Contributors
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Richard Aczel teaches English and American Literature at the University of Cologne. He is the author of National Character and European Identity in Hungarian Literature, 1772–1848 (1996). His main areas of publication have been central European cultural history, narrative theory, and Renaissance rhetoric. He is currently completing a book on voice and ventriloquism in Henry James.
Kate E. Brown is Assistant Professor of English at Emory University, where she teaches Victorian Literature. She is currently completing a book entitled Figures of Loss: Charlotte Brontë and the Elaboration of Mourning. She has also published articles on the temporality of loss and on miniaturization as a mode of mourning.
Dorrit Cohn is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, emerita, at Harvard University, where she taught German and Comparative Literature. She is the author of Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction (1978) and of The Distinction of Fiction (1999).
Steven Connor is Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck College, London. He is the author of books on Dickens, Beckett, Joyce, and the postwar novel, as well as Postmodernist Culture (1989) and Cultural Value (1992). His Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism appeared in 2000. He has a continuing interest in auditory culture and is currently writing a cultural phenomenology of the skin.
Monika Fludernik is Professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg in Germany. She is the author of The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction: The Linguistic Representation of Speech and Consciousness (1993) and Echoes and Mirrorings: Gabriel Josipovici’s Creative Oeuvre (2000). Her Towards a “Natural” Narratology (1996) was the co-winner of the Barbara and George Perkins Prize by the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. Besides narratology and linguistic approach to literature, her specialization is postcolonial issues and the eighteenth century. She is currently working on a study of narrative structure in English literature between 1250 and 1750.
Andrew Gibson is Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London. His books include Reading Narrative Discourse: Studies in the Novel from Cervantes to Becket (1990), Towards a Postmodern Theory of Narrative (1996), and Postmodernity, Ethics, and the Novel (1999). He is founder and organizer of the London University Seminar for Research into Joyce’s Ulysses and is currently completing Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’: History, Politics, Aesthetics. He is also working on a book on Badiou, Beckett and postmodernity. [End Page 793]
Manfred Jahn teaches English Literature at the University of Cologne in Germany. He has published articles in Journal of Pragmatics, Poetics Today, Style, and in Narratolgies, edited by David Herman (1999). His research interests include narratology, focalization theory, artificial intelligence, cognition and literature, unreliability, and constructivism.
Howard I. Kushner is Nat C. Robertson Professor of Science and Society at Emory University, where he teaches in the Rollins School of Public Health and in the biology and history departments. His recent books include A Cursing Brain? The Histories of Tourette Syndrome (1999) and American Suicide: A Psychocultural Exploration (1991).
James Q. Miller, M.D., is Alumni Professor of Neurology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. His professional activities have included teaching, writing, research, medical administration, and the care of patients with neurological disorders. Many of these are adults or children with epilepsy or Tourette Syndrome.
John M. Picker is Assistant Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University. The essay included here is taken from chapters in his forthcoming book entitled Hearing Things: Sound in the Victorian Imagination.
Jonathan Rée teaches history and philosophy at Middlesex University in London. His books include Philosophical Tales (1987); his essay on “Funny Voices” appeared in New Literary History, 21 (1990).
Brian Richardson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Unlikely Stories: Causality and the Nature of Modern Narrative (1997), guest editor of a special issue of Style entitled “Concepts of Narrative,” and has written on a number of topics in narrative and dramatic theory. His articles on second-person narration and postmodern narrators have recently appeared in Genre, Style, and Narrative.
Ronald Schleifer is George Lynn Cross Research Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at...
