Gail Porter Mandell is Professor of Humanistic Studies at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana. Her previous work includes The Phoenix Paradox: A Study of Renewal Through Change in the Poetry of D. H. Lawrence and Madeleva: One Woman's Life. She was the 1987-88 recipient of the Lilly Open Fellowship (awarded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. for the study of biography).
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