Contributors
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Jonathan Flatley is Associate Professor in the English Department at Wayne State University and the author of Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism (2008). He was editor of Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts from 2007–2012.
Jane Gallop is the author of nine books, including Around 1981: Academic Feminist Literary Theory (1992) and Anecdotal Theory (2002). Her most recent book is The Deaths of the Author: Reading and Writing in Time (2011). She coordinates the program in Literature and Cultural Theory in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
Ellis Hanson is Professor of English at Cornell University and the author of Decadence and Catholicism (1998) and the editor of Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film (1999). This article is part of a larger project titled Exquisite Pain on suffering and style in aestheticism.
Clare Hemmings is Professor of Feminist Theory and works at the Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. Her publications include Bisexual Spaces (2002) and Why Stories Matter (2011), and she is a member of the Feminist Review editorial collective
Carl Plantinga is Professor of Film and Media at Calvin College. His latest books are Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator’s Experience (2009) and, as coeditor, The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film (2009). He is current president of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image.
John Rhym is a PhD student in the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh. His research currently examines the relationship between film theory (spectatorship, ontology, and time) and philosophy (phenomenology and philosophy of mind).
René Rosfort is a theologian and currently postdoctoral fellow at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is coauthor (with Giovanni Stanghellini) of Emotions and Personhood: Exploring Fragility, Making Sense of Vulgarity (forthcoming, 2013). [End Page 583]
Richard Shusterman is Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities at Florida Atlantic University and director of its Center for Body, Mind, and Culture. He is author of Pragmatist Aesthetics (1992; 2nd ed., 2000), and, more recently, Body Consciousness (2008) and Thinking through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics (2012).
Giovanni Stanghellini is a psychiatrist and professor of Dynamic Psychology and Psychopathology at the University of Chieti, Italy, and coauthor (with René Rosfort) of Emotions and Personhood: Exploring Fragility, Making Sense of Vulgarity (forthcoming, 2013).
Lars Svendsen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bergen, Norway. Among his publications are A Philosophy of Boredom (2005), Fashion: A Philosophy (2006), A Philosophy of Fear (2008), Work (2008), and A Philosophy of Evil (2010). His next book, A Philosophy of Freedom, is forthcoming. [End Page 584]
