Notes on Contributors
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Marc Amfreville is a professor of American literature at the Sorbonne. He has written many articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors, and three essays: “Charles Brockden Brown: La part du doute” (2000); “Pierre; or, The Ambiguities: L’Ombre portée” (2003), and “Ecrits en souffrance” (2009). He edited and revised the translation of Melville’s Pierre; or, The Ambiguities (2005) and translated and edited Charles Brockden Brown’s Ormond (1799), hitherto unpublished in France. He coedited the first volume of F. S. Fitzgerald’s Complete Works (2012) and contributed the chapter “American Gothic” to the collection A Literary History of America (2009). In 2010 he conducted a series of seminars on the representation of trauma that gathered academics and psychoanalysts.
Elizabeth Dolan, PhD, is an associate professor of English at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Seeing Suffering in Women’s Literature of the Romantic Era (Ashgate, 2008), editor of volume 12 of The Collected Works of Charlotte Smith (Pickering & Chatto, 2007), and coeditor of Anna Seward’s Life of Erasmus Darwin, with Philip K. Wilson and Malcolm Dick (Brewin Books, 2010). Her most recent articles address social issues in Charlotte Smith’s children’s literature. She serves as book review editor of the Keats-Shelley Journal.
Lee Erwin is currently a Fulbright scholar lecturing in English literature at the University of Nizwa in Oman. Her work on twentieth-century and contemporary novels has appeared in journals including Novel: A Forum on Fiction, the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Research in African Literatures, and the Journal of Commonwealth Literature. [End Page 197]
William Franke is a professor of philosophy and religions at the University of Macau and a professor of comparative literature at Vanderbilt University. He is a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung and has been Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Intercultural Theology at the University of Salzburg. As a philosopher of the humanities with a negative theological vision of the origin and significance of human culture, he elaborates a theological poetics in books including Dante’s Interpretive Journey (Chicago, 1996), Poetry and Apocalypse (Stanford, 2009), Dante and the Sense of Transgression (London, 2013), and The Revelation of Imagination: From the Bible and Homer through Virgil and Augustine to Dante (Northwestern, forthcoming). His apophatic philosophy is directly expressed in On What Cannot Be Said (Notre Dame, 2007) and A Philosophy of the Unsayable (Notre Dame, 2014).
Madelaine Hron is an associate professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. She is the author of Translating Pain: Immigrant Suffering in Literature and Culture (2009) as well as various articles related to postcolonialism, trauma, and human rights issues in such journals as Research in African Literature, Peace Review, Forum in Modern Language Studies, Disability Studies Quarterly, French Literature Studies, and Slavonic and East European Review. Hron’s current book project explores the literary, cinematic, and cultural representations of Rwanda postgenocide.
Sharanya Jayawickrama is a graduate of University College London and the University of Cambridge, where she received her PhD on Sri Lankan literature in English in 2005. She has been an adjunct lecturer at the National University of Ireland, Galway and King’s College London, a lecturer at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Macau. She is currently an assistant professor at Hong Kong Shue Yan University and associate editor of the open-access journal Postcolonial Text.
Diana Lary is a professor emerita of history at the University of British Columbia and the director of the Centre of Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her current [End Page 198] research interests are Chinese migration, especially internal; Canada and Hong Kong connections; the Chinese military; the impact of warfare on Chinese society; regionalism in China, focusing on Shandong and Guangxi provinces; the Zhuang people of southern China; and color symbolism in Chinese culture. Her recent publications include Chinese Migration from Antiquity to the Present (Roman and Littlefield, 2012) and The Chinese People at War (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Harold Schweizer is a professor of English at Bucknell University. He has...
