Contributors
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Amos Goldberg teaches in the Department of Hebrew Literature at Ben-Gurion University and in the Department of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published various articles on the relations between trauma, theory, and historiography in regard to the Holocaust. He is the editor of the Hebrew translation of Dominick LaCapra's book Writing History, Writing Trauma. His book about Jewish autobiographical writing during the Holocaust will be published in Hebrew in 2007.
Hisao Ishizuka teaches at Japan Women's University, Tokyo. He has published a number of essays on William Blake and eighteenth-century medicine, as well as on related topics dealing with the body, medicine, and culture. Currently, he is completing a book-length study on Blake and eighteenth-century medical sciences. He coedited (with Akihito Suzuki) Shintai Ibunkaron (Body, Medicine, and Culture), volumes one (Desire and the Senses) and four (The Technology of Dietetics).
Ann Jurecic is an assistant professor in the Rutgers University English Department, where she teaches literature and medicine, as well as writing. She is at work on a book entitled Composing Illness that examines literary accounts of disease and disorder, attending in particular to moments when writing enables the relationship between medical discourse and patient experience to become more reciprocal and fluid. Professor Jurecic has recently published in the journal Pedagogy.
Meegan Kennedy is an assistant professor of English at Florida State University. She studies Victorian medicine and science, theory and history of the British novel, fiction of empire, visual culture, and gender theory. She has published articles and reviews in Victorian Literature and Culture, Women's Writing, and Victorian Studies. She is currently revising a book manuscript, "Rewriting the Clinic: Vision and Representation in Victorian Medicine and the Novel," that examines theories of observation and representation in nineteenth-century British medical case histories and the Victorian novel.
Bradley Lewis, MD, PhD, is an assistant professor at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, with affiliated appointments in the School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. He has dual training in humanities and psychiatry, and he writes and teaches at the interface of medicine, humanities, cultural studies, and disability studies. Lewis is the author of Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry: The Birth of Postpsychiatry and associate editor for the Journal of Medical Humanities. [End Page 186]
Stuart Murray teaches in the School of English at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Originally trained as a postcolonialist, he now divides both his teaching and his research between postcolonial literature and film and cultural representations of cognitive impairments. He is the series editor of Liverpool University Press's new Representations series, which focuses on issues of heath, disability, and culture, and his study Representing Autism: Culture, Narrative, Fascination will be published by Liverpool University Press in 2007.
Nirit Salmon-Bitton currently teaches literature at Jerusalem College and in the Institute for Advanced Teacher Training. She is also involved in the creation of a new program for teaching literature online. In her recent doctoral dissertation, entitled "Towards a Narrative Self: From Narcissistic Fragmentation to a Dialogical Process," she suggests a theory in which the self is constructed through an intrasubjective dialogue between narrative positions. Her interests bridge the narratological and psychological disciplines, with a stress on post-traumatic constructions of the self.
Gabriele Schwab is Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Irvine. She is also a faculty associate in the Department of Anthropology and former director of the Critical Theory Institute. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Heisenberg Fellowship and was a research fellow in residence at the Australian National University. In addition, since 2001 she is affiliated with the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute and practices as a psychoanalyst in Newport Beach. Her books in English include Subjects without Selves: Transitional Texts in Modern Fiction (Harvard UP, 1994); The Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary Language (Indiana UP, 1997); Accelerating Possessions: Global Futures of Property and Personhood (Columbia UP, 2006), a volume of critical essays, coedited with William Maurer; and a special...
