JOHN AYRE is a journalist who is author of Northrop Frye: A Biography published by Random House of Canada in 1989. On many occasions he has lectured on Northrop Frye’s thinking and published several articles, notably “Frye’s Geometry of Thought” in the University of Toronto Quarterly in Fall 2001.
D. M. R. BENTLEY is Carl F. Klinck Professor in Canadian Literature at the University of Western Ontario. His recent publications include the Norton Critical Edition of Stephen Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, “Tradition on Location: Ted Goodden’s Ridgeway Windows,” and essays on the poetry and painting of William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and other Pre-Raphaelites.
ROBERT DENHAM is the world’s greatest expert on the work of Northrop Frye. He was John P. Fishwick Professor of English at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia, until he recently retired. His books on Frye include Northrop Frye on Literature and Society, 1936-1989, Northrop Frye’s Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts, and Northrop Frye’s Notebooks for “Anatomy of Criticism.”
MICHAEL DOLZANI was Frye’s graduate student from 1978 to 1982; his research assistant from 1980 to 1991; the co-editor, with Robert Denham, of his unpublished work for the Collected Works project; and the editor of Words With Power, forthcoming in the cw. He has taught at Baldwin-Wallace College, in Berea, Ohio (a suburb of Cleveland), since 1989, and is currently chair of the English Department.
JEFFERY DONALDSON is professor at McMaster University and is co-editor of Frye and the Word: Religious Contexts in the Writings of Northrop Frye (2004) as well as of Introduction to Frye and the Word: Religious Contexts in the Writings of Northrop Frye (2004).
TRONI GRANDE is associate professor of English at the University of Regina, where she teaches Shakespeare, early modern drama, and theory. She is author of Marlovian Tragedy: The Play of Dilation (1999). She is also co-editor of Frye’s writings on Shakespeare and the Renaissance for the Collected Works series.
DAVID JARRAWAY is professor of American Literature at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of Wallace Stevens and the Question of Belief: “Metaphysician in the Dark” (1993), Going the Distance: Dissident Subjectivity in Modernist American Literature (2003), and many essays on American literature and culture, most recently a chapter inclusion in “The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens” (2006).
ALVIN LEE is the general editor of the thirty-volume Collected Works of Northrop Frye project; he has edited two volumes himself, including an edition of Frye’s The Great Code. He also wrote the introduction to the Penguin Modern Classics editions of The Great Code and Words With Power. He is also an internationally renowned scholar of Old English and served with great distinction as the president and vice-chancellor of McMaster University from 1980 to 1990.
JEAN O’GRADY is associate editor of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye. She has two forthcoming publications relating to Frye: one, “Interviews with Northrop Frye” and two, as co-editor, “Northrop Frye, The Critical Path and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1963– 75.” Dr. O’Grady also had the pleasure of being a student of Frye’s at Queen’s College.
J. RUSSELL PERKIN is professor of English at Saint Mary’s University. He published A Reception-History of George Eliot’s Fiction in 1990, and he is the author of several pieces on Frye, including studies of Frye and Catholicism and Frye and Matthew Arnold. He teaches the Bible and Literature, and is primarily a Victorianist. His current research includes the interrelationship of masculinity and religion in Victorian literature.
GARRY SHERBERT is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Regina. He is co-editor of volume 28 in The Collected Works of Northrop Frye entitled Northrop Frye’s Writings on Shakespeare and The Renaissance. He is the author of Menippean Satire and the Poetics of Wit (Lang 1996) and has recently co-edited Canadian Cultural Poesis: Essays on Canadian Culture (Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2006). He has published essays on Northrop Frye and Jacques Derrida and also has an essay on culture in the July issue of Mosaic.
MICHAEL SINDING’S McMaster University dissertation reconsiders Northrop Frye’s and Mikhail Bakhtin’s views of genre and Menippean satire. He was granted a SSHRCC postdoctoral fellowship to study genre mixture as “conceptual blending” and is now entering a Humboldt Fellowship year at Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany, to further research genre in terms of cognitive psychology and linguistics. He has published in New Literary History, Genre, Semiotica, Style, Postmodern Culture and other journals.
IAN SLOAN is a minister of the United Church of Canada in Sudbury, Ontario. He has presented papers on Frye and theology at various conferences. He organized and chaired the symposium Creation and Recreation: Northrop Frye and United Church Ministry as part of his appointment as a research associate at the Northrop Frye Centre, Victoria University, in 2000 and 2001. A fellow of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies at Toronto since 2001, he has lectured in English Literature at Guelph, Madonna University in Detroit, and Laurentian University in Sudbury.
ROBERT STACEY is member of the Department of English at the University of Ottawa, where he teaches Canadian literature. He has published articles on Leonard Cohen, John Steffler, William Kirby, Anne Hebert, Hugh MacLennan, and Al Purdy. His recent work has focussed on genre and the historical imagination in Canadian poetry and fiction.
SÁRA TÓTH teaches at Károli Gáspár University of the Hungarian Reformed Church in Budapest, Hungary. Her main area of interest is the interplay between Christianity and the arts, more particularly literature and Christian belief, literature and the Bible. She completed her doctorate in 2003 with a dissertation on the religious aspects of the work of Northrop Frye.
THOMAS WILLARD teaches courses in English and Religious Studies at the University of Arizona. His essays on Frye include contributions to Centre and Labyrinth: Essays in Honour of Northrop Frye (1982), Visionary Poetics: Essays on Northrop Frye’s Criticism (co-edited with Robert D. Denham, 1991), The Legacy of Northrop Frye (1994), and Northrop Frye: Eastern and Western Perspectives (2003). He is now writing a book on Frye’s literary pedagogy. In addition he has written on alchemy and literature and has edited the works of Jean d’Espagne (2000).