Notes on Contributors

Ruth Beilin, Senior Lecturer in the Resource Management and Horticulture department of the Institute of Land & Food Resources, University of Melbourne, has published numerous articles in journals and edited volumes, including, most recently, “Inside Out: Exploring the Connection between Women’s Life Stories and Landscape,” Rural Society 8 (1998). She is also a contributor to the forthcoming Oxford University Press volume From Soil Conservation to Land Husbandry.

Tim Bonyhady, Senior Fellow in the Urban and Environmental Program, Australian National University, Canberra, is the author of Images in Opposition: Australian Landscape Painting, 1801–1890 (1985) and Australian Colonial Paintings in the Australian National Gallery (1987).

John J. Bradley, Lecturer in Anthropology, Archaeology and Sociology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, has been working with the Yanyuwa people of the southwest Gulf of Carpenteria for the last twenty years. He has contributed essays to Language and Gender: A Reader (1998) and Working on Country: Indigenous Environmental Management in Australia (1999).

Tom Conley, Professor of Romance Languages at Harvard, is the author of The Self-Made Map (1996) and translator of The Capture of Speech (1997) and Culture in the Plural (1997), both by Michel de Certeau. His most recent book is a translation and study of Marc Augé, An Ethnologist in the Subway (2000).

Michael Crozier, Political Science, University of Melbourne, is the coeditor (with Peter Murphy) of The Left in Search of a Center (1996) and coauthor (with Ann Capling and Mark Considine) of Australian Politics in the Global Era (1998). He is currently completing a book for Allen & Unwin entitled Antipodean Democracy: A Political History of Australia.

Thomas Lahusen, Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Duke University, is the author of How Life Writes the Book: Real Socialism and Socialist Realism in Stalin’s Russia (1997) and coeditor (with Evgeny Dobrenko) of Socialist Realism without Shores (1997), which originated as a 1995 special issue of SAQ.

Artemis Leontis, Adjunct Associate Professor of Modern Greek, University of Michigan, is the author of Topographies of Hellenism: Mapping the Homeland (1995) and editor of Greece: A Traveler’s Literary Companion (1997).

Anders Linde-Laursen, Assistant Professor of Ethnology at Lund University, Sweden, is currently a Visiting Fellow in International Studies at the University of Richmond. The author of numerous articles, including, most recently, “Taking the National Family to the Movies: Changing Frameworks for the Formation of Danish Identity, 1930–1990,” Anthropological Quarterly 72 (1999), he also coedited (with Jan Olof Nilsson) Nordic Landscopes: Cultural Studies of Place (1995).

Robert Markley is Jackson Distinguished Chair of British Literature, West Virginia University, and editor of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. His most recent book, Dying Planet: Mars and the Anxieties of Ecology from the Canals to Terraformation, is forthcoming from Duke University Press.

Louis A. Ruprecht, JR., Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Religion and Kenan Ethics Center, Duke University, is the author of the award-winning Tragic Posture and Tragic Vision: Against the Modern Failure of Nerve (1994) and Symposia: Plato, the Erotic and Moral Value (1999).

Susan Willis is Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Literature Program at Duke University. Her books include A Primer for Daily Life (1991) and Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World (1997).

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