of the Department of English. Essays: Egypt, Islamic Travelers.

Adamo, Sergia, Lecturer, University of Trieste, Italy. Author of Dostoevskij in Italia (1998) and Ritratti di una citta' gentilissima e commerciale. Viaggiatori a Trieste tra Settecento e Novecento (2002). Contributor to Dizionario dei temi letterari, edited by R. Ceserani et al.(forthcoming), Translation Script Literacy edited by L. D'hulst and J. Milton (2000), Lo sguardo che viene da lontano. L'alterita' e le sue letture edited by E. Kanceff (2001). Also contributed articles to the journals Problemi, Comparatistica, Interlitteraria, Comparative World Report, among others. Essays: Ramusio; Russia; Sassetti

Alford, Steven. Professor of Liberal Arts, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Author of Irony and the Logic of the Romantic Imagination (1984). Contributor to British Travel Writers 1940[-]1997 (Dictionary of Literary Biography 204) edited by Barbara Brothers and Julia M. Gergits (1999). Essays: Motorcycles.

Allen, Nina.. Senior Lecturer in English, Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts.Author of "Gendered Travel Writing: The Case of M.F.K. Fisher" presented at Snapshots Abroad: A Conference on American and British Travel Writers and Writing (1997); "The American Scene According to Emily Faithfull, Victorian Feminist" presented at Writing the Journey: A Conference on American, British, and Anglophone Travel Writers and Travel Writing (1999). Essays: Women Travellers: 20th century.

Amigoni, David. Senior lecturer in English, Keele University. Author of Victorian Biography: Intellectuals and the Ordering of Discourse (1993), The English Novel and Prose Narrative (2000). Editor of Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species": New Interdisciplinary Essays (with Jeff Wallace,1995), Victorian Culture and the Idea of the Grotesque (with others, 1999). Essays: Darwin; Wallace.

Anderson, Sarah . Independent writer and scholar based in London. Owner of the Travel Bookshop in London. Author of Anderson's Travel Companion: A Guide to the Best Non-Fiction and Fiction for Travelling (1975) and the Virago Book of Spirituality: of Women and Angels (1996); and Inside Notting Hill (2001) and of many travel articles and book reviews. Was for many years judge for the Thomas Cool Travel Book Award. Essays: Stephens and Catherwood.

Araújo, Horácio. Assistant Professor of Portuguese Literature, Universidade Católica de Lisboa. Author of Língua Portuguesa (1992). Contributor to Literatura De Viagem - Narrativa, História, Mito (1997), Viagens No Texto E No Tempo (1998), Condicionantes culturais da literatura le viagens (1999), and Indagación: revista de história y arte. Editor of Ásia Extrema (1995) and Cartas Ânuas da China (1636, 1643 to 1649) (1998). Essays: Jesuit Narratives: Eastern Missions; Ricci.

Arnold, Guy. Independent writer and scholar based in London. Author of Kenyatta and the Politics of Kenya (1974), Heldfast for England: G.A. Henty, Imperialist Boys' Writer (1980), Britain since 1945 (1989), Brainwash: The Cover-Up Society (1992), and Wars in the Third World since 1945 (2nd edition, 1995). Also of numerous articles on African and third-world development in the journals West Africa, African Development, New Society, Middle East and the Economist Intelligence Unit. Essays:: Danube River; Sudan.

Asfour, Mohammad. Dean, Faculty of Arts, and Professor in the Department of English, University of Jordan. Contributed to Dirasat (1978), Notes on Rasselas (1981), Papers from the First Conference on the Problems of Teaching English Language and Literature at Arab Universities, edited by M.H. Ibrahím and Eid Dahiyat (1983), Dirasat (1985), Reading On: An Anthology for Students of Literature (1990), Ihsán Abbás, edited by Ibráhím al-Sacáfín (1997), Zaytúnat al-Manfá [Olive of Exile] edited by Jiryis Samáwí (1998), and Husám al-Khatíb Festschrift edited by Mohammad Sháheen (forthcoming). Editor of The Fourth International Conference on the History of Bilád al-Shám During the Byzantine Period (with Adnán al-Bakhít, 1986). Essays: Ibn Battuta.

Baker, William. Professor, Department of English, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. Author of Literary Theories: A Case Study in Critical Performance (with Julian Wolfreys, 1996), Twentieth-Century Bibliography and Textual Criticism (with Kenneth Womack, 2000), Wilkie Collins's Library: A Reconstruction (2001), and George Eliot: A Bibliographical History (with John C. Ross, forthcoming). Also contributed numerous articles to journals including Studies in Bibliography, The Library, Essays in Criticism, and Victorian Studies. Editor of Sir Walter Scott's Tales of a Grandfather: The History of France (with J.H. Alexander, 1996), The Letters of Wilkie Collins (with William M. Clarke, 1999), The Letters of George Henry Lewes (1995[-]),The Year's Work in English Studies (with Kenneth Womack, 2000), and George Eliot's, Felix Holt: The Radical (with Kenneth Womack, 2000). Essays: Kinglake.

Barker, Robert. Doctoral candidate and lecturer, Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies, University College London. Contributed to the journal Rumbos: The Chroniclers and the Historical Problems They Created (forthcoming). Essays: Pizarro.

Barr, William. Research Associate, Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary. Author of Back from the Brink: The Road to Muskox Conservation in the Northwest Territories (1991), The Expeditions of the First International Polar Year, 1882[-]83 (1985). Contributor to Naval History: The Seventh Symposium of the U.S. Naval Academy edited by W.B. Cogar (1988), Canada's Missing Dimension: Science and History in the Canadian Arctic Islands edited by C.R. Harington (1990), The Soviet Maritime Arctic edited by Lawson W. Brigham (1991), Imaging the Arctic edited by J.C.H. King and Henrietta Lidchi (with D. Walmsley 1998), Pacific Empires: Essays in Honour of Glyndwr Williams edited by Alan Frost and Jane Samson (1999). Editor of A Frenchman in Search of Franklin: De Bray's Arctic Journal, 1852[-]1854 (1992), To the Sixth Continent: The Second German South Polar Expedition, (1911[-]1913) (1994), Voyages to Hudson Bay in Search of a Northwest Passage, 1741[-]1747 (with Glyndwr Williams, 2 vols 1994[-]95), and Searching for Franklin: The Land Arctic Searching Expedition, 1855: James Anderson's and James Stewart's Expedition via the Back River (1999). Contributor to the journals Arctic, Aspects (Journal of the Newfoundland Historical Society), Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Canadian Geographic, Earth Sciences History, Geographical Journal, Manitoba History, Polar Geography and Geology, Polar Record, Terrae Incognitae, and The Beaver. Essays:: Amundsen; Back; Nansen; Ross, James; Ross, John; Stefansson; Ushakov.

Bassnett, Susan. Professor of Comparative Literary Studies and Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Warwick. Author of more than 20 books including Translation Studies (1991), Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction (1993), and Constructing Cultures (1998), and editor of Post-colonial Translation (with Harish Trivedi, 1999). Regular contributor to national newspapers. Essays: Introduction.

Baumgärtner, Ingrid. Professor of Medieval History, University of Kassel. Author of Martinus Garatus Laudensis: Ein italienischer Rechtsgelehrter des 15. Jahrhunderts (1986). Editor of Consilia im späten Mittelalter. Zum historischen Aussagewert einer Quellengattung (1995), Kunigunde: eine Kaiserin an der Jahrtausendwende (1997), Legal Consulting in the Civil Law Tradition (with others, 1999), Nordhessen im Mittelalter (with W. Schich, 2001), Die Rezeption des gelehrten Rechts im Regnum teutonicum (with P. Johanek, 2002, in print). Contributed to Mittelalter und Moderne, edited by P. Segl (1997), Hochmittelalterliches Geschichtsbeusstsein im Spiegel nichthistoriographisch Quellen edited by H.-W. Goetz (1998), Das Verdämmern der Macht, edited by R. Lorenz (2000), Juristische Buchproduktion im Mittelalter edited by V. Colli (2002), The Hereford and Other Mappaemundi edited by P.M. Barber and P.D.A. Harvey (2002), and Jerusalem im lateinischen Westen (and other volumes) edited by H. D. Bauer with others (2001). Also a contributor to many journals including Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, Historisches Jahrbuch, Journal of Medieval History among others. Essays: Conti.

Baylis, Gail. Part-time lecturer, Departments of English and Irish Studies, Media and Performing Arts, University of Ulster. Contributor to The Internationalism of Irish Literature and Drama edited by Joseph McMinn (1992), Introducing Literary Studies edited by Richard Bradford (1996), The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature edited by Robert Welch (1996), and the New Dictionary of National Bibliography (forthcoming). Essays: Caribbean: post 1700; England: 17th and 18th centuries; England: 19th century; Picaresque Novels; Smollett.

Behdad, Ali. Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at University of California, Los Angeles. Author of Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution (1994) and The Forgetful Nation: Reflections on Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States (forthcoming) and numerous essays on European travel literature, (post)colonial literature and theory. Essays: Orientalism.

