Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
lyell asher is Assistant Professor of English at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. His most recent publications include an essay on St. Augustine in The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and a forthcoming article in Christianity and Literature on the fifteenth-century alliterative poem “Death and Liffe.”
moustafa bayoumi is Assistant Professor of English at Brooklyn College, CUNY. He co-edited The Edward Said Reader (2000) and is currently completing a book on the cultural impact of Muslim migrations to the West, entitled Migrating Islam: Religion, Colonialism, Modernity.
jill campbell teaches in the Department of English at Yale University. She is the author of Natural Masques: Gender and Identity in Fielding’s Plays and Novels, and has recently published “Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the ‘Glass Revers’d’ of Female Old Age” in Defects: Engendering the Modern Body. She is completing a book on satiric portraits and self-representations of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lord Hervey and Alexander Pope.
jenine abboushi dallal is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies at New York University. She is completing a book, The Beauty of Imperialism, a study of the development of central concepts of the aesthetic within imperial contexts and between contesting imperialisms in nineteenth-century America, France, and the Near East. She is currently working on a study of the forms, languages, and politics of global culture in the Middle East and North Africa.
tared gardner teaches American literature and film at the Ohio State University in Columbus. His book Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature was published in 1998; he is currently working on a study of myths of origins in Hollywood in the 1920s and 1930s.
margaret homans teaches English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Yale. Her most recent book is Royal Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture, 1837–1876 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998). [End Page 469]
vivian liska is Professor of German Literature at the University of Antwerp (UIA), Belgium, where she teaches German literature, feminist theory, and rhetoric. Her publications include Die Nacht der Hymnen. Paul Celans Gedichte 1938–1944 (Bern: Lang, 1993), Die Dichterin und das schelmische Erhabene. Else Lasker-Schulers Die Nachte Tino von Bagdads (Tübingen: Francke, 1997), and articles on Nietzsche, Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Paul de Man, Paul Celan, Sarah Kofman, Uwe Johnson, Martin Walser, holocaust literature, feminist theory, and modernism. She currently directs the ICLA project on Literary Modernism in the European Languages.
celia marshik teaches in the Writing and Critical Thinking program at Stanford University. She is working on a study of the relationships among British Modernism, government censorship, and the social purity movement. Her recent article on Virginia Woolf won the 1999 Margaret Church Memorial Award for the best essay published in Modern Fiction Studies.
nancy k. miller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her most recent book is Bequest and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent’s Death.
lhomas j. otten is Associate Professor of English at Yale University. His essay in this issue is from a recently completed book manuscript on Henry James and materialism.
mary poovey is Professor of English and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at New York University. She is the author of four books and numerous articles on nineteenth-century literature and history, feminist theory, and literary theory. Her most recent book, A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society, won the ACLS Gottschalk Prize.
geoffrey winthrop - young is Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of British Columbia. In 1999–2000, he was Visiting Fellow at the Institute for German Cultural Studies at Cornell University. He has published on literature and technology, science fiction, and media theory, and recently co-translated and introduced (with Michael Wutz) Friedrich Kittler’s Gramophone Film Typewriter for Stanford University Press. [End Page 470]
