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  • Contributors

Julie Choi is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea. Her recently published work engages with a range of issues that mark the modernity of eighteenth-century English novels. Based on her reading of Simmel, she is currently at work on a book about the “metropolitan” rise of the novel.

Robert Chodat is Assistant Professor of English at Boston University, where he teaches and writes on twentieth-century American thought and literature, especially the intersection of contemporary fiction and philosophy. He is currently completing a study of modern literature and philosophy of mind entitled “Person and Presence: Ideas of Agency from Stein to DeLillo.”

Benjamin Griffin is an Associate Editor at the Mark Twain Project at the Bancroft Library, University of California—Berkeley. He is the author of Playing the Past: Approaches to English Drama 1385–1600 (2001) and of articles on Renaissance literature and on Mark Twain.

Robert Hurd is Assistant Professor of English at Anne Arundel Community College. He has recently published an article in The James Joyce Quarterly and is currently working on his book manuscript entitled Monuments and Notes: Modernist Notebooks and the Literary Marketplace, a study of the conceptualization of the modernist notebook as an autonomous holdout against the commodification of literature.

Jørgen Lorentzen is Assistant Professor at the Center for Gender Studies, University of Oslo. He has written several books and articles within the field of literary analysis and masculinity. The most recent books are Män i Norden: Manlighet och modernitet 1840–1940 [Nordic Men: Manliness and Modernity 1840–1940] (2006); Kjønnsforskning: En grunnbok [Gender Studies: An Introduction] (2006); and Maskulinitet [Masculinity] (2004). He is now working on a project on the history of fatherhood in Norway.

Adam Muller is Associate Professor of English and Research Associate with the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba. He specializes in literary theory, analytic aesthetics, and cultural studies. He is the editor of Concepts of Culture: Art, Politics, and Society (2006) and has published articles on diverse topics in Cultural Critique, Textual Studies in Canada, and The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. His current research focuses on the representation of war in literature and film.

Rachel Price is completing her graduate studies in the Literature Program at Duke University. She is working on a manuscript about nineteenth- and twentieth-century literatures and comparative imperialisms in the Anglophone, Hispanophone, and Lusophone Atlantic.

Daniel Punday is Associate Professor at Purdue University—Calumet. His books include Narrative after Deconstruction (2002) and Narrative Bodies (2003), and he has recently completed a book-length study of fictionality within and outside of contemporary American literary institutions. He is currently beginning a new project on the idea of multimedia narrative, especially as reflected in written texts.

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