Amy J. Elias is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. She teaches courses in contemporary world literatures and critical theory and is completing a book on dialogue and the multidisciplinary arts. Her third book, conceived as the second part of the dialogue project, will concern wisdom, genre, and the arts. Professor Elias's book
_Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction_(Johns Hopkins UP, 2001) won the George and Barbara Perkins award from the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. Her essays have appeared in _New Literary History_, _Postmodern Culture_, _Contemporary Literature_, _Modern Fiction Studies_, _Re-thinking History_, _Soundings_, _Critical Survey_, _Critique_, _Pynchon Notes_, and other journals, and her essays are included in _English Studies: An Introduction to the Discipline_ (NCTA), _South to a New Place_ (Louisiana State UP, 2002), and in MLA volumes on narrative theory and on the novels of Thomas Pynchon. She is the founder of A.S.A.P.: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, and is currently serving as association president. See her website at <http://web.utk.edu/~aelias2/index_home.htm>.