Notes on Contributors
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Logan D. Browning is the editor of SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 and a lecturer in the department of English at Rice University.
Scott Burnham is Professor of Music at Princeton University where he teaches courses on the theory and aesthetics of Western art music.
Michael Carson's poems have appeared in The Southern Review, The Formalist, and The New Virginia Review. He has a collection of poems forthcoming from the Louisiana State University Press.
Tracy Daugherty is the author of four novels, three short story collections, and a book of personal essays. His biography of Donald Barthelme, Hiding Man, has just been published by St. Martin's Press.
Tristan Davies teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. His most recent collection of stories is Cake (2003) from the Johns Hopkins University Press.
Jeff Dolven teaches Renaissance literature at Princeton University. His poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, the TLS, and elsewhere.
B. K. Fischer is the author of Museum Mediations: Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry (Routledge, 2006). Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Boston Review, Ekphrasis, Southwest Review, and other journals. She teaches at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center and the Neuberger Museum of Art.
Kenneth Gross teaches English at the University of Rochester. He is the author of The Dream of the Moving Statue (reprinted in 2006) and Shylock Is Shakespeare (2006) and is presently at work on a book about the aesthetics and poetics of puppet theater.
Jefferson Hunter teaches modern British literature and film at Smith College. He has recently completed a study tentatively titled English Filming, English Writing.
X. J. Kennedy's In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems was named a 2008 Notable Book by the American Library Association.
J. Hillis Miller is UCI Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California at Irvine. His most recent book is Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts [End Page 315] in Henry James (2005). His For Derrida, essays on Derrida's late work, will be published in 2009 by Fordham University Press. His essay in this issue is drawn from The Medium is the Maker: Browning, Freud, Derrida, and the New Telepathic Ecotechnologies. He is presently at work on a book entitled The Conflagration of Community: Fiction before and After Auschwitz.
Terrance Millet writes fiction and poetry in Corvallis, Oregon, where he also teaches creative writing. His work has appeared in The New Quarterly, Descant, Canadian Literature, and elsewhere.
Graham Nickson was born and educated in England and has lived in the United States since 1976. He is a Prix de Rome winner and a Harkness Fellow, and his work is included in the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Fogg Art Museum, and the Neuberger Museum, among many other private and public collections. He is director of the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture. For nearly three decades his art has explored an ambiguous world of interiors and broad beaches populated by introspective figures, in canvases and monumental charcoal drawings informed equally by everyday experience, obedience to ideal geometric relationships, and a sense of the uncanny. The photographs of Graham Nickson's drawings in this issue are by James Dee.
Walker Percy, after deciding to leave the medical profession to become a writer after a bout of tuberculosis in the early 1940s, won the National Book Award in Fiction for his first published novel, The Moviegoer (1961), before going on to publish five other novels and numerous essays on philosophy, semiotics, religion, and culture before his death in 1990.
David R. Slavitt's translation of Boethius's The Consolations of Philosophy appeared last year from Harvard University Press. His book about movies, George Sanders, Zsa Zsa, and Me, will come out next year from Northwestern University Press.
Dave Smith is the Elliott Coleman Professor of Poetry in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. His latest collection of poetry is Little Boats, Unsalvaged (LSU Press, 2005) and his latest collection of essays is Hunting Men: Reflections on a Life in American Poetry.
Claire Vaye Watkins is a Nevadan, a student in the...
