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  • Notes on Contributors

Sarah R. Cohen is Associate Professor of Art History at the State University of New York at Albany. Her book, The Artful Body: Picturing and Performing Aristocracy in the Ancien Regime, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

Félix Guattari, a philosopher and psychoanalyst, is best known for the pathbreaking works he wrote in collaboration with Gilles Deleuze (Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaus).

Peter Hallward teaches at the University of London; his work has appeared in Radical Philosophy, among other journals.

Yoon Sun Lee is Assistant Professor of English at Wellesley College. She is currently completing a book entitled Counter-Revolutionary Fictions: Burke, Scott, Carlyle, and is beginning a new project on Asian American literature.

Clare A. Lees is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon; her Tradition and Belief: Religious Writing in Late Anglo-Saxon England will be published in 1999 by the University of Minnesota Press.

Gillian R. Overing is Professor of English at Wake Forest University. Her most recent book is Landscape of Desire: Partial Stories of the Medieval Scandinavian World (University of Minnesota Press, 1994) (with Marijane Osborn). The present essay is part of a current collaborative project, The Making of Difference: Women and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England.

György Lukács (1885–1971), one of the great literary theorists and Marxist thinkers of this century, was the author of (among other works) The Historical Novel and History and Class Consciousness.

Alan Johnson specializes in post-colonial studies, and is now teaching in Wharton, TX.

Tyrus Miller is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature, English, and Film Studies at Yale University. His book, Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars appeared with the University of California Press in 1999. He is currently working on a book about the Frankfurt School and problems of authenticity in aesthetics and everyday life.

Christopher Norris is Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at the University of Cardiff, Wales. He has written many books on critical theory, deconstruction, and (more recently) on issues in the philosophy of science, among them Resources of Realism, New Idols of the Cave, and Against Relativism, all published in 1997. At present he is completing a volume on philosophical problems in the interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Rita Keresztesi Treat is a Ph.D. Candidate in Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Presently, she is adjunct faculty in the American Studies Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. She is writing her dissertation on American modernisms, “Strangers at Home.”

Irene Tucker is an assistant professor of English at Duke University. She is completing a project on liberalism, nationalism and the late nineteenth-century novel entitled A Probable State: The Novel, the Contract and the Jews.

Astrid Vicas teaches philosophy at Saint Leo College in Saint Leo, Florida.

Mohamed Zayani teaches in the English Department at the University of Bahrain in Sahkir.

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