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BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS

Jane DuPm Bagos, editor/publisher of t&men’s Dia- ries Newsletter, compiled the first Annora~ed Bibhogm- phy of Atblished Itbmen’s Diaries in 1977. She is author of several articles on women’s diaries and conducts pro- grams of diary readings throughout the United States and in Europe. Recently mired as programs director of a New York State historic site, she currently resides in Frankfurt. After January, she and her husband will make their home in Zurich.

Lynn 2. Bloom, Professor of English at Virginia Com- monwealth University, is the author of Doctor Spoch: Biogmphy of a Conservative Radical (1972). co-author of American Autobiography, 1945-1980 (1982) and is currently writing Songs of Ourselves: A History of American Aufobiogmphy. The research for this article is a follow-up study of the unique internment camp popu- lation depicted in Natalie Crouter’s Forbidden Diary: A Record of Wartime Inrernmenr, 1941-1945 (1980), which Lynn Bloom edited, and has led to the discovery of another dozen autobiographical manuscripts from the same group.

Tree Broughton is a Yorkshirewoman. She has been studying English and related literature at the University of York for six years, and is currently working on her D.Phil thesis. Her work on Margaret Oliphant owes much to the guidance, enthusiasm and unflinching sup- port of Hermione Lee. Trcv has recently joined the Women’s Studies team at York, and thanks her new col- leagues for their affectionate welcome.

Suzanne L. Bunkers, associate professor of English at Mankato State University in Mankato, Minnesota, was born and raised in rural Iowa. She has lived throughout the Midwestern United States and is particularly inter- ested in discovering more about the lives of 19th century Midwestern American women. At present she is writing a book on the unpublished diaries and journals of 19th century Midwestern women while raising her young daughter, Rachel Susanna.

Joanne Cooper has been keeping a journal for over ten years. She teaches in the English department at South- western Oregon Community College in the United States. She presently holds an MS in Speech Pathology and Audiology, an MA in Curriculum and Instruction, and is pursuing a PhD at the University of Oregon where she hopes to continue her research on women’s journals and diaries. While on sabbatical leave, she lived in En- gland for five months and worked with Dale Spender. She was also involved in the Wiltshire/Somerset Write to

Learn Project and the Oregon Writing Project in the states. She will be conducting local workshops and lcc- tures on journal writing and comparative education, and hopes to do local research on the diaries and jour- nals of women of the Oregon Coast.

Alke A. Deck has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton. She has published articles on modern African and Afro- American literature in various American journals. At present she is completing a comparative study of mod- em African and Afro-American women’s autobiog- raphies, and editing an anthology of black women’s au- tobiographical writings from Africa, Australia, Brazil and the United States. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Afro-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.

Cynthia Huff is currently teaching women’s studies and literature courses part-time at the University of Iowa, where she received a PhD in English in 1984 and a Mas- ter’s in History in 1980. In 1981-82 she conducted pri- mary research in Great Britain with the aid of a Fulbright Research Grant, work which resulted in her 1985 book, British Women’s Diaries. She has delivered numerous papers and published articles on feminist psy- choanalysis, the diary genre, and women’s social and familial roles. She is looking forward to editing an an- thology of women’s accounts of confinement, which will happily coincide with the birth of her first child.

Estelle Jclinck recently published a literary history, 7he Tradhion of Women’s Autobiography (1986), and is the editor of Women’s Autobiography: Essays in Criticism (1980). She lives in Berkeley, California.

Dale Spender is a graduate of Australian and British universities, a Visiting Fellow of the University of Lon- don, a researcher, writer, editor, and public speaker. She has written and edited books and articles in numerous areas always with the aim of discovering and construct- ing women’s heritage and traditions. Her recent publica- tions include Morhers of the Novel: One Hundred Good Women Writers bt$om Jane Ausren (1986) and, with Sally Cline, Reflecring Men (1987); soon to be published are Australian Women Wrifers: Two Hundred Years, The Diary of Mrs &pys and The Writing or the Sex: The Judgemenr of Literary Men. Her current project is the researching and writing of an eight volume history of women’s writing.

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102 Biographical Statements

Liz Stanley is working-class and part Romany by birth, a feminist by conviction, and a lesbian by luck. As well as being interested in ‘biography’ in relation to Hannah Cuiiwick, Arthur Munby, and Olive Scbreiner, she has recently started work on a joint project with three othei working-class by birth feminist sociologists which looks at ‘class’ in experiential and biographic terms; the pro- ject is called ‘Our Mother’s Voices.’ She has just become British editor of Women’s Studies International F&urn. Her first academic love is still Sociology, to which she remains faithful. A survivor of first the (men’s) left and then the gay (men’s) movement of the early 1970s. she lives in domestic bliss with Sue Wise and devotes any spare time and energy to food, cats, and books, in changing permutations of that order. She is also a con- noisseur of brief biographies!

Anna wten studied English as a mature student at Bedford College, University of London. Whilst working as Head of the English Department a1 a Comprehensive school, she took her Master’s at London University’s Institute of Education. Her work there, on Elizabeth Gaskeii, formed the basis of an introduction to Eliza- beth Gaskell’s Four S/tort Stories (Pandora Press, 1983) and an article published in Women’s Studies Interno- tionaf Forwn in 1979. For the past six years, Anna Wai- ters has been working as a research executive in market- ing and advertising; she recently has resigned her position as Company Dinctor in order to acheive a bct- ter balance between business activities and writing.