Berghof, Oliver. Associate Professor, Literature and Writing Studies, California State University, San Marcos. Editor of A Voyage around the World by George Forster (with Nicholas Thomas, 2000). Specialist in 18th and early 19th-century European literature and literature of the Pacific. Essays: Forster, George; Seume; Tahiti.

Betz, Dorothy M. Associate Professor, Department of French, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Contributor to Victor Hugo I: approches critiques contemporaines, edited by Michel Grimaud (1994), Masterplots II: Short Story edited by Frank Magill (1996), Masterplots: Twentieth Century edited by Frank Magill (1996) and the journals Romance Quarterly, The Explicator, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Romance Notes. Associate Editor of Romance Quarterly and reviewer for that journal and The French Review, among others. Essays: Chateaubriand; Nerval.

Bilal, Kolby W. Graduate student, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. Researching African-American participation in the Virginia State Navy and the British Navy in Virginia during the Revolutionary War. Interested in the politics of mobility, with special reference to African-Americans. Essays: Byrd.

Birkwood, Susan. Instructor, Mount Royal College, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Author of "Different Sides of the Picture: Four Women's Views of Canada" (doctoral dissertation, 1997). Editor of an annotated edition of Anne Cuthbert Knight's 1816 long poem A Year in Canada (forthcoming). Contributed the article "True or False: Anna Jameson on the Position of Women in European and in Anishinaubae society" to Nineteenth-Century Feminisms (Spring 2000). Essays: Jameson.

Bishop, Peter. Associate Professor, School of Communications, Information & New Media, University of South Australia. Author of The Myth of Shangri-la: Tibet, Travel Writing and the Western Creation of Sacred Landscape (1989), Dreams of Power: Tibetan Buddhism and the Western Imagination (1993), An Archetypal Constable: National Identity and the Geography of Nostalgia (1995). Contributor to Sacred Spaces and Powerful Places in Tibetan Culture edited by Toni Huber (1999), edited Imagining Tibet by T. Dodin and H. Rather (2001), Constructing Tibetan Culture: Contemporary Perspectives edited by Frank J. Korom (1997). Also contributed articles to the journals Australian Journal of Communication, Studies in Travel Writing, Literature & History, Environment & Planning D: Society & Space, Ecumene, Landscape Research, and The Tibet Journal. Essays: Tibet.

Boavida, Isabel. Researcher, Centro de Estudos de Além-Mar, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Contributor to O Rosto feminino da expansăo portuguesa (1995) and the journals Mare Liberum and Arquipélago. Essays: Caminha; Lobo.

Boening, John. Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio. Contributor to Actes du VIIIe Congrčs de l'Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée (1980), Johann Gottfried Herder: Language, History, and the Enlightenment edited by Wulf Koepke (1990), Parodia, Pastiche, Mimetismo edited by Paola Mildonian (1997), Cultural Dialogue and Misreading edited by Yue Dai-Yun and Mabel Lee (1998), British Travel Writers, 1940[-]1997 (Dictionary of Literary Biography 204) edited by Barbara Brothers and Julia M. Gergits (1999) and The Paths of Multiculturalism: Travel Writing and Postcolonialsim (2000), ed. M.-A. Seixo et al. Editor of The Reception of Classical German Literature in England, 1760[-]1860 (1977), and Space and Boundaries in Literature/L'Espace et frontiéres dans la littérature, vol. 2 of the Proceedings of the Twelfth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (with others, 1990). Contributor of numerous articles and reviews on Anglo-German literary relations, comparative literary studies, and contemporary literature to Internationales Archive für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, Lessing Yearbook, Comparative Literature Studies, Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, Arcadia, World Literature Today, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, and Journal of European Studies. Essays: Greene.

Bohls, Elizabeth A. Associate Professor of English, University of Oregon, Eugene. Author of Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716[-]1818 (1995). Contributor to The Country and the City Revisited: England and the Politics of Culture, 1550[-]1850, edited by Gerald MacLean and others (1999), Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics and the Reconstruction of Art edited by Paul Mattick, Jr (1993) and to the journals European Romantic Review, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Life. Essays: Wollstonecraft.

Borm, Jan. Associate Professor in English at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. Editor of Bruce Chatwin's posthumous collection Anatomy of Restlessness ((with others, 1996). Contributor to Issues in Travel Writing: Empire, Spectacle and Displacement edited by Kristi Siegel (forthcoming), Gulliver's Travels edited by Georges Lamoine (2001), Etats de New York edited by Antoine Capet et al. (2000), Cartes, paysages, territoires edited by Ronald Shusterman (2000). Also contributed articles to the journals Etudes britanniques contemporaines, In'hui, Interfaces, Studies in Travel Writing. Essays: O'Hanlon.

Bowden, Betsy. Professor of English, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey. Author of Performed Literature (Words and Music) by Bob Dylan (2001), Listeners' Guide to Medieval English: A Discography (1988), Chaucer Aloud: The Varieties of Textual Interpretation (1987). Editor of Eighteenth-Century Modernizations from the Canterbury Tales (1991). Contributor to Folklore Interpreted edited by Regina Bendix and Rosemary Zumwaltt (1995), The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation edited by Daniel Woodward and Martin Stevens (1995) and the journals Notes & Queries, Harvard Library Bulletin, Oral Tradition, Journal of American Folklore, Translation and Literature, among others. Essays: Chaucer; Horseback; Pilgrimage: Christian.

Bradlow, Frank R. Deceased. Was Chairman of the Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town. Author (with Edna Bradlow) of Thomas Bowler of the Cape of Good Hope (1955), Here Comes the Alabama (1958), Baron von Ludwig and the Ludwigsburg Garden (1965), Thomas Bowler, His Life and Work (1976), The Early Cape Muslims (with Margaret Cairns, 1975), Africana Books and Pictures (1975), The Contribution of Thomas Baines to South Africa (1975), Wm. Somerville's Narrative of His Journey to the Eastern Cape Frontier and to Lattaoke, 1799[-]1802 (with Edna Bradlow, 1979). Contributed to many books and journals. Essays: Baines.

Brennan, Michael. Reader in Renaissance Studies, School of English, University of Leeds. Author of Literary Patronage in the English Renaissance: The Pembroke Family (1988). Editor of Lady Mary Wroth's Love's Victory: The Penshurst Manuscript (1988), The Travel Diary (1611[-]1612) of an English Catholic, Sir Charles Somerset (1993), of The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (with Margaret P. Hannay and Noel J. Kinnamon, 1998), The Travel Diary of Robert Bargrave, Levant Merchant, 1647[-]1656 (1999). Contributor of several articles on literature, patronage, travel writings (especially Western European, the Levant, and the New World), bibliography, women writers, and the Sidney and Herbert families in the period 1500[-]1750 to journals including Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, Archaeologia Cantiana, Cahiers Elisabethains, Catholic History Review, Connotations, English Manuscript Studies 1100[-]1700, Garden History, The Library, Music and Letters, Notes and Queries, Paris et Ile-De-France Mémoires, Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research, Review of English Studies, Sidney Journal, Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, University College Record, and Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine. Essays: David; France: pre-revolutionary; Istanbul; Ogilby; Peter Martyr; Shackleton, and Thévenot.

Bridges, Roy. Emeritus Professor of History, University of Aberdeen. Editor of second edition of J.L. Krapf's Travels, Researches and Missionary Labours, 1858 (1968). Contributor to Africa and its Explorers edited by Robert Rotberg (1970), The Exploitation of Animals in Africa edited by J.C. Stone (1988), The Times Atlas of World Exploration edited by Felipe Fernández-Armesto (1991), Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth edited by R.C. Bridges and P.E.H. Hair (1996), Imperialism, Decolonization and Africa edited by Roy Bridges (2000). Author of Newmachar Past and Present (2001) and several articles in the journals Uganda Journal, Geographical Journal, Terrae Incognitae, Paideuma, Studies in Travel Writing. Essays: Bruce; Burchell; Clapperton; Denham; East Africa; Hakluyt Society; Lander; Murchison; White Nile.

Brown, Sharon Rogers. Lecturer, School of Professional Development, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Contributor to North Atlantic Review, American Travel Narratives as a Literary Genre from 1542[-]1832, Reference Guide to American Literature edited by Thomas Riggs (2000), and St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture edited by Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast (2000). Essays: Nuńez Cabeza de Vaca.

Burns, William. Independent writer and scholar based in Washington, D.C. Author of The Scientific Revolution: An Encyclopedia (2001), An Age of Wonders: Prodigies, Politics, and Providence in England, 1657-1727 (2002). Contributor to The Millenarian Turn: Millenarian Contexts of Science, Politics, and Everyday Anglo-American Life in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, edited by James Force (2001), Rethinking the Scientific Revolution, edited by Margaret J. Osler (2000), Wonders, Marvels, and Monsters in Early Modern Culture, edited Peter G. Platt (1999). Contributor of several articles in the journals Harvard Theological Review, The Sixteenth Century Journal, Werkstatt Geschichte, Eighteenth Century Women, The Seventeenth Century. Essays: Alexander Dalrymple.

Byrnes, Giselle. Lecturer in Department of history, Victoria University of Wellington. Author of Boundary Markers: Land Surveying and the Colonisation of New Zealand (2001) and several articles on colonial land surveying and exploration and the Treaty claims process. Essays: New Zealand.

