Contributors
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Derek Attridge teaches in the English Department of the University of York, UK. Among his books are Peculiar Language: Literature as Difference from the Renaissance to James Joyce (1988), Joyce Effects: On Language, Theory, and History (2000), The Singularity of Literature (2004), Reading and Responsibility: Deconstruction's Traces (2010), and, as coeditor, Theory after "Theory" (2011).
Michael Bristol is Greenshields Professor Emeritus of English Literature at McGill University in Montreal. He is the author of Carnival and Theatre: Plebeian Culture and the Structure of Authority in Renaissance England (1989), Shakespeare's America / America's Shakespeare (1990), and Big-Time Shakespeare (1996). His current research takes up the question of Shakespearean character in the context of moral philosophy.
Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University. She is the author of eleven monographs and has published articles and chapters on literary theory, feminist theory, queer theory, visual culture, the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, and contemporary European philosophy. Her most recent book is William Blake, Deleuzian Aesthetics, and the Digital (2011). She is currently completing a book on human extinction, entitled Extinct Theory.
Rita Felski is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Beyond Feminist Aesthetics (1989), The Gender of Modernity (1995), Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture (2000), Literature After Feminism (2003), and Uses of Literature (2011), as well as editor of Rethinking Tragedy (2008) and coeditor of Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses (forthcoming). She is currently completing a book on the hermeneutics of suspicion, tentatively entitled Schools of Suspicion: Critique and After.
David Greetham is Distinguished Professor in the PhD Program in English and the Certificate Programs in Medieval Studies and Interactive Technology and Pedagogy at the CUNY Graduate Center. His books include Textual Scholarship: An Introduction (1992), Textual Transgressions (1998), and The Pleasures of Contamination (2010), and the edited collections Scholarly Editing (1995) and The Margins of the Text (1997). He is currently working on the concept of the "unfinished" work.
Jonathan Gil Harris is Professor of English at George Washington University. His most recent books are Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare (2009) and Shakespeare and Literary Theory (2010). His new book, Marvellous Repossessions: The Tempest, Globalization, and the Waking Dream of Paradise, is forthcoming. [End Page 757]
Eric Hayot is Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel quel (2004) and The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain (2009; cowinner of the 2010 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize). This essay draws on work in a new book, On Literary Worlds, which will be published later this year.
Bruce Holsinger is Professor of English and Director of the Program in Medieval Studies at the University of Virginia. His books include Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture (2001) and The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory (2005). He is currently completing a book on liturgical culture and the literary history of premodern Britain.
Martin Jay is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California-Berkeley. Among his works are The Dialectical Imagination (l973 and l996), Marxism and Totality (l984), Adorno (l984), Permanent Exiles (l985), FindeSiècle Socialism (l989), Force Fields (l993), Downcast Eyes (l993), Cultural Semantics (l998), Refractions of Violence (2003), Songs of Experience (2004), The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying In Politics (2010), and Essays from the Edge (2011).
Michael Levenson is William B. Christian Professor of English at the University of Virginia and author of A Genealogy of Modernism (1984), Modernism and the Fate of Individuality (1990), The Spectacle of Intimacy, coauthor Karen Chase (2000), and Modernism (2011). He is also the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Modernism (2000, 2nd edition, 2011). [End Page 758]
