Contributors

Stephen Allen teaches English in Albuquerque, where he has attended every Grateful Dead mini-conference at the annual meetings of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association. He has lost count of how many Grateful Dead shows he saw, but he knows he saw them in eleven different states. Email: allens@aa.edu.

Vaughan Black became a Dead fan in 1967 with the acquisition of their debut album. A contributor to Perspectives on the Grateful Dead (Greenwood, 1999), he has also written on music and the law with David Fraser. He is a professor of law at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Email: vblack@is.dal.ca.

Bob Cooperman fell in love with the Dead at the Fillmore East in 1969. A practicing poet since 1970, he has been published in numerous periodicals and magazines. His second collection of poems, In the Colorado Gold Fever Mountains (Western Reflections Publishing, 1999), won the Colorado Book Award in December, 2000. Letters: 2061 S. Humbolt Street, Denver, CO, 80210.

Christian Crumlish has written about the Grateful Dead for Deadbase IX (DeadBase, 1995), The Deadhead’s Taping Compendium, Vols. I–III (Holt, 1997-2000), JamBands.Com, and his own webzines Enterzone (www.ezone.org) and TheDeadBeat.com. A literary agent with Waterside Productions, he coedited Coffeehouse: Writings from the Web (Manning, 1998), an anthology that included a poem by Dead lyricist Robert Hunter. Email: xian@thedeadbeat.com.

Brian Dyke is a music critic and writer based in Minneapolis. A major contributor to The Deadhead’s Taping Compendium, Vols. I — III (Holt, 1997 — 2000), he is an avid blues fan and critic as well. Email: BDyke@cris.com.

Mary Goodenough saw her first Dead show after graduating from Cornell, while pursuing a Master’s in Slavic Languages and Literature from Berkeley. In addition to presenting papers at all three Grateful Dead mini-conferences at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, she also attended nearly 200 Dead shows. Email: garimella@earthlink.net.

David Habbel is an Associate Professor of Communication Arts at Utica College of Syracuse University, where his interests include communication theory and interpersonal and intercultural communication. His first Dead concert was Nov. 20, 1970, and he attended 232 more over 25 years. In addition to his academic work, he has contributed reviews to The Deadhead’s Taping Compendium, Vol. III (Holt, 2000) and presented a paper on the Dead at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association’s 1999 meeting. Email: dhabbel@utica.ucsu.edu.

Blair Jackson, author of the biography Garcia: An American Life (Viking, 1999), was editor of the Grateful Dead fan magazine The Golden Road (1984 — 1991). The executive editor of Mix Magazine, he has written several books and numerous articles on the band. Email: blair@blairjackson.com.

Alan Lehman teaches statistics and research methods and heads a private consultancy named Grateful Data. He wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on the music of the Grateful Dead as symbolic communication and has contributed papers to two Grateful Dead mini-conferences at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association annual meetings. Email: alehman@wam.umd.edu.

Nicholas Meriwether has lectured and written on the Dead since 1988, contributing to Skeleton Key (Doubleday, 1997), The Deadhead’s Taping Compendium, Vols. I — III (Holt, 1997 — 2000), Unbroken Chain, JamBands.Com, Enterzone, and others. A member of the National Coalition of Independent Scholars, he is currently editing All Graceful Instruments, an anthology of academic essays on the Dead. Email: Nicholas.Meriwether@DeadLettersMagazine.com.

Mary Ann Martinez dates her fascination with the Dead to an epiphany she had while listening to "Scarlet Begonias" in 1991. She has written on Robert Hunter and the Dead’s lyrics and assisted Robert Weiner with his editing of Perspectives on the Grateful Dead (Greenwood, 1999). Her first draft of this article was submitted to Dupree’s Diamond News, which was unable to publish it before ceasing operations. Email: nyssa23@hotmail.com.

Dale Osofsky wrote the paper on which her article was based as a senior at Rutgers, studying English under Professor William C. Dowling as a Howard Fellow, and presented it at the second annual Grateful Dead mini-conference. An active independent scholar, she now works at Coach, Inc., as a planner. Email: DOsofsky@coach.com.

David Pelovitz teaches English at University Lake School, WI, where he concentrates on twentienth-century American authors and Thomas Pynchon in particular. A veteran of nearly one hundred shows, he has contributed to Skeleton Key (Doubleday, 1997), Perspectives on the Grateful Dead (Greenwood, 1999), and a number of internet and print magazines. Email: DrVitz@excite.com.

Lans Smith is professor of English at Midwestern State University, where he specializes in Comparative Literature. A Deadhead since 1970, he has published four books on mythology and modernist literature; he presented this paper at the third annual Grateful Dead mini-conference at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association meeting. Email: fsmithl@nexus.mwsu.edu.

Jeff Tiedrich was a major consultant and contributor to The Deadhead’s Taping Compendium, Vols. I — III (Holt, 1997-2000). An active scholar and participant in the online Dead world, he is proprietor of the web site "Resources For Tape and Disc Traders." Email: Jeff@tiedrich.com.

Mark Tursi gave an earlier version of his paper for this issue at the second annual Grateful Dead mini-conference, when he was a graduate student at Colorado State University. A Deadhead since his first show in Rochester in 1986, he is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Creative Writing at the University of Denver. Email: Tursi@hotmail.com.

Rob Weiner organized the first three Grateful Dead mini-conferences at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association meetings, beginning in 1998. In addition to editing the academic anthology Perspectives on the Grateful Dead (Greenwood, 1999), he coedited with David Dodd the annotated bibliography, The Grateful Dead and the Deadheads (Greenwood, 1998). Email: rgw0001@door.net.