Contributors
- Contributors
Michael Chapman is Professor of English at the University of Natal (Durban). He is the author of numerous articles and several books on South African literature including South African English Poetry: A Modern Perspective (1984) and, most recently, Southern African Literatures (1996).
Xiaomei Chen is Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, at Ohio State University. She is the author of Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-discourse in Post-Mao China (1995) and numerous articles published in Critical Inquiry, Representations, Journals of Asian Studies, Comparative Literary Studies, and others.
Denise Gigante is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Princeton University, working on a dissertation entitled Tropics of Romantic Subjectivity: Electrometers, Armchairs, Blood, and Other Related (Sibling) Matters. Her recent work on a theory of the Ugly in Frankenstein is forthcoming in ELH.
Gerd Hurm is Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of Freiburg. He is the author of Fragmented Urban Images: The American City in Modern Fiction (1991), and coeditor, with Paul Goetsch, of The Fourth of July: Political Oratory and Literary Reactions, 1776–1876 (1992). He is completing a study on the uses of oral discourse in the writings of Mark Twain.
Sheila Miyoshi Jager is affiliated with the University of Maryland, East Asian Division in South Korea. She has published articles in the Journal of Asian Studies, positions: east asia cultures critiques, and her book The Genealogy of Patriotism: Writing Family Histories in Modern Korea is currently under publication review.
Adam Brooke Davis is Associate Professor of English at Truman State University. He has published poetry and fiction as well as critical, theoretical, and scholarly articles on medieval and oral traditional literature.
Svend Erik Larsen is Professor of Literature, Department of Comparative Literature, at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the author of Sémiologie littéraire (1984) and, in Danish, The Geometry of Language 1–2 (1986), Signs in Use (with J. Dines Johansen) (1995), and Nature doesn’t care (1996).
Herbert Marks teaches Comparative Literature and directs the Institute for Biblical and Literary Studies at Indiana University. He is currently working on a critical edition of the Bible for students of literature.
Joan Ramon Resina is Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University. His most recent book is El cadáver en la cocina: La novela criminal en la cultura del desencanto (1997). He is at work on a book about the city and the narrative imaginary.
Brian Stock, an Advisory Editor of New Literary History, presently holds the International Chair at the Collège de France. His most recent study is Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation (1996).
