KENNETH M. ROEMER (B.A., Harvard; M.A., Ph. D., Univ. of Pennsylvania), an Academy of Distinguished Teachers and Academy of Distinguished Scholars Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, has received four NEH grants to direct Summer Seminars and has been a Visiting Professor in Japan, a guest lecturer at Harvard, and has lectured in Vienna, Lisbon, Brazil, Ireland, and Turkey. He is past President of the Society for Utopian Studies, past Vice President of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures, and past Chair of the American Indian Literatures Division of the Modern Language Association (MLA). He was Managing Editor of American Literary Realism and Assistant Editor of American Quarterly. He serves on the Advisory Board of PMLA. His articles have appeared in journals such as American Literature, American Literary History, Modern Fiction Studies, Technology and Culture, Studies in American Indian Literatures, and Utopian Studies. MLA published his Approaches to Teaching Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain (ed.); his Native American Writers of the United States (ed.) won a Writer of Year Award from Wordcraft Circle. He has written four books on utopian literature: The Obsolete Necessity: America in Utopian Writings (which was nominated for a Pulitzer in American History), America as Utopia (ed.), Build Your Own Utopia, and Utopian Audiences: How Readers Locate Nowhere (which was nominated for the MLA's Lowell Prize). His collection of personal narratives, verse, and photography about Japan is entitled Michibata de Deatta Nippon (A Sidewalker's Japan). His latest book is the co-edited volume, The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature. Since 1995 he has been the Faculty Advisor for the Native American Students Association at UT Arlington.