Contributors
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Thomas O. Beebee received his BA from Dartmouth College and both his MA and PhD from the University of Michigan. He taught German at Bowdoin College from 1984 to 1986, when he joined the faculty at Penn State. He became associate professor of comparative literature and German in 1991, professor in 2000, and distinguished professor in 2008. His fields of specialization in research and graduate teaching are: European literatures of the early modern period; criticism and theory; epistolarity; translation studies; millennial studies; and law and literature. His publications include the books Clarissa on the Continent, The Ideology of Genre, Epistolary Fiction in Europe, Geographies of Nation in Modern European and American Fiction, and Millennial Literatures of the New World, 1492–2002. His current long-range projects include German law and literature from a systems-theory perspective, and translational fiction.
Robert Doran is assistant professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Rochester, where he teaches courses on nineteenth-century literature and culture, film, and continental philosophy. He is the editor of The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957-2007, by Hayden White and Mimesis and Theory: Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005, by René Girard. He has also edited a special issue of the journal SubStance entitled Cultural Theory after 9/11: Terror, Religion, Media. His current book project is "The Sublime: Aesthetics as Cultural Criticism from Longinus to Nietzsche." In 2000, he published an article in CLS entitled "Nietzsche: Utility, Aesthetics, History," winner of the American Comparative Literature Association Aldrige Prize.
Caryl Emerson is A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University, where she chairs the Slavic Department with a coappointment in Comparative Literature. She is a translator and interpreter of the works of Mikhail Bakhtin and has published widely on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Russian approaches to the humanities, and Russian opera and vocal music. Current research interests include adaptations of the Russian classics for the Stalinist stage, with an emphasis on the plays and dramatic criticism of the rediscovered Russian modernist Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky. [End Page 257]
John Frow is professor of English language and literature at the University of Melbourne and was previously the Regius Professor of rhetoric and English literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has also taught at Murdoch University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Queensland, and he has held visiting fellowships at the University of Michigan, Wesleyan University, the University of Chicago, and New York University. His books include Marxism and Literary History, Cultural Studies and Cultural Value, Time and Commodity Culture, and Genre. With Tony Bennett he edited the Sage Handbook of Cultural Analysis. He is currently working on a project on fictional character and historical forms of personhood, and on another on regimes of value.
John Holmes is a lecturer in English at the University of Reading. He is the author of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Late Victorian Sonnet Sequence: Sexuality, Belief and the Self, Darwin's Bards: British and American Poetry in the Age of Evolution, and various articles on Renaissance and Victorian literature. He was the treasurer of the British Society for Literature and Science from 2006 to 2009 and is currently editing a collection of essays on science in twentieth-century poetry. He is just beginning a new project on modern epic in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Ipek Kismet is working toward her PhD in comparative literature with a minor in social thought at Penn State. Her dissertation is entitled "Rampant Modernism and Its Cityscapes: Robert Musil's Vienna, Alfred Döblin's Berlin, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar's Istanbul." Kismet holds a BA in foreign languages and literatures from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, and an MA in English from Boston College. Her interests include transnational modernisms and modernities with an emphasis on Europe and Turkey, urban sociology, and theories of space.
John Patrick Leary received his PhD in comparative literature in 2009 from New York University. He is currently assistant professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where he teaches U.S. and Latin American literature and culture.
Francesco Loriggio is professor emeritus at Carleton...
