The Authors
Mary Weaks-Baxter is the Hazel Koch Professor
of English at Rockford College, where she teaches courses in
rhetoric and literature. She has co-edited three books,
including Talking with Robert Penn Warren, Southern Women's
Literature, and The History of Southern Women's Literature,
and written a monograph, Reclaiming the American Farmer: The
Reinvention of a Regional Mythology in Twentieth-Century
Southern Writing.
Christine Bruun is Professor Emerita of
Psychology and former chair of the Psychology Department at
Rockford College. She is also a clinical psychologist.
Bruun's current research interest concerns the
intergenerational aspects of empathy. With a collateral
interest in history and the classics, she has also published
a psychological analysis of the Aeneid.
Catherine Forslund is Professor of History and
chair of the History Department at Rockford College, where
she teaches U.S., Latin American, and Asian history. Her
publications include Anna Chennault: Informal Diplomacy and
Asian Relations and the forthcoming Edith Kermit Roosevelt:
Victorian Modern First Lady, for which she received a White
House Historical Association grant.