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  • Contributors

Ingo Berensmeyer is a researcher and lecturer in English literary, cultural, and media studies at the University of Siegen, Germany. He is the author of John Banville: Fictions of Order (2000) and is currently working on a book about literary culture in seventeenth-century England between late humanism and neoclassicism.

Adriana Craciun teaches English literature at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of Fatal Women of Romanticism (2003), the editor of the Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman (2002) and Zofloya (1997), and the co-editor of Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution (2001). She is currently completing a book, Citizens of the World: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, and beginning a new one on romantic Satanism and women writers.

Ulla Haselstein is Professor of American Literature at the Universität München. She is the author of Entziffernde Hermenutik: Studien zum Begriff der Lektüre in der psychoanalytischen Theorie des Unbewußten (1991) and Die Gabe der Zivilisation: Kultureller Austausch und literarische Textpraxis in Amerika, 1681–1861 (2000), and a co-editor of Iconographies of Power: The Politics and Poetics of Visual Representation (2003). She is currently completing a book on literary portraiture.

Sheldon H. Lu is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. He is author of From Historicity to Fictionality: The Chinese Poetics of Narrative (1994) and China, Transnational Visuality, Global Postmodernity (2001), editor of Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender (1997), and co-editor of Chinese-Language Film: Historiography, Poetics, Politics (forthcoming 2004).

Karla Mallette received her Ph.D. from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. She has published on the literary and cultural history of the Kingdom of Sicily during the years of Norman and Hohenstaufen rule, on literary and cultural communications between Muslims and Christians during the Middle Ages, and on Orientalist philology and modern European memory of Muslim-Christian cohabitation. She has taught at Stanford University and is currently Assistant Professor of Civilization Studies at the American University of Beirut.

David Vaughn Mason is Director of Theatre at Georgia College & State University, where he teaches theatre history, dramatic literature, and stage directing. He has recently published other work on religious theatre in northern India, where he conducted research as a Fulbright-Hays Fellow. He is currently working on a study of “devotional theatre,” as it appears in India and elsewhere. [End Page 807]

Hollis Robbins is a Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton University, where she received her Ph.D. in 2003. She is co-editor of In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on The Bondwoman’s Narrative (2003) and the author of Flushing Away Sentiment: Water Politics in Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country (2000). She is completing a book entitled Stimulating Narratives: Literature in a Bureaucratic Age.

Michael Tratner is Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College, where he teaches courses in modernism, postcolonial literature, and film. He is the author of Modernism and Mass Politics: Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Yeats (1995) and Deficits and Desires: Economics and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Literature (2001).

Donald R. Wehrs is Associate Professor of English at Auburn University, where he teaches comparative literature, postcolonial studies, and eighteenth-century British literature. He is author of African Feminist Fiction and Indigenous Values (2001), and has published essays on African, Maghreb, and Indian fiction in MLN, The Comparatist, Ariel, and on British and European fiction in The Eighteenth Century, SEL, ELH, and Comparative Literature Studies. [End Page 808]

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