Cabellero, Soledad M. Essays: Calderón de la Barca, Frances.

Cabańas, Miguel A. Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, USA. Contributor to American Women Prose Writers, 1820[-]1870 (Dictionary of Literary Biography 239) edited by Katharine Rodier and Amy Huddock (2001) and to the journals Hispanófila (article on Alfredo Bryce Echenique's Tantas Veces Pedro and the picaresque novel) Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana (article on El Matadero by Esteban Echeverría), Torre de Papel (article on Miguel de Unamuno's San Manuel Bueno, mártir), and INTI (book reviews). Essays: Martí; Sarmiento.

Cardinal, Roger. Professor of Literary and Visual Studies, School of Arts and Image Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury. Author of Surrealism: Permanent Revelation (with Robert Stuart Short, 1970), Outsider Art (1972), Figures of Reality: A Perspective on the Poetic Imagination (1981), The Landscape Vision of Paul Nash (1989), and Private Worlds: Classic Outsider Art from Europe ((with John Beardsley, 1998). Editor of Sensibility and Creation: Studies in Twentieth-Century French Poetry (1977), Outsiders: An Art without Precedent or Tradition (1979). Editor (with Jas Elsner) of The Cultures of Collecting (1994), and of Messages d'Outre-Monde (with Martine Lusardy, 1999). Contributor to many books including Rewriting the Self: Histories from the Renaissance to the Present edited by Roy Porter (1997), and Publications of the English Goethe Society (1998). Essays: Cendrars; fantasy travel; Ségalen.

Carens, Timothy L. Assistant Professor of English, College of Charleston, South Carolina. Conributor to Reality's Dark Light: The Transgressive Wilkie Collins, edited by Maria Bachman and Donald Cox (2001) and the journals Dickens Studies Annual, Studies in English Literature. Essays: Royal Asiatic Society.

Castillo, Susan. John Nichol Professor of American Literature, University of Glasgow. Author of Notes from the Periphery: Marginality in North American Literature and Culture (1995). Editor of Engendering Identities (with Victor Da Rosa, 1996), and Native American Women in Literature and Culture (1997), and of The Literatures of Colonial America (with Ivy Schweitzer, 2001). Contributor to Writing Lives: American Biography and Autobiography edited by Hans Bak and Hans Krabbendam (1998) and to the journals The Southern Literary Journal, The Yearbook of English Studies, Studies in American Indian Literature. Essays: Lahontan.

Charnley, Joy. Lecturer in French at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Author of Pierre Bayle: Reader of Travel Literature (1998), and several articles on Pierre Bayle, travel literature and 17th-century French travellers. Essays: Chardin; Léry.

Clarke, Ben. D.Phil candidate, English Faculty, Exeter College, University of Oxford. Contributor to The Road from George Orwell: His Achievement and Legacy edited by Alberto Lázaro (2001). Essays: utopias/dystopias.

Colbert, Benjamin. Senior Lecturer in English, University of Wolverhampton. Author of Shelley's Eye: Travel Writing and Aesthetic Vision (forthcoming) and Volume Editor of British Satire 1785[-]1840 (forthcoming). Essays: Cox; Rhine.

Cole, Maryanne. Essays: Women Travelers, 1500[-]1800.

Collins, Richard. Associate Professor of English, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans. Contributor to John Fante: A Critical Gathering edited by David Fine and Stephen Cooper (1999), John Fante: A Literary Portrait (1999), The Trangressive Wilkie Collins edited by Don Richard Cox and Maria K. Bachman (2001), Songs of the Reconstructing South: Building Literary Louisiana 1865[-]1945 edited by Susan D. Green and Lisa Abney (forthcoming), Encyclopedia of Life Writing edited by Margaretta Jolly (2001), Encyclopedia of American Poetry: 20th Century edited by Eric Haralson (forthcoming). Co-Editor, with Thomas Bonner, of Xavier Review. Contributor to the journals Wilkie Collins Society Journal, MELUS, Studies in the Humanities. Essays: Hearn.

Conlan, J.P. Assistant Professor of English, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan. Author of Marvelous Passages: English Nautical Piety in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (unpublished 1999 dissertation). Contributor to several journals including the Ben Jonson Journal (discussing Shakespeare's unequivocal opposition to colonization in The Tempest), Pacific Coast Philology (outlining Milton's travesty of English colonial rhetoric), Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography (resolving the problem of the Harley Manuscript in the textual history of The Canterbury Tales), and The Journal of the Early Books Society (reviewing books on medieval manuscript culture). Essays: Atlantic Ocean: exploration across.

Constantine, David. Adviser. Fellow in German at the Queen's College, Oxford. Author of Early Greek Travellers and the Hellenic Ideal (1984), Hölderlin (1988), and Fields of Fire: A Life of Sir William Hamilton (2001), among others. Essays: Grand Tour.

Cooper, Nicola. Lecturer, Department of French, Bristol University. Contributor to France at War in the Twentieth Century edited by Debra Kelly and Valerie Holman (2000), and France in Indochina: Colonial Encounters (2001). Contributor to the journals French Cultural Studies (article on Colonial Urbanism in Indochina), Modern and Contemporary France (article on juvenile delinquency and urban violence in France), and Women's Studies International Forum (article on gender and colonialism). Essays: Indochina.

Cox, John D. Teaches American literature and southern American literature at Webb School of Knoxville, Tennessee. Essays: United States: South.

Cronin, Michael. Senior Lecturer, School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University. Author of Translating Ireland (1996), and Across the Lines: Travel, Language, Translation (2000). Contributor to Ordinary People Dancing: Essays on Kate O'Brien edited by Eibhear Walshe (1993), Tourism in Ireland: A Critical Analysis edited by Barbara O'Connor and M. Cronin M. (1993), Reisen im Diskurs edited by Anne Fuchs and Theo Harden (1995), Changing the Terms: Translating in the Postcolonial Era edited by Sherry Simon and Paul St-Pierre (2000), and Writing in the Irish Republic: Literature, Culture, Politics 1949[-]1999 edited by Ray Ryan (with Barbara O'Connor, 2000). Editor of Tourism in Ireland: A Critical Analysis (with Barbara O'Connor, 1993),of Nouvelles d'Irlande (with Louis Jolicoeur, 1997), and of Unity in Diversity: New Directions in Translation Studies (with others, 1998). Essays: Bouvier; Foreign Languages; Ireland.

Crook, Keith. Formerly principal lecturer at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, UK. Author of A Preface to Swift (1998) and editor of Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters during an excursion in Italy in the years 1802 and 1803 by Joseph Forsyth (2001), articles in Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature (forthcoming). Essays: Eustace; Forsyth.

Crosthwait, Ginny. Doctoral candidate, Department of English, Rice University, Houston, Texas. Teacher of English and American literature at the University of St Thomas in Houston, Texas. Dissertation is on the Metropolitan Police and the newspaper industry in 19th-century London. Has also written on the gothic novel, 19th-century poetry and music theory, and gender performativity in the prison system. Previously on the editorial staff of Studies in English Literature. Essays: Campbell.

Cruwys, Elizabeth. Senior Research Associate, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. Author of Explore Britain's Castles (with Beau Riffenburgh, 1995), British Seals (1996), and The Photographs of H.G. Ponting (with Beau Riffenburgh, 1998). Editor of Teeth and Anthropology (with R. A. Foley, 1986). Contributor to Past Worlds: The Times Atlas of Archaeology edited by Christopher Scarre (1988), Great Voyages of the World (1997), and The Lonely Planet Guide to the Arctic (2000); also contributor to the journals Polar Record, British Medical Journal, Journal of Dental Research, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Archives of Oral Biology, Journal of Palaeopathology, and Current Anthropology. Essays: Antarctica; Greenland; Rasmussen.

Dalal, Anita. Independent scholar based in London. Author of In search of home: the writings of Katherine Anne Porter, Martha Gelhorn, Elizabeth Bishop and Joan Didion in Latin America (unpublished thesis). Essays: Mexico.

Daprini, Pierre. Senior Lecturer in French, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Contributor to Revolution, Society and the Politics of Memory (1996), Europe: Retrospects and Prospects (1996), Modern Europe: Histories and Identities edited by Peter Monteath and Ric Zuckerman (1998), France and the French in the Second World War: French Culture Under the German Occupation (1999), Variété: Perspectives in French Literature edited by Marie Ramsland (1999), The Sphinx in the Tuilleries edited by Robert Aldrich and Martin Lyons (1999). Contributor to New Zealand Journal of French Studies, Australian Journal of French Studies, Literature and War, Perspectives on Modern Literature, Literature and Travel, Perspectives on Modern Literature. Essays: Charcot; Garnier; Loti; Montaigne.

Daraux, Jean-Pierre. Enseiguat Agrégé au department d'Anglais, University de Toulouse-Le-Miral. Editor and translator of James Erskine Murray, Vu éte dans les Pyrénées (1998), and contributor to Le Dictionaaire des Pyrénées (1999). Essays: Pyrenees.

Day, Matthew. Doctoral candidate, York University. Thesis on the works and reception of Richard Hakluyt's works. Essays: Baffin; Chancellor; Hakluyt.

