Contributors
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Carolyn Abbate teaches at Harvard, where she is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor in the Department of Music. With Roger Parker, she is coauthor of A History of Opera: The Last 400 Years (2015). Her current research centers on mischievous sound technologies and acoustic artifacts from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and their place in histories of hearing and mishearing.
Nicholas Carr is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Amsterdam. He received his PhD in 2013 from the University of Cambridge, where his dissertation examined the relationship between Romanticism and modernism. His research interests include historiography, narrative, and dialectical approaches to form and genre.
Christopher Catanese received an MA from the English Department at Duke University in 2013. He is currently working as a writer and teacher in Durham, NC.
Frances Guerin teaches in the School of Arts, University of Kent. Her books include A Culture of Light: Cinema and Technology in 1920s Germany (2005); The Image and the Witness (2007); Through Amateur Eyes: Film and Photography in Nazi Germany (2011); On Not Looking, (2015); and The Truth is Always Grey: A History of Modernism (in press).
Saikat Majumdar is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Ashoka University. He is the author of three books, most recently, the novel, The Firebird, one of The Telegraph’s Best Books of 2015 and forthcoming in the US as Play House in 2017, along with a monograph, Prose of the World (2013) and an earlier novel, Silverfish (2007).
Ulf Schulenberg is Visiting Professor of American Studies at the Friedrich-Alexander University. He is the author of Zwischen Realismus und Avantgarde: Drei Paradigmen für die Aporien des Entweder-Oder (2000); Lovers and Knowers: Moments of the American Cultural Left (2007); and Romanticism and Pragmatism: Richard Rorty and the Idea of a Poeticized Culture (2015), as well as the coeditor of Americanization-Globalization-Education (2003) and American Rock Journalism (forthcoming). He has published widely in the fields of literary and cultural theory, American and European intellectual history, and American Studies. His current book project discusses pragmatism and Marxism as forms of postmetaphysical thought. [End Page 193]
Herbert F. Tucker is the John C. Coleman Professor of English at the University of Virginia. His books include Browning’s Beginnings (1980), Tennyson and the Doom of Romanticism (1988), and Epic: Britain’s Heroic Muse 1790–1910 (2013). He has also edited several critical and teaching anthologies and published over a hundred essays and reviews. Tucker’s interactive scansion tutorial For Better for Verse is freely available at prosody.lib.virginia.edu/. He has served as an associate editor for two decades now at New Literary History, though this issue contains his first authorial contribution in two decades.
Aarthi Vadde is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914–2016 (2016). Recent and forthcoming articles appear in Modernism/Modernity, Public Books, and Comparative Literature. Her current projects include a coedited collection on the critic as amateur and a book on contemporary literature’s intersection with digital media. [End Page 194]
