Contributors
- Contributors
Anne-Emmanuelle Berger is Associate Professor of French Literature at Cornell University. She is the author of Le Banquet de Rimbaud: Recherches sur l’oralité (1992) and coeditor of Lectures de la différence sexuelle (vol. 1 1994; vol. 2 forthcoming). She is currently coediting a book of essays focusing on the linguistic question in Post-Colonial Algeria. A French version of the present essay appears in Littérature, 102.
Julie Choi is Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea. She is currently working on a book-length study entitled The Disembodied Voice from which this present essay is abstracted.
Matthew Griffin is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of German at New York University. He is a translator of plays and criticism and is currently preparing his dissertation on the theater collaborations between Heiner Müller and Robert Wilson.
Susanne Herrmann is an editor and translator. She studied German Literature and the Cinema at the Ruhr University, Bochum.
Martin A. Kayman is Professor of English and Head of the Department of Anglo-American Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He is the author of The Modernism of Ezra Pound (1986), From Bow Street to Baker Street: Mystery, Detection and Narrative (1992), and Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Portugal (1987). In addition to his current project on law and literature, he also works on the politics of the teaching of English in Europe.
Friedrich A. Kittler is Professor of Aesthetics and Media History at the Institute for Art and Cultural Studies at the Wilhelm von Humboldt University, Berlin. Among his many publications are Draculas Vermächtnis (1993), Dichter Mutter Kind (1991), Grammophon Film Typewriter (1986), and Aufschreibesysteme 1800/1900 (1985), which has been translated as Discourse Networks 1800/1900 (1990). He is presently working on a history of the optical media.
Annette Kolodny is Professor of Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies at the University of Arizona. She is currently completing Facing the Future, a feminist appeal on behalf of higher education in the twenty-first century, in which her article here will appear as a chapter.
James Noggle is Assistant Professor of English at Wellesley College. He has published articles on the literary dimensions of skepticism in Pope’s poetry and is completing a book called The Skeptical Sublime: The Abyss of Reason in Pope and the Tory Poets.
Henning Ritter is editor of the Humanities Section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The German version of the present essay was published in Akzente: Zeitschrift für Literatur, 1 (February 1995), Carl Hauser Verlag, Munich. He translated and edited a two-volume edition of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Schriften, 1978Schriften, 1987), a selection of essays by Jacob Burckhardt (Die Kunst der Betrachtung, 1985), and published a collection of essays under the title of Der lange Schatten (1992).
Eva-Maria Simms is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University. Her background is existential-phenomenological psychology, and her writings encompass the psychological study of literature, as well as the development of children. She has written about Rilke in German and English.
Charles D. Tarlton is Associate Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York, Albany. He has published articles on Machiavelli, Bentham, Locke, and Hobbes and is currently working on the concepts of moral duty and political responsibility in the writings of T. H. Green, F. H. Bradley, and Bernard Bosanquet.
Richard Waswo is Professor of English at the University of Geneva, and has published two books on Renaissance literature and language theory. The present essay is part of a book that will appear next year from the Wesleyan University Press, The Founding Legend of Western Civilization: From Virgil to Vietnam.