Demata, Massimiliano. Lecturer in English, Mansfield College, University of Oxford. Editor of British Romanticism and the Edinburgh Review. Bicentennary Essays ((with Duncan Wu, forthcoming). Contributor to Notes and Queries (on Byron) and La Questione Romantica (on the Gothic novel). Essays: Howard; Murray (publisher); Society of Dilettanti.

Dennett, Laurie. Chairman, Confraternity of Saint James. Author of A Hug for the Apostle (1987), The Charterhouse Group: A History (1979), Slaughter and May: A Century in the City (1989), Slaughter and May: A Short History (1989), A Sense of Security: 150 Years of the Prudential (1998). Translator of The Pilgrim's Guide to the Camino de Santiago, by Elías Valińa Sampedro (1992). Essays: Santiago de Compostela.

Denslow, Neil. Independent writer and scholar based in Dorset. Contributor to The Encyclopedia of American Studies (2001), Encyclopedia of Radio edited by Christopher H.Sterling (forthcoming) and Encyclopedia of World Minorities (forthcoming). Essays: Cuba; Ecuador; Soviet Union.

der Parthog, Gwynneth. Author of Byzantine and Medieval Cyprus (1995). Essays: Cyprus.

Destot, Guillaume Marcel Henri. Lecturer, English Department, Jean Monnet University, St Etienne. Author of "T.E. Lawrence: Myth, History and Ideology" (unpublished master's thesis, 1998), and "The Intellectual Adventurer: T.E. Lawrence and George Orwell" (unpublished thesis, 2000). Essays: Lawrence, T.E.

Dinneen, Marcia. Visiting Lecturer, Department of English, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Author of "Travel as a Metaphor: Traveling Heroines in Novels by Jane Austen, George Eliot, and the Brontes" (unpublished dissertation, 1994), and contributor to British Travel Writers 1910[-]1939 (Dictionary of Literary Biography 195) edited by Barbara Brothers and Julia M. Gergits (1998), and British Travel Writers 1940[-]1997 (Dictionary of Literary Biography 204) edited by Barbara Brothers and Julia M. Gergits (1999). Contributed articles on Richard Wilbur to the journals Explicator (1991) and Bulletin of Bibliography (1980), and on John Marston's Antonio Plays to Bulletin of Bibliography (1981). Essays: Fodor; Heyerdahl; Muir.

Dinneen, Mark. Lecturer, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. Author of , Culture and Customs of Venezuela (2001), Listening to the People's Voice: Erudite and Popular Literature in North East Brazil (1996). Editor of Brazilian Woodcut Prints (2001). Contributor to Encyclopedia of Life Writing, edited by Margaretta Jolly (2001), Fiction of the Portuguese World, edited by C.M. Kelly (2000), Encyclopedia of Literary Translation, edited by O. Classe (2000), Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Carribbean Cultures, edited by M. Gonzalez and A.M. Lopez (2000), Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature, edited by Verity Smith (1997). Essays: Acosta; Brazil; Vespucci.

Distad, Merrill. Associate Director of Libraries, University of Alberta. Author of Guessing at Truth: The Life of Julius Charles Hare, 1795[-]1855. Contributor to Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714[-]1837: An Encyclopedia edited by Gerald Newman (1997), Periodicals of Queen Victoria's Empire: An Exploration edited by J. Don Vann and Rosemary VanArsdel (1996), Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia edited by Sally Mitchell (1988), The Reader's Encyclopedia of Canadian Writing (forthcoming), and The New Dictionary of National Biography (forthcoming). Editor of Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Praries (with E.B. Ingles, forthcoming), of Pierre Ourvrard: Master Bookbinder (with Jeannine Green, 2000). Also contributed articles to the journals History Today, Nautical Magazine, Victorian Periodicals Review. Essays: William Dalrymple; Graaff; Motorcars; Scientific Travelling; Volcanology.

Dixon, John. MSc student, Department of Information Science, City University, London. Contributed to Encyclopaedia of the Novel edited by Paul Schellinger (1998), International Encyclopedia of Translation Studies edited by Harald Kittel (2001); also to the journals Translation Review, Exchanges, Turjuman, Studies in Travel Writing, P.E.N. International. Essays: Lane.

Doiron, Normand. Associate Professor, Department of French Language and Literature, McGill University, Montreal. Author of L'Art de voyager: Le déplacement ŕ l'époque classique (1995). Editor of Voyages en Nouvelle-France (1986), Diéreville, Relation du voyage due Port-Royal de l'Acadie. Suivie de Poésies diverses (1997). Contributor to La découverte de nouveau mondes (1993), Un classicisme ou des classicismes? (1995), La France-Amérique, XVIe-XVIIe siécles edited by Frank Lestringant (1998) and the journals L'Esprit créateur, Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature, Revue XVIIe siécle. Essays (with Gillian Lane-Mercier): Cartier; Champlain; Lescarbot, travel essays.

Drijvers, Jan Willem. Lecturer, Department of History, University of Groningen. Author of Helena Augusta: The Mother of Constantine the Great and the Legend of Her Finding of the True Cross (1992), The Finding of the True Cross: The Judas Kyriakos Legend in Syriac (with others, 1997), and Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXII, XXIII and XXIV (with others, 1995, 1998, 2001), and Achaemenid History VII: Through Travellers' Eyes: European Travellers on the Iranian Monuments edited by J.W. Drijvers and Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg (1991). Editor of The Late Roman World and Its Historian: Interpreting Ammanius Marcellinus (with David Hunt, 1999). Also contributed articles to the (selected) following journals, Historia, Mnemosyne, Studia Troica, Vigiliae Christianae, and The Classical Quarterly. Essays: Bruijn.

Duplancic de Elgueta, Elena. Master of Arts in Literary Criticism. Part-time lecturer. Department of Modern Literatures, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina. Author of Presencia de la literature de viajes en algunas obras de Shakespeare (2000). Co-Editor of Boletín de Literatura Comparada (1991-1993). Contributor to Comparatística: Estudios de Literatura y Teatro, edited by A. Dubatti (1992). Contributor to several journals including Revista de Lenguas Extranjeras, Nueva Revista de Lenguas Extranjeras, Studia Croatica, Literatura: Espacio de contactos culturales. Essays:

Durie, Alastair. Senior Lecturer, Department of Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow. Author of Scotland for the Holidays: Tourism in Scotland 1780[-]1939 (2001), Water is Best: The Hydropathic Movement in Scotland, 1840[-]1940 (2002), The Scottish Linen Industry in the Eighteenth Century (1979), Vanishing Edinburgh: In the Steps of George Washington Wilson (1989), "Personality and Policy: The First Managers of the British Linen Company" in Enterprise and Management edited by Derek Aldcroft and Anthony Slaven (1995), "The Development of Scotland as a Tourist Destination" in Tourism: The State of the Art, edited by A.V. Seaton (1994). Contributor to The Oxford Companion to British Railway History, edited by Gordon Biddle and Jack Simmons (1997). Author of articles in journals including International Journal of Sports History, International Journal of Maritime History, Business and Economic History. Essays: Scotland;Spas and Health Resorts; Steamships.

Eaton, Joseph. Lecturer, Department of History, St Gregory's University, Shawnee, Oklahmoma, Essays: Beijing; Buckingham Silk; Korea.

Ebron, Grace. Independent scholar based in Italy. Contributor to Encyclopedia of Life Writing edited by Margaretta Jolly (2001), Encyclopedia of African History edited by Kevin Shillington (forthcoming), Immigration Handbook, Postcolonial Encyclopedia. Research interests include postcolonial literature, immigrant communities, feminist theory. Essays: Philippines.

Edgar, Katharine. Doctoral candidate, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. Essays: Levant.

Ehrhardt, John C. Assistant Professor of History, Lambuth University, Jackson, Tennessee. Current interests include Russian America. Essays: Bering; Russian-American Company; Vancouver.

Eisner, Robert. Adviser. Professor of Classics and Humanities, San Diego University, California. Author of The Road to Daulis: Psychoanalysis, Psychology, and Classical Mythology (1987) and Travelers to an Antique Land: The History and Literature of Travel to Greece (1991). He is currently working on a book about the Grand Tour and a novel about Telemachus. Essays: Greece: post 1821; Lear.

Eliasson, Pär. Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Historical Studies, Umeĺ University, Sweden. Author of Platsens Blick: vetenskapsakademien och den naturalhistoriska resan 1790[-]1840 [ The Place's Glance: The Royal Academy of Science and Scientific Travel, 1790[-]1840], unpublished dissertation (1999) and Contributed to Mundializacion de la ciencia y cultura nacional edited by A. Lafuente, A Elena and M. L. Ortega (with Sverker Sörlin, 1993), Drei Kronen und ein Greif: Deutschland in Schweden-Schweden in Deutschland, edited by Gunnar Müller-Waldeck (1998), and to Science Studies. Essays: Humboldt, Alexander; Scandinavia.

