Contributors
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Thomas O. Beebee, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature and German at Penn State University, is the editor-in-chief of Comparative Literature Studies. His most recent books include Millennial Literatures of the Americas, 1492-2002 (2008), Nation and Region in Modern European and American Fiction (2008), Conjunctions and Disjunctions of German Law and Literature (2011), and Transmesis: Inside Translation's Black Box (2012). He is currently editing a volume of essays on German literature as world literature.
Marcel Cornis-Pope is professor of English and media studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. His publications include Anatomy of the White Whale: A Poetics of the American Symbolic Romance (1982), Hermeneutic Desire and Critical Rewriting: Narrative Interpretation in the Wake of Poststructuralism (1992), The Unfinished Battles: Romanian Postmodernism before and after 1989 (1996), and Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting in the Cold War Era and After (2001). He has also published numerous articles on contemporary fiction, narrative studies, and critical theory in journals and collective volumes. In 2010, he completed with John Neubauer the editing of a four-volume History of the Literary Cultures of East Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Century, which explores East Central European literatures from a comparative-intercultural perspective. He is currently putting together an international collection of essays on literature and the new media, to be published in 2013 by John Benjamins Press.
Éamonn Dunne received his PhD in English at University College Dublin in 2008 and is a teacher of English at Coláiste Chraobh Abhann school in Kilcoole, County Wicklow, Ireland. He is the author of J. Hillis Miller and the Possibilities of Reading: Literature After Deconstruction (2010) and has research interests in pedagogy, popular culture, queer theory, and narratology. He is currently revising a second monograph entitled "Reading Theory Now" and cowriting a third book, "The Pervert's Guide to Reading," with Michael O'Rourke.
Christian J. Emden is professor of German intellectual history and political thought at Rice University. His recent book publications include Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of History (2008), Walter Benjamins Archäologie der Moderne: Kulturwissenschaft um 1930 (2006), and Nietzsche on [End Page 379] Language, Consciousness, and the Body (2005). Emden is currently working on two book-length projects: "Carl Schmitt and the Modern State, 1912-933," and "Violence and the State: Political Realism in Max Weber, Norbert Elias, and Hannah Arendt."
John Burt Foster Jr. holds a PhD in comparative literature from Yale and is University Professor of English and Cultural Studies at George Mason University. A former editor of The Comparatist and of Recherche littéraire / Literary Research, the annual journal of the International Comparative Literature Association, he is currently the ICLA's American secretary. He has published widely on comparative topics, most notably with books on Nietzsche and modern fiction and on Nabokov's art of memory in cross-cultural context. He has also edited two collections on general cultural issues. Just finished is a book titled "Transnational Tolstoy: Between the West and the World," which addresses the shift in that author's cultural horizons from Western to world literature.
Katharina Hall is associate professor of German studies at Swansea University, Wales. She has published widely on the work of Günter Grass (her monograph Günter Grass's "Danzig Quintet" was published in 2007), as well as on contemporary German writers such as Esther Dischereit, Bernhard Schlink, and W. G. Sebald. Her current research project focuses on the representation of National Socialism and its legacies in transnational crime fiction since 1945. She is a founder member of the research group Modern European Ideologies, Conflict and Memory and a research associate of the Crime Narratives in Context network at Cardiff University. She also runs the international crime fiction blog "Mrs. Peabody Investigates."
Justin Halverson is an ABD PhD candidate in comparative literature and an adjunct lecturer in Spanish at Penn State University. His research interests include twentieth-century Latin American and U.S. literature, ecocriticism, philosophy, and film. His dissertation explores literary representations of desert landscapes and the characters who inhabit or travel through them.
Marlé Hammond is lecturer in Arabic popular literature and culture at the School of...
