Contributors
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Brunella Antomarini is Professor of Philosophy at John Cabot University in Rome, where she teaches aesthetics, contemporary philosophy, and the philosophy of social science. She is the author of Trascendenza e finitezza. L’estetica di Hans urs von Balthasar (2004); co-director of the philosophical book-series Montag, published in Rome; and editor of the philosophical journal il cannocchiale. She has published many articles that are part of her ongoing research regarding contemplative perception in art and its cognitive value, and she is currently working on a book about forms and knowledge.
Susan Gubar is Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University. Her most recent books are Racechanges: White Skin, Black Face in American Culture (1997), Critical Condition: Feminism at the Turn of the Century (2000), and Poetry After Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew (2003).
Norman N. Holland is Marston-Milbauer Professor at the University of Florida. He has recently completed a book-length study of the way the brain functions in the creation and re-creation of literature. This will be his fourteenth book of literary criticism and theory.
Svend Erik Larsen is Professor of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark. His latest books are Signs in Use (2002), Mutters alene [All alone] (2002), and I byen med Balzac [In the City with Balzac] (2002). He has written on literature and cultural history, particularly on literature and urban culture and literature and the conception of nature. He is also the editor of several volumes, among others Nature: La littérature et son autre [Literature and its Otherness] (1997), La rue–espace ouvert (1997), and Balzac (2000).
Sean Latham is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tulsa, the editor of the James Joyce Quarterly, and co-director of the Modernist Journals Project. His works include Am I a Snob? Modernism and the Novel (2003), Joyce’s Modernism (2004), and essays on modern literature and digital studies. Currently, he is completing work on a new book, Vicious Lives: The Open Secrets and Illicit Pleasures of the Modern Novel.
Allan H. Pasco is the Hall Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Kansas. His last book, Sick Heroes (1997), argues that problems within families led to the major characteristics of the French Romantic Hero. He has published many articles in such journals as PMLA, New Literary History, Comparative Literature, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. He has recently completed an anthology of nineteenth-century French short stories and is currently [End Page 523] working on a book concerned with the ideal of love in late eighteenth-century France.
Kate Rigby is Senior Lecturer in German Studies and Comparative Literature and Director of the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University. She is the President of the Australia-New Zealand Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, co-editor of the journal PAN (Philosophy Activism Nature), and author of Transgressions of the Feminine: Tragedy, Enlightenment and the Figure of Woman in Classical German Drama (1996) and, with Silke Beinssen-Hesse, Out of the Shadows: Contemporary German Feminism (1996). Her new book, Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism, is forthcoming in 2004.
Ward Tietz is a poet and theorist best known for his work with large, three-dimensional letters and words made from steel, wood, wax and other materials. His recent performances include The Myth of Metal; The Myth of Wood (Washington, D. C.) and, in collaboration with Ambroise Barras, INOUI HM (Geneva, Switzerland). He is currently working on three books: Poetic Connectivity Across Culture, The Radical Poetics Reader, and HG?The Liquid. He teaches in the English Department at Georgetown University.
Shira Wolosky received her Ph.D. from Princeton University and was an Associate Professor of English at Yale University before moving to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she is Professor of English and American Literature. She is the author of Emily Dickinson: A Voice of War (1984); Language Mysticism (1995); The Art of Poetry: How To Read a Poem (2001); and Poetry and Public Discourse: The Cambridge History of American Literature, vol. 4 (1994). Her current book project is The Values of Feminism: Feminist Theory and...
