Contributors

137 Vol. 1:2 Contributors Emily Apter is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at New York University , and has taught at UCLA, Cornell University, UC-Davis, U. Penn and Williams College. Her specializations include French critical theory, the history and theory of comparative literature, the problem of “Francophonie,” translation studies, French feminism, and 19th - and 20th -century French literature. Apter is author of The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature (Princeton UP, 2005), Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects (U Chicago P, 1999), Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France (Cornell UP, 1990), and co-editor of two other volumes. Her work has appeared in Critical Inquiry, American Literary History, The Boston Review, Public Culture, and PMLA, among many others. She also edits the book series Translation/Transnation for Princeton University Press. Walter Cohen is Vice Provost and Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University, where he also received the Clark Distinguished Teaching Award. His research interests include the history of European literature; the Renaissance (especially Shakespeare); and Marxist theory. Cohen is the author of Drama of a Nation: Public Theater in Renaissance England and Spain (Cornell UP, 1985) and editor (with Stephen Greenblatt, Jean Howard, and Katherine Maus) of The Norton Shakespeare (Norton, 1997), as well as numerous journal articles. Grant Farred is Associate Professor in The Program in Literature at Duke University . He has taught at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Williams College. Farred is the author of Phantom Calls: Race and the Globalization of the NBA (Prickly Paradigm, 2006), What’s My Name? Black Vernacular Intellectuals (U of Minnesota P, 2003) and Midfielder’s Moment: Coloured Literature and Culture in Contemporary South Africa (Westview P, 1999), and the editor of Rethinking C.L.R James (Blackwell, 1996). He is also the general editor of The South Atlantic Quarterly. Margaret Higonnet is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut. Her specializations include 19th -century British literature (women poets, Hardy), 20th -century British literature (World War I), women’s writing and feminist literary theory, children’s literature, and Literary /Critical Theory (Romantic). Higonnet is the author of Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War (Northeastern UP, 2001) and editor of 138 Vol 1:2 The Global South Lines of Fire: Women Writers of World War I (Penguin, 1999). She is also former President of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). Alfred J. López is Associate Professor of English at Purdue University. He is the author of José Martí and the Future of Cuban Nationalism (UP of Florida, 2006) and Posts and Pasts: A Theory of Postcolonialism (SUNY P, 2001), and editor of Postcolonial Whiteness: A Critical Reader on Race and Empire (SUNY P, 2005). López is also founding editor of The Global South. His current projects include a trade biography of José Martí, and a book project tentatively entitled The (Post)global South. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek’s areas of scholarship are in comparative cultural studies, including comparative media and communication studies, comparative literature, postcolonial and ethnic minority studies, film and literature, audience studies, English, French, German, Central European, US-American , and Canadian cultures and literatures, history, bibliographies, new media and knowledge management, and editing. Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta 1984–2000 and at the University of HalleWittenberg 2002–, he resides in Boston and teaches in Germany. Tötösy is founding editor of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, and series editor of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies, both published by Purdue University Press. Tötösy’s newest project is a multi-university research project on interculturalism. Jan M. Ziolkowski is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Director of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C. His recent books have dealt with medieval texts closely related to tales in the “classic” collections of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm and others; musical notation of classical Latin poetry in the early Middle Ages; and the reception of Virgil from his lifetime to 1500 C.E. He has also edited and/or...