NANCY R. COMLEY, professor and chair of English and former director of freshman composition at Queens College, CUNY, has written numerous articles on teaching writing and literature and on modernist literature. She has published, with Robert Scholes, Hemingway's Genders: Rereading the Hemingway Text (1994). Her Bedford/St. Martin's publications include The Practice of Writing, Fifth Edition (2001), with Robert Scholes and Janice Peritz, and Text Book: Writing Through Literature, Third Edition (2002), with Robert Scholes and Gregory L. Ulmer.