Fields of Reading: Motives for Writing
NANCY R. COMLEYis Professor and Chair of the English Department at Queens College, City University of New York.  In addition toFields, she has co-editedThe Practice of WritingandText Bookfor Bedford/St. Martin's, and is co-author with Robert Scholes ofHemingway's Genders(Yale UP). She has also directed the writing program at the University of Oklahoma.DAVID HAMILTONis a Professor of English at the University of Iowa where he has directed the MFA program in literary nonfiction and editedThe Iowa Review.His essays have been published in numerous journals, including theConnecticut Review, Michigan Quarterly Review,andCollege English;his books areOssabaw(Salt Publishing) andDeep River: A Memoir of a Missouri Farm(University of Missouri Press).CARL H. KLAUS, Professor Emeritus at the University of Iowa and founding director of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program, currently serves as co-editor (with Patricia Hampl) of Sightline Books: the University of Iowa Press Series in Literary Nonfiction. Essayist, diarist, and memoirist, Klaus is the author ofMy Vegetable Love: A Journal of a Growing Season(Houghton Mifflin);Weathering Winter:A Gardener’s Daybook(University Of Iowa Press); Taking Retirement:A Beginner’s Diary(Beacon Press);andLetters to Kate: Life after Life(University of Iowa Press).He is also the co-author or co-editor of several textbooks on writing.ROBERT SCHOLES, professor of modern culture and media at Brown University, is a distinguished teacher and a scholar in literary studies. He has published many influential books and articles, includingThe Rise and Fall of English: Reconstructing English as a Discipline(1998);Protocols of Reading(1989); andTextual Power: Literary Theory and the Teaching of English(1985), which won the Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize of the Modern Language Association in 1986 and the David H. Russell Research Award from NCTE in 1988. Scholes is a contributor of numerous articles and book reviews to learned journals, literary magazines, and weekly reviews.Well-known for her research and publications on student writing, Dr.NANCY SOMMERSled the Expository Writing Program at Harvard University for 21 years, and now teaches writing and mentors new teachers at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. She has co-authored six textbooks, includingA Writer’s Reference(Bedford/St.Martin’s), and has received numerous awards for her teaching, research, and writing, including the prestigious Braddock Award, which she has received twice. Dr. Sommers’ most recent work involves a longitudinal study of 400 students from the Harvard Class of 2001 to understand the role writing plays in undergraduate education.JASON TOUGAWis Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Writing Across the Curriculum program at Queens College. He is author ofStrange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel(Routledge, 2006) and co-editor, with Nancy K. Miller, ofExtremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community(University of Illinois Press). Currently, his writing focuses on connections between neurobiology and the arts, new media pedagogies, and creative nonfiction. He has published essays and creative nonfiction inJAC,Computers & Composition,a/b: Auto/biography Studies, and the anthologyBoys to Men: Gay Men Write about Growing Up.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.