Elsner, Jas. Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art and Archaeology, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. Author of Art and the Roman Viewer: The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity (1995), Pilgrimage Past and Present in the World Religions (with Simon Coleman, 1995), Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph: The Art of the Roman Empire AD 100[-]450 (1998). Editor of Reflections of Nero (with Jamie Masters, 1994), The Cultures of Collecting (with Roger Cardinal, 1994), Art and Text in Roman Culture (1996), Voyages and Visions: Towards a Cultural History of Travel (with Joan Pau Rubiés ,1999), Pausanias: Travel and Memory in Roman Greece (with others, 2001). Contributor to various edited books and journals. Essays: Apollonius; Pausanias.

En-nehas, Jamal. Assistant Professor of English, Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman, Professor of English, Moulay Ismail University, Morocco (1987[-]2001). Author of The Writing Guide for Students of English in Moroccan Universities (1997). Co-translator of Strategy of Islamic Cultural Action in the West. Contributor to World Literature Today. Also contributed articles and reviews to Chimo, Interculturel, The International Fiction Review, Journal of the Oriental Institute, and Maknasat. Essays: Stark; Van der Post.

Featherstone , Kerry. Post-doctoral assistant, English and Media Studies Department, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham. Essays: Chatwin.

Finkelstein, David. Head of Department, Media and Communication, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh. Author of The House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era (2002), An Index to Blackwood's Magazine 1901[-]1980 (1995), and Philip Meadows Taylor (1808[-]1876: A Bibliography (1990). Editor of Thomas Nelson and Sons (with Heather Holmes, 2001), The Book History Reader (with Alistair McCleery, 2001), Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities (with others, 2000), Negotiating India in the Nineteenth-Century Media (with Douglas M. Peers, 2000). Contributor to latter two books above and to Grub Street and the Ivory Tower: Literary Journalism and Literary Scholarship from Fielding to the Internet edited by Jeremy Treglown and Bridget Bennet (1998). Also contributed articles to the following journals, Interfaces: Image Texte Language, Text, Victorian Periodicals Review, The Gaskell Society Journal, and Publishing History. Essays: Livingstone.

Fleming, John V. Fairchild Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University. Author of The Roman de la Rose: A Study in Allegory and Iconography (1969), An Introduction to the Franciscan Literature of the Middle Ages (1977), From Bonaventure to Bellini: an Essay in Franciscan Exegesis (1982), Reason and the Lover (1984), Classical Imitation and Interpretation in Chaucer's Troilus (1990), 1492: An Ongoing Voyage, with Ida Altman and John Hébert (1992) and about a hundred periodical essays and book chapters on medieval European literature, art, and religion; the classical tradition in the Middle Ages; the Franciscan Order; Christopher Columbus, among other subjects. Essays: Columbus; Cyriaco d'Ancona; Da Gama; Oviedo y Valdes; Teixeria.

Flood, John L. Professor of German in the University of London, and Deputy Director, University of London School of Advanced Study, Institute of Germanic Studies. Author of Johannes Sinapius, 1505[-]1560: Hellenist and Physician in Germany and Italy (with David J. Shaw, 1997). Editor of Die Historie von Herzog Ernst (1992), Das unsichtbare Band der Sprache (with P.B. Salmon et al., 1993), The German Book 1450[-]1750 (with William A. Kelly, 1995). Contributor to Reisen und Welterfahrung in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters, edited by Dietrich Huschenbett et al. (1991), German Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, 1280[-]1580 (Dictionary of Literary Biography 179) edited by James Hardin and Max Reinhart (1997) and many other contributions in books and journals including German Life and Letters, Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, The Library, The Modern Language Review, Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum, Zeitschrift fürtdeutsche Philologie on medieval and Renaissance literature in Germany, book history, and history of medicine, incunabula. Essays: Busbecq; Platter.

Forsdick, Charles. Lecturer, Department of French, University of Glasgow. Author of Autoscopy and Self-Reflection: fiction and pathology from Musset to Segalen (1995), Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity: Journeys between Cultures (2000). Editor of and contributor to Reading Diversity (with Susan Marson, 2000). Contributor to Post-Theory: New Directions in Criticism, edited by Martin McQuillan (1999), Les Figures du stéréotype, edited by Christian Garaud (2000), Lectures de Segalen. Stčles et Equipée, edited by Marie Dollé (1999), Thresholds of Otherness / Autrement męmes, edited by David Murphy and Aedín Ni Loingsigh (2000), European Travel Writing in the 1930s edited by Charles Burdett and Derek Duncan (2000). Also contributed articles to the journals French Cultural Studies, New Comparison, Romance Studies, Sites, ASCALF Bulletin, international Journal of Francophone Studies, Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies. Essays: France: 19th and 20th centuries: Niagara Falls.

Foster, Charles. Barrister, writer and traveller. Author of numerous books and articles on law, travel, medicine and the politics of the Middle East. Publications include a chapter in Desert Travellers: from Herodotus to T. E. Lawrence edited by Janet Starkey and Okasha El Daly (2000) and articles on the West Bank, Syria, Jordan, Bosnia, the Mossad, the veneration of icons, wolf hunting in Kazakstan, and the careers of R.D. Laing and Bede Griffiths in a number of journals including The Contemporary Review, Shooting Gazette, and Esquire magazine. Essays: Cairo; Central Asia: western visitors; Damascus; Fiennes, Ranulph; Gobi Desert; Greece, Ancient Hellenic World; Maclean, Fitzroy; Mekong River.

Franey, Laura E. Assistant Professor of English, Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi. Contributor to British and Irish Literature and Its Times edited by Joyce Moss and Lorraine Valestuk (2001), African Literature and Its Times, edited by Joyce Moss and Lorraine Valesetuk (2000), and the journal Victorian Literature and Culture (2001). Essays: Grant; Southern Africa.

Frankopan, Nicholas.Doctoral candidate, Pontificia Universita Gregoriana, Rome. Essays: Polo, Marco.

Frankopan, Peter. Senior Research Fellow-Elect, Worcester College, Oxford University. Editor of Studies in Croatian history (forthcoming).Contributor to Travellers in the Levant, edited by Sarah Searight and Malcolm Wagstaff (2001). Author of articles Byzantinoslavica, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Byzantion and specialist in 10th and 11th century Byzantium. Essays: Byzantium.

Fraser, Robert H. Senior Research Fellow, Department of Literature at the Open University. Essays: New York; Park; Sahel; Timbuktu.

Frenkel, Yehoshua. Lecturer at the Department of the Land of Israel Studies and the Department of the History of the Middle East, University of Haifa. Contributor to Travellers in the Levant edited by Sarah Searight and Malcolm Wagstaff (2001), Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, War and Society in the Eastern Mediterranean, 7[-]15th centuries, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras edited by Urbain Vermeulen and Jo Van Steenbergen (2001). Essays: al-Idrisi; Ibn Jubair; Jerusalem; pilgrimage, Islamic, other than Hajj.

Fresonke, Kris. Assistant Professor, English Department, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY. Author of West of Emerson: The Design of Manifest Destiny (2001) and numerous journal articles. Essays: Lewis.

Garay, René. Adviser. Associate Professor of Portuguese and Spanish, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, City University of New York. Author of Gil Vicente and the Development of the Comedia (1988), The Play of Rubena by Gil Vicente (1993). Contributor to Dictionary of Brazilian Literature edited by Irwin Stein (1988), Masterplots II edited by Frank Magill (American Fiction Series 1986), The Global Impact of the Portuguese Language edited by Asela Laguna (2001), Spanish and Portuguese Literature and Its Times. Also articles in the journals Faces de Eva. Estudos sobre a Mulher, La Pluma del Ganso (with Pedro Fonseca) in Gragoatá, Letras, and Celestinesca.Editorial Board member of Signótica. Essays: Camoens.

Garrett, Greg. Adviser. Associate Professor of English, Baylor University, Waco, Texas. Author of Free Bird (forthcoming). Contributor to Journal of African Travel-Writing (Victorian exploration), Journal of Popular Culture (American fiction), Journal of American Culture (American film), Journal of Popular Film and Television (American film), Literature/Film Review (film adaptation). Essays: Burton; Speke.

Garrick, Justin. Doctoral candidate, Faculty of English, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. Editor of Sydneian Poets 1819 to 1919 (1999). Essays: Indian Ocean islands; Indian Ocean, post-exploration.

Gergits, Julia M. Professor, Department of English, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio. Author of Technical Writing Study Guide, with James J. Schramer, 2001). Edited with Barbara Brothers, British Travel Writers 1940[-]1997 (Dictionary of Literary Biography 204,1999), British Travel Writers 1910[-]1939 (Dictionary of Literary Biography 195,1998), British Travel Writers 1876[-]1909 (Dictionary of Literary Biography 174, 1997), British Travel Writers, 1837[-]1875 (Dictionary of Literary Biography 166,1996). Also contributor (with Barbara Brothers) to vol. 166 and (with James J. Schramer) to vol. 204. Author of article in Journal of Advanced Composition. Previously co-editor for the College English Association with Bege K. Bowers and edited the CEA Forum. Essays: Letters; Publishing; Stagecoach and Horse-Drawn vehicles.

Giarelli, Andrew L. Assistant Professor of English, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon. Author of The Temporal Structure of Cheyenne Narrative (1984). Contributor to Fodor's Guide to the National Parks of the West (1999), and World Press Review. Also founding editor of Edging West. Essays: Hemingway.

