Contributors
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Dorothy Z. Baker (dzbaker@uh.edu) is professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Houston. She is the author of Mythic Masks in Self-Reflexive Poetry: A Study of Pan and Orpheus (University of North Carolina Press, 1986) and America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of "Magnalia Christi Americana" (Ohio State University Press, 2007) and editor of Poetics in the Poem: Critical Essays on American Self-Reflexive Poetry (Peter Lang, 1997) and The Silent and Soft Communion: The Spiritual Narratives of Sarah Pierpont Edwards and Sarah Prince Gill (University of Tennessee Press, 2005).
Elise Bartosik-Vélez (bartosie@dickinson.edu) has a Ph.D. in comparative literature and is associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Dickinson College. She is writing a book about the legacy of Christopher Columbus in British and Spanish America. Her essays about Columbus have appeared in the Colonial Latin American Review, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, and the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos.
Lou Charnon-Deutsch (ldeutsch@notes.cc.sunysb.edu) is professor of Hispanic languages and literature at Stony Brook University where she is also an affiliate of women's studies and comparative literature. She specializes in visual culture, feminist theory, and nineteenth-century European literature. Her books include: Gender and Representation: Women in Spanish Realist Fiction (John Benjamins, 1990); Narratives of Desire: Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction by Women (Penn State University Press, 1994); Fictions of the Feminine in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Press (Penn State University Press, 2000); Culture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Spain (co-edited with Jo Labanyi; Oxford University Press, 1995); The Spanish Gypsy, History of a European Obsession (Penn State University Press, 2004); and Hold That Pose: Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Press [End Page 681] (Penn State University Press, 2008). She currently serves on the editorial board of Letras Femeninas, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, La Tribuna, and Decimonónica and she is the American regional editor of the Hispanic Research Journal.
Mine Eren (meren@rmc.edu) is currently associate professor of German at Randolph-Macon College. She received a master's degree from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and a Ph.D. from Brown University. Her research interests are twentieth-century German literature and culture, particularly postwar German society and Germany's immigration history; nineteenth-century German literature; the history of film; theories of globalization and minority practices; and gender studies. She has written and presented widely on Turkish-German literature and film. Currently, she is working on a project on the cultural revolution of the 1960s and its impact on Turkish society. She has also recently served as an associate editor for The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa (Gale, 2007) and contributed a number of articles to this edition.
Tamás Juhász (tjuhasz14@hotmail.com) earned his Ph.D. at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and now teaches twentieth-century English and American literature, literary theory, and film studies at Károli Gáspár University. He also holds a part-time position at Budapest Technical University, where he teaches Hungarian film history to international students. In 1994–1995, he was a Fulbright visiting researcher at New York University and in 2003–2004, he was first a visiting scholar, then a visiting lecturer, at the University of British Columbia. During this period, his scholarship focused on Joseph Conrad. Currently, he is exploring the link between masculinity and the postcolonial condition in the works of contemporary British novelists, including Hanif Kureishi, Timothy Mo, and Kazuo Ishiguro. A parallel, long-term project of his concerns gender in Central European films. He is the author of "Conradian Contracts: Exchange and Identity in the Immigrant Imagination," which is currently under review.
Mats Karlsson (mats.karlsson@usyd.edu.au) is lecturer in Japanese studies at the University of Sydney, where he teaches courses on Japanese literature, comparative literature, Japanese cinema, and contemporary Japanese society. His publications include "Kurahara Korehito's Road to Proletarian Realism," Nichibunken Japan Review 20 (2008) and The Kumano Saga of Nakagami Kenji (Stockholm University Press, 2001) and, in the field of comparative [End Page 682] literature, "Nakagami...
