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  • Contributors

T. J. Clark is George C. and Helen N. Pardee Chair Emeritus at the University of California–Berkeley. His latest books are Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica, Por Uma Esquerda Sem Futuro, and, with Anne M. Wagner, Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life, all published in 2013.

Antoine Compagnon is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the Collège de France, Paris, and Columbia University, New York. He is the author of many books, including Proust Between 2 Centuries (1992), Five Paradoxes of Modernity (1994), and Literature, Theory, and Common Sense (2004).

Steven Connor is Grace 2 Professor of English in the University of Cambridge. He has published books on Dickens, Beckett, Joyce, and postmodernism, as well as on topics such as ventriloquism, skin, flies, air, sport, and magical objects. His most recent books are Beyond Words: Sobbing, Humming and Other Vocalizations (2014) and Beckett, Modernism and the Material Imagination (2014).

N. Katherine Hayles is Professor of Literature at Duke University. She teaches and writes on the relations of science, technology, and literature in the 20th and 21st centuries. Her most recent book is How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis (2012). She is currently at work on a book project entitled Cognition Everywhere: The Rise of the Cognitive Nonconscious.

David Scott teaches at Columbia University, where he is Professor of Anthropology. He is the author of a number of books, most recently, Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice (2014), and the editor of the journal Small Axe.

A poet, critic, and translator, Susan Stewart is the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University, where she also directs the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. Her most recent books are the poetry collections Columbarium (2003) and Red Rover (2008) and the prose study The Poet’s Freedom: A Notebook on Making (2011).

Zhang Longxi is Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation at the City University of Hong Kong. He has published extensively in both English and Chinese on East-West cross-cultural studies and world literature. His books in English include The Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West (1992); Mighty Opposites: From Dichotomies to Differences in the Comparative Study of China (1998); Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West (2005); Unexpected Affinities: Reading across Cultures (2007); and From Comparison to World Literature (forthcoming 2015). [End Page 299]

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