Gillen, Shawn. Associate Professor of English, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin. Editor of Highbeams, online literary journal (www.beloit.edu/~highbe).Articles and reveiws have appeared in Liberal Education (on future of print culture), Henry James Review (essay-review), and North Atlantic Review (fiction). Essays: Wharton.

Goldschmidt Jr., Arthur. Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Author of A Concise History of the Middle East (1979, 7th edition 2001), Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt (1999), Historical Dictionary of Egypt (1994), Modern Egypt: The Formation of a Nation-State (1988), Articles on the Middle East, 1947[-]1971 (with Peter M. Rossi and Wayne E. White 1980). Editor of The Memoirs and Diaries of Muhammad Farid, an Egyptian Nationalist Leader, 1868[-]1919 (1992). Contributor to Political and Social Change in Modern Egypt edited by P.M. Holt (1968), The Middle East: Its Governments and Politics edited by Abid A. Al-Marayati et al. (1972), The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature edited by Mary Beth Norton and Pamela Gerardi (1995), 72 entries in Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East edited by Reeva S. Simon et al. (1996), Understanding the Contemporary Middle East edited by Deborah J. Gerner (2000). Also contributed books reviews to various periodicals and journal articles to Asian and African Studies, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt. Essays: Blunt.

Goldstein, Andrew. Senior Minister (Rabbi), Northwood and Pinner Liberal Synagogue.Author of Exploring the Bible I & II (1987[-]1988), My Jewish Home (2000). Editor of High Holyday Prayerbook of Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues (2001). Essays: Moses and Judith Montefiore.

Gorman, Anita. Associate Professor, Department of English, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. Author of The Body in Illness and Health: Themes and Images in Jane Austen (1993). Contributor to American Hard-Boiled Crime Writers (Dictionary of Literary Biography 226) edited by George Parker Anderson and Julie B. Anderson (2000), to British Travel Writers 1940[-]1997 (Dictionary of Literary Biography 204) edited by Barbara Brothers and Julia M. Gergits (with Hariclea Zengos,1999), An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers, edited by Paul and June Schlueter (1998), American Travel Writers 1776[-]1850 (Dictionary of Literary Biography 183) edited by James J. Schramer and Donald Ross (1997), British Travel Writers 1837[-]1875 (Dictionary of Literary Biography 166) edited Barbara Brothers and Julia M. Gergits (1996). Contributor to the journals Folly, Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams and the Genres of Myth and Fantasy Studies , Eric/Chess, the Educational Resources Information Center Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Teacher Education. Essays: Leigh Fermor; Roberts.

Gosman, Martin. Adviser. Professor of Romance Languages and Cultures, University of Groningen. Editor of Evr'n Theatre, 1470[-]1600: Traditions and Transformations (with Rina Walthaus, 1996), Exemplum et similtudo: Alexander the Great and Other Heroes as Points of Reference in Medieval Literature (with W.J. Aerts, 1988). He is director of the programme "Medieval to Early Modern Culture", in collaboration with Westfälishce Wilhelsms-Universität of Münster. Essays: Carpino; Rubruck; Sahagún.

Gothóni, René. Adviser. Professor, Department of Comparative Religion, University of Helsinki. Author of Modes of Life of Theravada Monks: A Case Study of Buddhist Monasticism in Sri Lanka (1982), Paradise within Reach: Monasticism and Pilgrimage on Athos (1993), Tales and Truth: Pilgrimage on Mount Athos Past and Present (1994), How to Survive in Academia: Words of Comfort (1996), Attitudes and Interpretations in Comparative Religion (2000). Editor of Mythology and Cosmic Order (with Juha Pentikäinen, 1987), editor-in-chief of Byzantium and the North and Acta Byzantina Fennica. Contributed to Transition Rites: Cosmic, Social and Individual Order edited by Ugo Bianchi (1986), Religious Rites edited by Tore Ahlbäck (1993), The Notion of Religion in Comparative Research edited by Ugo Bianchi (1990), Religio o Psicoterapiai? edited by Mario Aletti (1994), Sundéns Role Theory: An Impetus to Contemporary Psychology of Religion edited by Nils G.Holm and J.A. Belzen (1995). Also contributed to the journals Archiv für Religionpsychologie, Byzantium and the North, Studi sull'Oriente Cristiano, and Temenos. Essays: Barskii; Buondelmonti; Curzon, Robert; Egeria; Westermarck.

Gough, Barry. Professor of History, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario. Biographer of Sir Alexander Mackenzie, he is author of First Across the Continent: Sir Alexander Mackenzie (1997), Fighting Sail on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay: The War of 1812 and its Aftermath (forthcoming), The Royal Navy and the Northwest Coast of North America, 1810[-]1914 (1971), and other books on naval history and maritime endeavour. Essays: Mackenzie.

Greenwood, Emily. Research student, Faculty of Classics, Newnham College, University of Cambridge. Contributor to A Companion to Herodotus (with Paul Cartledge, 2001). Essays: odyssey.

Grenier, Katherine Haldane. Associate Professor, History Department, The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina. Editor of That Gentle Strength: Historical Perspectives on Women in Christianity (with Lynda L. Coon and Elisabeth W. Sommer, 1990). Contributor to Nineteenth Century Studies, Victorians Institute Journal on tourism in 19th-century Scotland. Essays: Cook's Tours.

Grushow, Ira. Alumni Professor of English Belles Lettres and Literature Emeritus, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Author of The Imaginary Reminiscences of Sir Max Beerbohm (1984). Contributor to British Travel Writers 1876[-]1909 (Dictionary of Literary Biography 174), edited by Barbara Brothers and Julia M.Gergits (1997), Twentieth-Century Britain: An Encyclopedia, edited by F.M. Leventhal (1995), encyclopedia articles in The 1890s: An Encyclopedia of British Literature, Art, and Culture, edited by G.A. Cevasco (1993). Also contributed to Papers on Language and Literature, Notes and Queries, Southern Humanities Review. Essays: Epistolary Travel Fiction; Guidebooks.

Guentner, Wendelin Ann. Professor, The University of Iowa, Iowa City. Author of Stendhal et son lecteur: Essai sur les 'Promenades dans Rome' (1989), and Esquisses littéraires. Rhétorique du spontané et récit de voyage au XIXe siecle (1997). Contributor to Du romantisme au surréalisme. Statut et enjeux du récit poétique edited by Alain Montandon (1998) and Women Seeking Expression: 1789[-]1914 edited by Rosemary Lloyd and Brian Nelson (2000). Also contributed articles to the journals Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Revue d'Histoire Litteraire de la France, Romantisme, Romantic Review, Romanische Forchungen, Australian Journal of French Studies, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, Stendhal Club, Rivista di Letterature moderne e comparate, French Literary Studies, Contemporary French Civilization, Neophilologus, Romanistische Zeitschrift für Literaturgeschichte, Art Journal and Stanford French Review, among others. Essays: Stendhal.

Gurría Quintana, Ángel. Historian, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge (1997[-]2001). Has recently completed a cultural history of British accounts of travel to Mexico. Contributor to the journal Studies in Travel Writing (2002). Essays: Caribbean: to 1700; South America: The North.

Hadfield, Andrew. Adviser. Professor of English, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Author of The English Renaissance, 1500[-]1620 (2001), Literature, Travel and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance, 1545[-]1625 (1998), Edmund Spenser's Irish Experience: Wilde Fruit and Salvage Soyl (1997), Literature, Politics and National Identity: Reformation to Renaissance (1994). Editor of Amazons, Savages and Machievals: An anthology of travel and colonial writing, 1550[-]1630 (2001), The Cambridge Companion to Spenser (with Brendan Bradshaw and Willy Maley, 2001), Literature and Censorship in Renaissance England (2001), Representing Ireland: Literature and the Origins of Conflict, 1534[-]1660 (with John McVeagh, 1993), Strangers to that Land: British Perceptions of Ireland from the Reformation to the Famine (1994). Contributor to The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print edited by Neil Rhodes and Jonathan Sawday (2000), British Identity and British Consciousness, 1533[-]1707 edited by Brendan Bradshaw and Peter Roberts (1998), Shakespeare and Ireland: History, Politics, Culture edited by Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray (1997), Travel and Drama in Shakespeare's Time edited by Michele Willems and Jean-Pierre Maquerlot (1996), A Milton Companion edited by Thomas N. Corns (2001). Essays: Gilbert; Lithgow; Moryson; New World Chronicles.

Hadžiselimovic, Omer. Adjunct in English and Assistant to the Chancellor, Indiana University East, Richmond, Indiana. Author of Messages and Responses: the American Social Novel in the Criticism in Serbo-Croatian, 1918 to 1941 (1980). Editor of At the Gates of the East: British Travel Writers on Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries (1989; American edition, 2001). Contributor to Black Lambs & Grey Falcons: Women Travellers in the Balkans, edited by John B. Allcock and Antonia Young (1991; second edition 2000). Also contributed journal articles to Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik (reception of American literature in Yugoslavia), Enciklopedija Jugoslavije ( British-Bosnian/Herzegovinian and British-Montenegrin Cultural Relations), Knjizevna smotra (on Kurt Vonnegut; British travel writing about Bosnia), Izraz (on James Dickey; John Updike), Encyclopaedia moderna (the idea of mission in American history), East European Quaterly (American travel writing about Bosnia). Essays: Balkans.

