Contributors
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Walter L. Adamson is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Intellectual History at Emory University, where he teaches modern European intellectual and cultural history as well as modern Italian history. His most recent book is Embattled Avant-gardes: Modernism’s Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe (2007). He is currently working on the relationship of fascism and religion in Italy.
Peter Bürger is Professor Emeritus of French Literature and Aesthetic Theory at the University of Bremen. His publications include: Prosa der Moderne (1988); The Thinking of the Master: Bataille between Hegel and Surrealism (1992; Engl. translation 2001); Das Verschwinden des Subjekts (1988); Das Altern der Moderne (2001); and Sartre: Eine Philosophie des Als-ob (2007).
Jonathan P. Eburne is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Surrealism and the Art of Crime (2008), and is currently working on a book entitled Outsider Theory.
Amy J. Elias teaches in the English Department at the University of Tennessee–Knoxville. She is the author of Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction (2002) and numerous articles and book chapters concerning contemporary literature, narrative theory, and digital media. She founded the scholarly association A.S.A.P. (The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present) and is currently completing a book about dialogics and the contemporary arts.
Elizabeth Harney is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Toronto. She is author of In Senghor’s Shadow (2004) and curator and editor of Ethiopian Passages: Contemporary Art from the Diaspora (2004) and Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art (2007), both held at the Smithsonian. Her current research addresses practices of colonial artists in postwar Europe and the eastern bloc.
Benjamin Lee is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. His essays and reviews have appeared in Criticism, American Literature, and African American Review. He is finishing a book on history and experimental poetry in postwar New York.
Bob Perelman teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published nineteen books of poems, including: Ten to One: Selected Poems (1999); Playing Bodies (2004), in collaboration with painter Francie Shaw; and Iflife (2006). His critical books are The Trouble With Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky [End Page 929] 1994) and The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History (1996). His work can be accessed on Penn Sound, http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound; his website is http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/authors/perelman. A feature on his work appears in Jacket 39, http://jacketmagazine.com/39/index.shtml.
Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory & History (CentreCATH) at the University of Leeds, England. Recent publications include Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum: Time, Space and the Archive (2007) and Digital and Other Vitualities: Renegotiating the Image (with Antony Bryant, 2010). Forthcoming are Theater of Memory: Allothanatography and Trauma in Charlotte Salomon’s Life? or Theatre? and Afteraffect/Afterimage: Trauma and Aesthetic Inscription.
Martin Puchner, Professor of English and of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, is the author of The Drama of Ideas: Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy (2010), Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes (2006; winner of the MLA’s James Russell Lowell Award), and Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama (2002). He is the general editor of the Norton Anthology of World Literature, third edition (in preparation).
John Roberts is Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton, England. He is the author of a number of books, including The Art of Interruption: Realism, Photography and the Everyday (1998) and the Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art After the Readymade (2007). His new book, The Necessity of Errors, will be published later this year.
Richard Schechner is University Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University and editor of TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies. His books include Public Domain (1969), Environmental Theater (1973), The End of Humanism (1982), Between Theater and Anthropology (1985), Performance Theory (2003), The Future of Ritual (1993...
