Contributors
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Ian Almond is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey. He has published articles on Pinter, Joyce, Meister Eckhart, and modern Indian fiction. His comparative study of Derrida and Islamic mysticism—Sufism and Deconstruction—will be published in 2004.
Lynn A. Casmier-Paz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Central Florida, where she teaches courses in critical theory, autobiography studies, and literacy theories. Her published essays and articles concern literacy and ideology, slave narratives, autobiography studies, and literary theory. She is currently completing a book entitled, ‘The White Man's Power’: Literacy Theory and Slave Narratives.
Winfried Fluck is Professor and Chair of American Culture at the J. F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin. In the United States, his essays have appeared in New Literary History, Cultural Critique, and most recently in Rethinking American History in a Global Age (2002). His books include Theorien amerikanischer Literatur (1987), Inszenierte Wirklichkeit. Der amerikansiche Realismus, 1865–1900 (1992), and Das kulturelle Imaginäre. Funktionsgeschichte des amerikanischen Romans 1790–1900 (1997). He is currently working on a history of American culture.
Helga Lénárt-Cheng is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. She is currently working on her dissertation focusing on autobiography and national identity.
Lawrence Lipking is Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University. His books include The Ordering of the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England (1970), The Life of the Poet: Beginning and Ending Poetic Careers (1981), Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition (1988), and Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author (1998). He has won many chess tournaments, including the New York Open (1966). He is currently working on a study of relations between imagination and science during the Scientific Revolution.
Gary Saul Morson is Frances Hooper Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University. He is the author of Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time (1994), which won a René Wellek Award from the American Comparative Literature Association and, most recently, of And Quiet Flows the Vodka: The Curdmudgeon's Guide to Russian Literature and Culture (published under the pseudonym Alicia Chudo). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Stanley Stewart is a Professor of English at the University of California, where he teaches courses in Renaissance literature and critical theory. Currently president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics and co-editor of The Ben Jonson Journal: Literary Contexts in the Age of Elizabeth, James, and Charles, he is the author of numerous books, essays, and reviews, including most recently, “Renaissance” Talk: Ordinary Language and the Mystique of Critical Problems (1997). He is now writing a book entitled Philosophy's Shakespeare.
Brian Stock teaches history and literature at the University of Toronto. He has recently held the International Chair at the Collège de France and the Sather Professorship of Classical Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his publications are Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation (1996) and After Augustine: The Meditative Reader and the Text (2001).
Xiaoying Wang teaches comparative literature at the University of Hong Kong. She has published on literary theory and on Chinese culture and politics. Her current work focuses on the cultural dimensions of China's market reforms.