Hagglund, Elizabeth. Senior Research Fellow, Caird Library, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Editor of Sarah Murray: A Companion and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland (1799) (2000). Contributor (with Jonathan Laidlaw) to Gender and Utopian Thought in the Eighteenth Century edited by Brenda Tooley and Nicole Pohl (2000). Also contributed articles to Studies in Travel Writing and Early Modern Literary Studies. Essays: Fiennes, Celia; Marsden.

Häggman, Bertil. Independent researcher based in Sweden. Author (with Lars Gjertveit) of Swedish Generals and Colonels in Gray 1861[-]1865 (1996), Ukrainska öden I Sverige pĺ Karl XII [Ukrainian Fates in Sweden in the Era of Charles XII (1994), Political Options: the Defence of Freedom (1988), Political Warfare: The Missing Link in the Defence of the West (1986), Nykonservatismen I USA [New Conservatism in the US] (with Claes G. Ryn, 1971). Contributor to The Reader's Guide to Military History edited by Charles Messenger (2001), Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery edited by Junius P. Rodriguez (1997), Karolinska Förbundetns Ĺrsbok 1995 (1997), Nationalencyklopedin [Swedish National Encyclopedia], Soviet Active measures, People-to-People Contacts, and the Helsinki Process (1986). Also contributed articles to the journals Traffico, Polar Libraries Bulletin, Royal Swedish Academy of Military Science on Geopolitics andGeostrategy and Afärsekonomi Management. Essays: balloons and airships; Hedin; Nordenskiöld; Northeast Passage.

Haider, Peter W. . Professor at the Institute of Ancient History and Ancient Near East. Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck, Austria. Author of Einblicke in die Religion Altägyptens (2002), Persönlichkeiten der Römerzeit im heutigen Nord-. Ost- und Südtirol sowie im Trentino (2002), Griechenland - Nordafrika - Ihre Beziehungen zwischen 1500 and 600 v. Chr. (1998), Römische Inschriften aus dem Alt-Tiroler Raum. Eine Auswahl (1996). Editor of Althistorische Studien im Spannungfeld zwischen Universal- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Festschrift für Franz Hampl zum 90. Geburtstag (2001), Religionsgeschichte Syriens - Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart (1996), Kreta. Artemis-Cicerone Kunst- und Reiseführer (1988). Contributor to Formen des Kontakts zwischen Orient und Okzident im Alterum, edited by M. Schuol and U. Hartmann and A. Luther (2002), Dier bezichungen zu Osttgriechenland, Ägypten und Zypern in archaischer Zeit, edited by U. Höckmann and D. Kreikebom (2001), Potnia: Deities and Religions in the Aegean Bronze Age. Aegeum 23, edited by R. Laffineur and R. Hägg (2000), Österreichische Forschungen zur ägäischen Bronzezeit 1998, edited by F. Blakolmer (2000). Contributor of several articles in the journals Ägypten und Levante, Antike Welt, Beiträge, Kleine Schriften, Münstersche Beiträge zur antiken Handelsgeschichte. Essays: Roman Empire

Halén, Harry. Secretary (Amanuensis), Institute for Asian and African Studies, University of Helsinki. Author (with Bent Larbćk Pedersen) of C. G. Mannerheim's Chinese Pantheon. Materials for an Iconography of Chinese Folk Religion (1993), Mirrors of the Void: Buddhist Art in the National Museum of Finland (1987), Biliktu Bakshi: The Knowledgeable Teacher. G. J. Ramstedt's Career as a Scholar (1998), Handbook of Oriental Collections in Finland: Manuscripts, xylographs,inscriptions, and Russian minority literature (1978). Also compiler of bibliographies of Pentti Aalto and Jussi Aro and of Mongolian studies in Finland, 1946[-]95. Editor of Nordmongolische Volksdichtung, gesammelt von G. J. Ramstedt, vols 1[-]2 (1973[-]74), Westlamutische Materialien, aufgezeichnet von Arvo Sotavalta (1978), Memoria saecularis Sakari Pälsi. Aufzeichnungen von einer Forschungsreise nach der nördlichen Mongolei im Jahre 1909 nebst Bibliographien (1982), Cumucica & Nogaica: G. J. Ramstedt's Kumyk /Nogay materials (with Emine Gürsoy-Naskali 1991). Contributed articles to several books and to the following journals Studia Orientalia, Journal de la Société Finno-Ougrienne , International Journal of Central Asian Studies, Bulletin of the International Association for Mongol Studies, An International Annual of Mongol Studies. Essays: Mannerheim.

Hanway, Nancy. Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Modern Languages, Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, Minnesota. Contributor to Chasqui: una revista de literatura latinoamerica (forthcoming), The Florida Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Washington Square. Essays: Las Casas.

Harper, Lila Marz. Instructor, English Department, Central Washington University, Ellensburg. Author of Solitary Travelers: Nineteenth-Century Women's Travel Narratives and the Scientific Vocation (forthcoming). Contributor to Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers, edited by Abigail Bloom (forthcoming), British Travel Writers 1837[-]1875 (Dictionary of Literary Biography 166) edited by Barbara Brothers and Julia M. Gergits (1996), New Dictionary of National Biography (forthcoming). Also contributed articles to George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies and Extrapolation. Essays: Kingsley.

Harrington, Charles. Associate Professor, Department of English, Indiana University, South Bend. Author of many articles on travel, most recently for Explorer. Essays: poetry.

Harvey, Leonard Patrick. Adviser. Professor Emeritus, University of London, Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Fellow of King's College London. Author of Islamic Spain (1990). Editor (with others) of Cassell's Compact Spanish-English English-Spanish Dictionary (1969), of Hispano-Arabic Strophic Poetry (1974). Contributor to Oral Literature edited by Joseph J.Duggan (1975), The Legacy of Muslim Spain edited by Salma K. Jayyusi (1992), La expulsión de los Moriscos edited by José Miranda (1998). Also contributed articles to the journals Al-Andalus, Al-Qantara, Al-Masaq, Sharq al-Andalus, Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, among others. Essays: al-Ghazal; al-Hajari.

Havely, Cicely Palser. Senior Lecturer in Literature and sub-dean in the Faculty of Arts at the Open University. Editor of This Grand Beyond: The Travels of Isabella Bird Bishop (1984). Essays: Bird; Eden; Heber.

Haycock, David Boyd. Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford. Currently completing a new intellectual biography of the antiquary William Stukeley (1687[-]1765). Essays: Ray.

Hayes, Kevin J. , Professor of English at the University of Central Oklahoma. Author of Captain John Smith: A Reference Guide (1991), and editor of Edward Kimber's Itinerant Observations in America (1998). Contributor to the jounrals Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society and the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Essays: Baedeker.

Hayward, Jennifer. Associate Professor of English, College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio. Author of Consuming Pleasures: Active Audiences and Serial Fictions from Dickens to Soap Opera (1997). Contributed journal articles to Cultural Critique and Black American Literature Forum. Currently working on the literary strategies of women and travel and imperial masculinities. Essays: Graham; women travellers, 19th century.

Hazledine, Anthony. Is a dealer in antique oriental carpets and traveller in the East. Essays: Doughty.

Heaps, Denise Adele. Previously at the University of Toronto. Contributed journal articles to Essays on Canadian Writing, Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, and Studies in Canadian Literature. Essays: Canada.

Heenan, Patrick. Independent scholar, editor and writer based in the United Kingdom. Co-editor with Monique Lamontagne of the series Regional Handbooks of Economic Development (1998-2003). Essays: Brooke; Japan post-1853; Mabillon; Mongolia; Thailand.

Helfers, James. Dean, Professor of English Literature, College of Liberal Arts, Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, Arizona. Author of articles in the Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association and Studies in Philology. Essays: Frobisher; maps and charts.

Helmers, Marguerite. Associate Professor of English,University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. Author of Writing Students: Composition Testimonials and Representations of Students (1994). Editor of Intertexts: Reading Pedagogy in the Writing Classroom (2002), WPA: Writing Program Administration (1998[-]2001). Contributor to British Travel Writers 1910[-]1939 (Dictionary of Literary Biography 195) (1998), Kitchen Cooks, Plate Twirlers, and Troubadours: Writing Program Administrators Tell Their Stories, edited by Diana George (1999), Foregrounding Ethical Awareness in Composition and English Studies, edited by Sheryl Fontaine and Susan Hunter (1998), and to the journals Bad Subjects, Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Arts and Sciences, College English, JAC: the Journal of Advanced Composition, Enculturation, ADE Bulletin, Writing Instructor, Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments. Essays: Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River; Turner.

