Contributors
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Brian Boyd, University Distinguished Professor in English at the University of Auckland, writes and teaches on literature from Homer to Spiegelman, but is best known for his Nabokov work, including Nabokov’s “Ada”: The Place of Consciousness (1985, 2001); the biographies Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (1990) and Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (1991); and Nabokov’s Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery (1999). His ongoing annotations to Ada, ADA Online, currently at http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/ada/index.htm, are already longer than any of his books. He has just completed an evolutionary account of fiction, On the Origin of Stories.
Susan Fraiman is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Her publications in the area of gender and culture include Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development (1993); Cool Men and the Second Sex (2003); and articles in such journals as Feminist Studies, PMLA, and Critical Inquiry. She writes frequently on Jane Austen and is editor of the Norton Critical Northanger Abbey (2004). This essay is part of her current work on forms of shelter writing from realist novels to reality TV.
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is the Albert Guérard Professor of Literature at Stanford University. Among his books on literary theory and literary and cultural history are Eine Geschichte der spanischen Literatur (1990; Spanish translation forthcoming); Making Sense in Life and Literature (1992); In 1926: Living at the Edge of Time (1998); Corpo e forma (2001); Vom Leben und Sterben der großen Romanisten (2002); The Powers of Philology (2003); Production of Presence (2004); and In Praise of Athletic Beauty (2006). He is a regular contributor to the humanities section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, NZZ (Zürich), and the Folha de São Paulo. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Professeur attaché au Collège de France, and has been a visiting professor at numerous universities on several continents, most recently at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.
Martin Hägglund is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Cornell University and the author of Chronophobia: Essays on Time and Finitude, which was published in Swedish in 2002. He has also edited and written the preface to the Swedish translation of Derrida’s Spectres de Marx. He is currently completing his first book in English entitled Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life.
Robert Kern is Associate Professor of English at Boston College, where he teaches courses on the Whitman tradition, nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry, and American nature writing. His articles and reviews, mostly on modern [End Page 483] and postmodern American poetry, have appeared in a wide range of journals and several anthologies, and he is the author of Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem (1996). Currently, he is at work on an ecocritical study of the tensions between anthropocentrism and ecocentrism in a variety of American literary texts, both poetry and prose.
John M. Picker is Associate Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. He is the author of Victorian Soundscapes (2003) and essays in ELH, Victorian Studies, and The American Scholar. He is currently working on two book-length projects, “The Telegrammatic Impulse” and “Shylock Unlocked.”
Richard van Oort is a postdoctoral fellow in the English Department at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He is very interested in the problem of human origin and has recently finished a manuscript on the topic. His next project is entitled Shakespearean Anthropology.
Matthew Wilkens is a PhD candidate in the Literature Program at Duke University. He is currently completing a book on the relationship between allegory and the event in late modernist fiction and has published articles on contemporary French philosophy, American and Anglophone fiction, and science studies.
Lisa Lai-ming Wong is Assistant Professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She teaches and writes on the literary relations between China and the West. Her main research areas include modern poetry, lyrical theory, and comparative literature. Several of her recent works have appeared in journals such as The Keats-Shelley Review (UK), Modern China, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, and...
