Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Dr. Elizabeth Barry is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, UK. She has published widely on Samuel Beckett in Journal of Beckett Studies, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui and Irish Studies Review, and her monograph, Beckett and Authority: The Uses of Cliché, appeared with Palgrave Macmillan in September 2006. She has also published book chapters on the dramatists Jean Genet, Roy Williams and Sarah Kane. She is currently editing a special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Studies on the cultural history of celebrity.
Roy Benjamin received his Ph.D. at the CUNY Graduate Center. His dissertation is entitled "The Triptych Vision: Joyce and Peirce" and in it he applies the ideas of Charles Sanders Peirce to Finnegans Wake. He has also edited a book of poetry entitled Ireland: A Celebration in Verse. Currently he is teaching English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College.
C. David Bertolini, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University. His research focuses on James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and film. He is currently completing a manuscript on the theory of difference and Samuel Beckett's How It Is. His article, "The Post-Mortem Image: Peter Greenaway's Documentary Death in the Seine and Writing the History of a Corpse," is forthcoming in Studies in Documentary Film.
Ruben Borg is a Lecturer in English and Italian literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His areas of teaching and research include modernism, Dante and literary theory. He has published numerous articles on twentieth-century fiction and is associate editor of Partial Answers —Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas. His book, The Measureless Time of Joyce, Deleuze and Derrida, was published by Continuum in 2007.
Flore Chevaillier specializes in contemporary fiction and critical theory. Her research focuses on the erotics of language in the fictions of Joseph McElroy, Carole Maso, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Steve Tomasula. Her work is informed by feminist theorists Julia Kristeva and Hélène Cixous, film critic Laura Marks, philosopher Georges Bataille, and the writings on avant-garde literature by Roland Barthes. Her essays have appeared in The Electronic Book Review and Sources. Revue d'études anglophones. [End Page 156]
Todd A. Comer, Assistant Professor at Defiance College, teaches modern and contemporary literature and film. He has published essays in SubStance and the Journal of Narrative Theory and has an essay forthcoming in the online journal Reconstruction. He is currently writing a manuscript titled Mourning and the Day After: Contemporary Fiction and Film.
Robert M. Kirschen is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He earned his M.A. from UNLV in 2006 and received his undergraduate degree from Emory University in 2002. He specializes in Modernist and Postmodern literature from the United States, England, and Ireland.
John P. McCombe is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Dayton. His research and teaching interests include twentieth-century British literature, Hollywood film, and the intersections between literature and popular music. He has published essays in numerous journals, including Twentieth-Century Literature, Cinema Journal, POST SCRIPT, and the James Joyce Quarterly.
Mark S. Morrisson is Associate Professor and Associate Head of English at Penn State University and author of The Public Face of Modernism: Little Magazines, Audiences, and Reception 1905-1920 (University of Wisconsin Press, 2001) and Modern Alchemy: Occultism and the Emergence of Atomic Theory (Oxford University Press, 2007). He was a founder and executive board member of the Modernist Studies Association, and serves on the advisory boards of projects dedicated to periodicals research, including the Modernist Journals Project. He is series editor of Refiguring Modernism: Arts, Literatures, Sciences, an interdisciplinary book series at Penn State University Press.
Karl Reisman has a Ph.D. in social anthropology with a specialty in anthropological linguistics from Harvard University. Earlier he studied literature with Rowse Wilcox, Harry Levin and Roman Jakobson. He has done field research in Antigua, West Indies, and in northeastern Nigeria and received a grant from the National Endowment from the Humanities for research on the African world in Finnegans Wake. He has taught at Vassar, Brandeis, Yale, and Temple. Some of this material was presented...
