Contributors
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R. Howard Bloch is Sterling Professor of French at Yale University. A specialist in French medieval literature, Bloch's work spans the subjects of literature, economics, the visual arts and law. He heads the Directed Studies Program at Yale. His books include Medieval French Literature and the Law, Etymologies and Genealogies: A Literary Anthropology of the Middle Ages, The Scandal of the Fabliaux, The Anonymous Marie de France (for which he received the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize in 2004), Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love, and most recently, Weaving to Byzantium: The World's Most Famous Textile and The Norman Conquest of England and the Middle East. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an Officer in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
William Egginton is Professor and Chair of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at the Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches courses on Spanish and Latin American literature, literary theory, and the relation between literature and philosophy. He is the author of How the World Became a Stage (2003), Perversity and Ethics (2006), A Wrinkle in History (2007), The Philosopher's Desire (2007), and The Theater of Truth: The Ideology of Baroque and (Neo)baroque Aesthetics (2010). He is also co-editor with David E. Johnson of Thinking With Borges (2009), with Mike Sandbothe of The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy (2004), and translator of Lisa Block de Behar's Borges, the Passion of an Endless Quotation (2003).
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is the Albert Guérard Professor in Literature at Stanford University in the Departments of Comparative Literature and French and Italian. He is also Professeur associé at the Université de Montréal, Professeur attaché at the Collège de France, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His main areas of teaching and research are the histories of French, Spanish, and Italian literatures (especially in the Middle Ages, the eighteenth century, and the first half of the twentieth century); the history of literary criticism and of the humanities; and the history of western thought since its classical origins. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Montevideo, the Université de Montréal, the University of St. Petersburg, the University of Lisbon, and, in Germany, Universität Siegen, [End Page S180] Universität Greifswald, and Universität Marburg. His most recent books are In Praise of Athletic Beauty (Harvard Press, 2006) and Geist und Materiel—Was ist Leben? Zur Aktualität von Erwin Schrödinger (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2008); Reading for the Stimmung? About the Ontology of Literature Today (Duke University Press, 2010).
Andreas Kablitz is a professor of Romance Philology and head of the Romanisches Seminar of the Philosophische Fakultät of the Universität zu Köln. He is also the director of the Petrarca-Institute, member of the editorial board of the Romanistisches Jahrbuch and of the academic committee of the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung. In 1997 he was awarded the Leibniz-Preis of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. In 2007 he became member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina). In 2010 he was appointed Commendatore of the Ordine della Stella della Solidarietà Italiana by the President of the Italian Republic. Although his special research interest of late centers on Dante, his works cover a wide range of topics from French, Italian and English Literature, featuring Petrarch, Tasso and other authors from the Italian and French Renaissance as well as Shakespeare, Thomas Mann and Oscar Wilde. He has also been working on Aristotle, Kant and Wittgenstein.
Joachim Küpper is Professor of Comparative Literature and of Romance Literatures (French, Spanish, Italian) at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He is Dean of the Faculty of Letters at Freie Universität, as well as director of the Dahlem Humanities Center, and a member of Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences. For further information on his publications see http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we03/mitarbeiter/kuep-per/index.html.
Stephen G. Nichols is James M. Beall Professor Emeritus of French and Humanities and Research Professor at Johns Hopkins. He received the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize for Romanesque Signs...
