Cecilia Konchar Farr is Dean of the College of Liberal and Creative Arts at West Liberty State University in West Virginia where, in addition to her work as dean, she teaches, researches, and writes about higher education, popular literature and the history of the novel. She is author of The Ulysses Delusion: Rethinking Standards of Literary Merit and Reading Oprah: How Oprah’s Book Club Changes the Way America Reads, and editor of several essay collections. An English professor, feminist theorist, and faculty advocate, she lives in Pittsburgh, just across the river from Gertrude Stein’s first home.

• Introduction
  “The Long Unmaking of The Making of Americans,” by Cecilia Konchar Farr
• Biography: “Becoming Gertrude Stein," by Janie Sisson
• Publication History, by Janie Sisson
• Early Reception: “Damned naughty Gertrude," by Cecilia Konchar Farr
• Archival Insights: The Continuous Making of The Making of Americans

• Chapter One The Narrator, They: Metafictional Authorial Intent
• Chapter Two The Modernist Sentence: They are All of Them Repeating
• Chapter Three On Being American: Geography, Nationality and Class
• Chapter Four Lesbian Subtexts: The Unmaking of Patriarchy 81

• Cast of Characters
• Illustration: Family Tree
• One:
  The Dehnings and the Herslands, The Hersland Parents, Mrs. Hersland and the Hersland Children, Martha Hersland
• Two:
  Alfred Hersland and Julia Dehning
• Three:
  David Hersland
• Four:
  History of a Family’s Progress