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Beverly Voloshin

San Francisco State University

Beverly Voloshin is the editor of American Literature, Culture, and Ideology: Essays in Memory of Henry Nash Smith (1990); author of a chapter on Poe's literary theory in A Companion to Poe Studies (1996); and author of articles on American literature and on theory. Voloshin served as editor of special issues for Pacific Coast Philology. She is past president of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association. Recently she has offered a course on the American imagination of Palestine and has been a visiting scholar at Al Quds University, Palestine. She is also a painter.