Contributors
- Contributors
Amar Acheraïou has published several articles on Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Kateb Yacine, and Albert Camus. He is the author of Rethinking Postcolonialism: Colonialist Discourse in Modern Literatures and the Legacy of Classical Writers (Palgrave Macmillan 2008) and editor of Joseph Conrad and the Orient (East European Monographs / Columbia UP, forthcoming).
Katherine Isobel Baxter is research assistant professor in Cross-Cultural Studies in English at the University of Hong Kong. She is a contributing editor and vvolume editor for the Cambridge Edition of The Works of Joseph Conrad, and coeditor with Richard Hand of Joseph Conrad and the Performing Arts (Ashgate). In 2004 she was awarded the Bruce Harkness Young Conrad Scholar Award by the Joseph Conrad Society of America, and in 2007 she coordinated the year long 150th anniversary celebrations of Conrad's birth.
John Crompton has taught English language and literature, drama, education, English as a second language and study methods, in schools, colleges, universities and adult education. His master's was on drama-in-education and his doctorate on the novels of Elizabeth Taylor (1912–75). He currently teaches adult day-schools, writes, and is Hon. Publicity Officer of the Tennyson Committee of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK).
Michael John Disanto, assistant professor at Algoma University College, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, edited the Criticism of Thomas Carlyle, and, with Brian Crick, coedited Literary Criticism of Matthew Arnold. The third in the series, Criticism of D. H. Lawrence, is forthcoming. His book Under Conrad's Eyes: The Novel as Criticism, on Conrad's novels as critical responses to nineteenth-century thinkers including Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Feodor Dostoevsky, George Eliot, and Friedrich Nietzsche, is forthcoming from McGill-Queen's UP. [End Page 325]
Stephen Donovan is Senior Lecturer in English at Uppsala University, Sweden. His publications include Joseph Conrad and Popular Culture (Palgrave, 2005), and he has edited Under Western Eyes (2007) for Penguin. He is the creator of Conrad First (www.conradfirst.net), an online database of Conrad's work as originally serialized.
Linda Dryden is a Professor of English Literature at Edinburg Napier University, Edinburgh. She has published various articles on Conrad and is the author of Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance (Macmillan, 2000) and of The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles: Stevenson, Wilde and Wells (Palgrave, 2003). A coeditor of the Journal of Stevenson Studies, Dryden is coeditor of a volume of essays titled Stevenson and Conrad: Writers of Transition, (2009) with Texas Tech UP.
Robert Hampson is Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway College, University of London. He is the author of Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity (Macmillan, 1993) and Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad's Malay Fiction (Palgrave, 2000), and a coeditor of Conrad and Theory (Rodopi, 1998). A Contributing Editor to the Cambridge Edition of The Works of Joseph Conrad, he has also edited Lord Jim (1986), Victory (1989), and Heart of Darkness (1995) for Penguin, as well as Nostromo (2001) for Wordsworth Classics. From 1989 to 1996 he was editor of The Conradian and currently sits on the editorial board of Conradiana.
Jeremy Hawthorn is Professor of Modern British Literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. His book Sexuality and the Erotic in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad—his third monograph on the author—was published by Continuum in 2007. With Jakob Lothe and James Phelan he edited Joseph Conrad: Voice, Sequence, History, Genre (Ohio State UP, 2008). He has edited Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes and The Shadow-Line for Oxford World's Classics (both 2003).
Josiane Paccaud-Huguet is Professor of Modern English Literature at Université Lumière-Lyon 2. She has published extensively on modernist authors (Conrad, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Malcolm Lowry, both in France and abroad) and in psychoanalytical journals. Her latest publications include Joseph Conrad: l'écrivain et l'étrangeté de la langue (Paris, éditions Minard, 2006) and "Psychoanalysis after Freud" in Literary Theory and Criticism, An Oxford Guide (edited by Patricia Waugh, Oxford UP, 2006). She has edited a volume on Conrad's [End Page 326] critical reception Conrad in France (Columbia UP, Eastern European Studies Monographs). She is...