Hemming, John. CMG Chairman, Hemming Group Ltd. Author of The Conquest of the Incas (revised edition 1995), Red Gold: The Conquest of the Brazilian Indians (revised edition 1995), The Search for El Dorado (1978, 2001), Monuments of the Incas (1981), Amazon Frontier: The Defeat of the Brazilian Indians (revised edition 1996). Editor of Change in the Amazon Basin (1985), The Rainforest Edge (1994), Maracá, Rainforest Island (with James Ratter, 1993) Roraima, Brazil's Northernmost Frontier (1993), The Golden Age of Discovery (1998), and Die If You Must: Brazilian Indians in the Twentieth Century (forthcoming). Director, Royal Geographical Society, 1975[-]1996. Chairman of the Anglo-Peruvian Society. Essays: Peru.

Henn, David. Head of Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies, University College London. Author of The Early Pardo Bazán: Theme and Narrative Technique in the Novels of 1879[-]89 (1988), C.J. Cela: 'La colmena' (1974; reprinted, 1997). Contributor to A Lifetime's Reading: Hispanic Essays for Patrick Gallagher edited by Don W. Cruickshank (1999), A Further Range: Studies in Modern Spanish Literature from Galdós to Unamuno edited by Anthony H. Clarke (1999). Also contributed journal articles to Forum for Modern Language Studies, Revue de Littérature Comparée, Modern Language Review, and Hispanic Research Journal. Essays: Cela.

Hepper, F. Nigel. Formerly Research Botanist, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London. Author of Pharaoh's Flowers: Botanic Treasures of Tutankhamun (1990), Illustrated Encyclopedia of Bible Plants (1992), Luigi Balugani's Drawings of African Plants (with others, 1997), The Plants of Pehr Forsskĺl's "Flora Aegytiaco-Arabica" (with I. Friis, 1994), Flora of West Africa (revised edition, 1963[-]72). Contributor to the journals Kew Bulletin, Geographical Magazine, Eretz: Geographical Magazine of Israel, Nigerian Field, Bothalia. Essays: Plant Hunting: Africa.

Hewitt, (Brian) George. Professor of Caucasian Languages, Near and Middle East Department, School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. Author (with Zaira Khiba) of Lingua Descriptive Studies 2: Abhkas (1979), The Typology of Subordination in Georgian and Abkhas (1987), Georgian: A Learner's Grammar (1995); Georgian: A Structural-Reference Grammar (1995), An Abkhaz Newspaper Reader (With Supplements) (with Zaira Khiba, 1998). Editor of Svan-English Dictionary (compiled by Letas Palmaitis and Chato Gudjedjiani 1985), The Indigenous Languages of the Caucausus 2: North West Caucausus (1989); Caucasian Perspectives (1992), Subject, Voice and Ergativity: Selected Essays (with David C. Bennett and Theodora Bynon, 1995), The Abkhazians: A Handbook (1998). Contributor to Language Planning in the Soviet Union, edited by Michael Kirkwood (1989), Peoples of the Caucausus: the Times Guide to the Peoples of Europe, edited by Félipe Fernandez-Armesto (1994), Post-War Developments in the Georgian-Abhkazian Dispute, edited by Ole Hiris and Sefa Martin Krykel (1998), Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe, edited by Glanville Price (1998), Studies in Caucausian Linguistics, edited by Helma Van Den Berg (1999), and the journals Lingua, Revue des Etudes Georgiennes et Caucasiennes, Annual of Ibero-Caucasian Linguistics, Transactions of the Philological Society, Central Asian Survey. Essays: Caucasus: Western visitors.

Hickey, Kevin M. Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury. Contributor to Migrating Words and Worlds: Pan-Africanism Updated, edited by E. Anthony Hurley, Renée Larrier, and Joseph McLaren (1999), Twentieth Century American Cultural Theorists (Dictionary of Literary Biography) edited by Paul Hansom (2001), Encyclopedia of Life Writing, edited by Margaretta Jolly (2001), Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, edited by Ed. John C. Hawley (2001), Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (forthcoming), and to journals Phoebe: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Theory and Aesthetics, and a dozen articles on six-year bicycle trip through 52 countries of Europe and Africa (1978[-]84) in (among others) Cyclist, Bicycle Guide, Bicycling, and Schweizer Jugend. Essays: Central Africa.

Higginson, Ian N. Research Fellow, Centre for History and Cultural Studies of Science, The University of Kent at Canterbury, Leverhulme Special Research Fellow, visiting Research Fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Contributor to Making Space for Science: Territorial Themes in the Shaping of Knowledge edited by Crosbie Smith and Jon Agar (1998) and the journals British Journal for the History of Science, the Call of the Wild, Polar Record, and Arctic. Essays: Alaska; Yukon River.

Holden, Philip Joseph. Assistant Professor, University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore. Author of Modern Subjects/Colonial Texts: Hugh Clifford and the Discipline of English Literature in the Straits Settlements and Malaya, 1895[-]1907 (2000), Orienting Masculinity, Orienting Nation: W. Somerset Maugham's Exotic Fiction (1996). Contributor to Reading Culture: Textual Practices in Singapore, edited by Anneliese Kramer-Dahl and Phyllis G. L. Chew (1999), Pacific Encounters: the Production of Self and Other, edited by Eva-Marie Kröller et al. (1998) and the journals Studies in Short Fiction, Textual Studies in Canada, English Studies in Canada, SPAN, Literature and History, ARIEL, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Jouvert, Studies in Travel Writing, Communal/Plural, Kunapipi, New Literatures Review, Victorian Literature and Culture, Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science, Biography. Essays: Malaya/Malaysia; Singapore.

Holmes, John. Lecturer in English Literature, University of Reading. Contributor to the journals Sidney Journal, Notes and Queries, and English Historical Review. Essays: Fletcher; Harriot; Ralegh.

Hopkins, Chris. Senior Lecturer in English Studies, Sheffield Hallam University. He works mainly on British writing between the wars, and Anglo-Welsh writing. He is the author of Thinking About Texts: An Introduction to English Studies (2001) and contributed to the journals Critical Survey, Literature and History, Focus on Robert Graves and his Contemporaries, Notes and Queries, The Journal of Gender Studies, The Review of Irish Studies, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, English Language Notes and Style. Essays: Byron; Younghusband.

Horne, Julia. University Historian, University of Sydney. Has written on travel and tourism in 18th and 19th- century Australia and her forthcoming book is a history of travel in 19th-century Australia. Essays: Australia.

Horta, José Silva. Lecturer, History Department, Lisbon University. Author of A representaçăo do Africano na Literatura de Viagens, do Senegal ŕ Serra Leoa (1453[-]1508) (1991), O Confronto do olhar: o encontro dos povos na época das navegaçőes portuguesas. Séculos XV e XVI. Portugal, África, Ásia, América (with others, 1991). Contributed to Condicionantes culturais da literatura de viagens: estudos e bibliografias edited by Fernando Alves Cristovăo (1999), Actas do Seminário Encontro de Povos e Culturas em Angola (1997), Colóquio Internacional "Construçăo e Ensino da História de África (1995), Estudos de Homenagem a Joaquim Veríssimo Serrăo, edited by M R. Barata de A. Cruz et al. (1995), História de Portugal dos tempos pré-históricos aos nossos dias, edited by Joăo Medina (1993). Also contributed articles to the journals History in Africa, Mare Liberum: Review of History of the Seas, Les Ateliers des Interprčtes. Révue Européenne pour Historiens d' Art. Essays: Guinea coast.

Hout, Syrine C. Assistant Professor of English at the American University of Beirut. Contributor to The Age of Revolution and Romanticism: Interdisplinary Studies edited by Gita May (1997), British Travel Writers 1940[-]1997 (Dictionary of Literary Biography 204) edited by Barbara Brothers and Julia M. Gergits (1999), Historicizing Christian Encounters with the Other edited by John C. Hawley (1998), Flight Against Time edited by Emily Nasrallah (forthcoming). Essays: Hajj.

Huff, Randall. Professor of English, Iowa State University, Ames. Author of American Popular Culture of the Revolutionary War (forthcoming). Essays: Mississippi River.

Jarvis, Robin. Reader, School of English, University of the West of England, Bristol. Author of Wordsworth, Milton and the Theory of Poetic Relations (1991), Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel (1997). Editor of Reviewing Romanticism (with Philip W. Martin, 1992). Contributed to Re-Membering Milton: Essays on the Texts and Traditions edited by Mary Nyquist and Margaret Ferguson (1988), Beyond Romanticism: New Approaches to Texts and Contexts 1780[-]1832 edited by Stephen Copley and John Whale (1992), The Politics of Pleasure: Aesthetics and Cultural Theory edited by Stephen Regan (1992), Romanticism, Theory, Gender edited by Tony Pinkney et al. (1995). Also contributed articles to Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Diacritics, Studies in Romanticism, The Wordsworth Circle, The Coleridge Bulletin. Essays: Romanticism; Walking.

Jenkins, McKay. Associate Professor of English, University of Delaware. Author of The South in Black and White: Race Sex and Literature in the 1940s (1999), The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zone (2000). Editor of The Peter Matthiessen Reader: A Selection of Nonfiction (2000). Also a contributor of many essays and pieces of journalism on issues of race and the environment. Essays: canoe; Thompson.

Jolly, Roslyn. Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of New South Wales. Author of Henry James: History, Narrative, Fiction (1993). Editor of South Sea Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson (1996). Contributed to Crossing Cultures: Essays on Literature and Culture of the Asia-Pacific, edited by Bruce Bennett et al.</