Contributors
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Baidik Bhattacharya is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Delhi. He is the author of Postcolonial Writing in the Era of World Literature: Texts, Territories, Globalizations (forthcoming, 2018) and coeditor of The Postcolonial Gramsci (2012). His essays have appeared in Critical Inquiry, boundary 2, Novel, Interventions, and Postcolonial Studies.
Joshua Foa Dienstag is Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of California–Los Angeles. He is the author of Dancing in Chains: Narrative and Memory in Political Theory (1997), Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit (2006), and, most recently, coauthor of Cinema, Democracy, and Perfectionism (2015) He is currently working on two projects titled Cinema Pessimism and The Human Boundary.
PaulFleming is the Taylor Family Director of the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, where he is also Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature. His publications include Exemplarity and Mediocrity: The Art of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism (2008) and the translation of Peter Szondi’s Essay on the Tragic (2002).
Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek and Director of the Center for Research in Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities at the University of Cambridge. He has published on ancient literature and on Victorian culture, including Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction and the Proclamation of Modernity (2011), which won the Robert Lowry Patten Prize for 2012, and Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy (2012), which won the Runciman Prize for 2013.
Eric Hayot is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, where he directs the Center for Humanities and Information. He is the author of four books, including On Literary Worlds (2012) and The Elements of Academic Style (2014).
Nicholas Paige is Professor of French at the University of California–Berkeley and the author of Before Fiction: The Ancien Régime of the Novel (2011), which was awarded the 2013 ASECS Gottschalk prize. He is currently completing Technologies of the Novel, which maps nearly two-and-a-half centuries of French-language novels and argues that the rise and fall of literary forms should be understood as a properly technological evolution. His articles have appeared in journals such as Representations, Poétique, MLQ, PMLA, RHLF, and Poetics Today. [End Page 605]
Helen Small is Professor of English and Jonathan and Julia Aisbitt Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. Her most recent books are The Long Life (2007), winner of the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism for 2008 and The Value of the Humanities (2013). She is currently in the early stages of a book entitled The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time.
Laura Zebuhr is Assistant Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she specializes in transnational approaches to nineteenth-century American literature. She has published on Thoreau, Simone de Beauvoir, and nineteenth-century intersections of friendship and writing practices. [End Page 606]
