Contributors
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Elisabeth Cardone-Arlyck is Pittsburgh Professor of French at Vassar College. She is author of La Métaphore raconte. Pratique de Julien Gracq (1984) and of numerous articles on twentieth-century French literature. She is currently editing a collection of essays on contemporary French poets and writing a book on the interplay between verse and prose in contemporary poetry.
Hélène Cixous was one of the founders of the experimental Université de Paris 8 in 1968, and she has taught there ever since. In 1974 she created the Centre d'Etudes Féminines, the first and still the only French doctoral program in Women's Studies. She is also Distinguished Visiting Professor at Northwestern University. She has published more than thirty book-length works of fiction, several major plays and theoretical texts. Her publications in English translation include The Exile of James Joyce, Inside, The Newly Born Woman, Coming to Writing, Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, Manna, Rootprints, Stigmata, First Days of the Year and The Third Body. Reveries of the Wild Woman, The Day I Was Not There, and a collection of her plays are forthcoming.
Peter Goldman is Assistant Professor of English at Westminster College of Salt Lake City. He has published articles on Reformation literature and anthropological theory in application to literature. Currently, he is working on a book entitled “Look with thine ears”: Shakespeare and the Problem of Iconoclasm.
Jim Hannan is a graduate student in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of Chicago. His dissertation, “Local Worlds: The Place of Globalization in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction,” discusses the work of Dionne Brand, Roy Heath, Pauline Melville, V. S. Naipaul, and Caryl Phillips.
Martin Puchner is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature and co-chair of the theater Ph.D. program at Columbia University. He is the author of Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama (2002).
Paul Stevens is Professor and former head of the Department of English at Queen's University, Canada. He is the author of Imagination and the Presence of Shakespeare in “Paradise Lost” (1985) and co-editor of Discontinuities: New Essays on Renaissance Literature and Criticism (1998). He is currently at work on a new book provisionally entitled Nationalist Milton.
Ruth Stevenson is Professor of English at Union College, Schenectady, New York, where she teaches courses in Renaissance literatures, Shakespeare, and poetry. She is co-editor with Bruce McIver of Teaching with Shakespeare: Critics in the Classroom (1994) and is currently studying how Shakespeare's metaphors work within and among his plays.
John Wall recently completed a Ph.D. on the relation of language and the body in the novels of Samuel Beckett and has published articles in the area. He lives in Christchurch, New Zealand, where he works as an ESL teacher.
