- Notes on Contributors
Marie-Odile Bernez teaches English at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France. She is a member of the Centre Interlangues TIL Texte Image Langage based there, which studies the relationships between image and word in different languages. Originally an eighteenth-century specialist, she has published several articles on Mary Wollstonecraft and has translated into French Wollstonecraft’s works on the French Revolution. Her primary research interest is the birth of modernity in the Enlightenment period, with particular emphasis on the connections with political and scientific developments.
Kristina Booker is a doctoral candidate in the English department at Southern Methodist University. Her doctoral research focuses on the eighteenth-century British novel, and her dissertation traces how eighteenth-century literary authors use fictional servants to represent and process shifting social and economic values.
Adam Bryx, an expat from the Czech Republic via Canada, completed his dissertation, “Pirate Streams: Informatics, Transversality, Passports, and Performance in Early Modern England,” at the University of California, Irvine, in August 2012. He has co-authored, with Bryan Reynolds, “The Fugitive Theater of Romeo Castellucci: Intermedial Refractions and Fractalactic Occurrences” in Performance After Identity: The Neo-Political Subject (2013), “Go Fractalactic! A Brief Guide through Subjectivity in the Philosophy of Félix Guattari and Transversal Poetics” (Deleuze Studies 2012), “Cheers to Materialism in Literary Theory: A Diversion with David Hawkes” (Early Modern Culture 2012), and “The Masochistic Quest of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Deleuze and Guattari to Transversal Poetics with(out) Baudrillard” in Transversal Subjects: From Montaigne to Deleuze after Derrida (2009); and he co-authored, with [End Page 113] Gary Genosko, “After Informatic Striation: The Resignification of Disc Numbers in Contemporary Inuit Popular Culture” in Deleuze and Space (2005).
Hannah Crawforth is a lecturer in Early Modern Literature at King’s College London, where she is also one of the founding members of the London Shakespeare Centre. Her first book is Etymology and the Invention of English in Early Modern Literature (2013). She has also published articles in a range of journals and edited collections, and is textual editor for the Norton Shakespeare’s new edition of The Two Noble Kinsmen.
Peter DeGabriele is Assistant Professor of English at Mississippi State University. He has published work in ELH and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation and is currently working on a book manuscript entitled The Literary Theory of the Political: Sovereign and Subject in Eighteenth-Century England.
Margreta de Grazia is Emerita Sheli Z. and Burt X. Rosenberg Chair in the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of ‘Hamlet’ without Hamlet (2007) and editor with Stanley Wells of The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare (2010). Her forthcoming book, Five Shakespearean Period Pieces, and recent articles focus on various aspects of periodization, chronology, and secularization.
Arturo Desimone’s drawings are fables, narratives, and when drawing he works intuitively using symbols to tell a story. His work has been exhibited in Paris and in Krakow. His poetry and fiction in English can be read in The New Orleans Review, Acentos Review, Transnational, Counterpunch Poet’s Basement, Horror Sleaze Trash, and Big Bridge. He is working on a long fiction project. Born and raised on the island Aruba, at the moment he is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. During recent years he has led a nomadic existence of revolutionary tourism, writing and drawing the chronicles of his life while traveling between (post)revolutionary Tunisia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. [End Page 114]
Kari Nixon is a doctoral candidate in English literature at Southern Methodist University. Her current research project focuses on the way contagious disease shapes communities, especially in the wake of late-nineteenth-century germ theory.
Bryan Reynolds is Chancellor’s Professor of Drama at the University of California, Irvine. He has held visiting professorships at the University of London-Queen Mary, University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University, University of Cologne, University College Utrecht, Goethe University–Frankfurt am Main, and the University of California, San Diego; and he has taught at Deleuze Camp and The Grotowski Institute, among other academic and arts institutions. He is the Artistic Director of the Transversal Theater Company, a director of theater, a...