Contributors
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R. M. Berry is professor of English at Florida State University. His books include the novel Frank (2005), the fiction anthology Forms at War (2009), and the critical anthology, Fiction’s Present: Situating Contemporary Narrative Innovation (2007), coedited with Jeffrey Di Leo. His criticism has appeared in Philosophy and Literature, Symploke, and the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature.
Brian Boyd, University Distinguished Professor of English, University of Auckland, has published on art and literature from prehistory to the present, but especially on Nabokov (and also Homer, Shakespeare, Dr. Seuss, and Spiegelman), and on literature, evolution, and cognition. His work has appeared in eighteen languages and won awards on four continents. He is currently researching a biography of philosopher Karl Popper.
Jim Collins is the chair of the Film, Television, and Theatre Department at the University of Notre Dame where he also serves as a concurrent Professor of English and American Studies. He specializes in media theory, contemporary narrative, and digital culture. His most recent book is Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture (2011).
Terry Eagleton was formerly Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and is now Distinguished Visiting Professor in English at the Universities of Lancaster and Notre Dame. He is the author of over forty books, a Fellow of the British Academy, and an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.
Nancy Easterlin is Research Professor of English and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of New Orleans. She is the author of Wordsworth and the Question of “Romantic Religion” (1996) and A Biocultural Approach to Literary Theory and Interpretation (2012) as well as numerous articles on cognitive-evolutionary theory and criticism. Her guest-edited, special issue of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, “Cognition in the Classroom,” is forthcoming (spring 2014). Easterlin is a former Guggenheim Fellow (2008).
Elizabeth Fowler is the author of Literary Character (2003) and a general editor of the forthcoming Oxford Edition of the Collected Works of Edmund Spenser. An occasional architect, she writes about poetry and the built environment and teaches at the University of Virginia. Her new work is on world prayer and material culture. [End Page 683]
Michael S. Roth is president of Wesleyan University, where he also teaches in the history, film studies, and philosophy departments. His most recent books are Memory, Trauma, and History: Essays on Living with the Past (2011) and Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters, which will be published in the spring of 2014.
Helen Small is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford (Pembroke College). She is the author of The Long Life (2007) and editor of The Public Intellectual (2002). Her most recent book The Value of the Humanities (2013) explores the main arguments conventionally used to defend higher study of the humanities. Not a polemic, it subjects the arguments to close criticism with the aim of identifying the terms on which they may command assent and the points at which they may need modifying or letting go. [End Page 684]
