Analyzing World Fiction: New Horizons in Narrative Theory

Contributor Notes

arturo j. aldama is Associate Professor in and the associate Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies CU-Boulder. He recently served as director of the Center for Studies in Ethnicity and Race in the Americas (CSERA). He has published and edited numerous books, including Disrupting Savagism: Intersecting Chicana/o (2002), Mexican Immigrant and Native American Struggles for Representation (2002), Decolonial Voices: Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century (2003), and (with Cordelia Candelaria and Peter García) the Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture (2004). He has two additional volumes in press, including Performing the U.S. Latina and Latino Borderlands (due out in 2011). Along with Frederick Aldama and Patrick Hogan, he is a coeditor of the series Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture. paul breslin teaches and researches modern and contemporary American poetry and Caribbean literature at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Psycho-Political Muse: American Poetry since the Fifties (1987), You Are Here (2000), and Nobody’s Nation: Reading Derek Walcott (2001). His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in Agni, American Poetry Review, American Scholar, Callaloo, Literary Imagination, Modernism/Modernity, the New Republic, the New York Times Book Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Slate, TriQuarterly, Virginia Quarterly, and elsewhere. hilary p. dannenberg is a professor of English literature at the University of Trier in Germany. She has a Ph.D. in German Literature from the University of Cardiff and a higher doctorate (a HabiliContributor Notes 298 Analyzing World Fiction tation) in English literature from the University of Freiburg. She has published articles on American and British film and television, narrative theory, postcolonial Anglophone literatures, and British fiction. She is the author of Coincidence and Counterfactuality: Plotting Time and Space in Narrative Fiction (2008). lalita pandit hogan is a poet and professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. She was a guest coeditor and contributing author to two special issues of College Literature, including Cognitive Shakespeare: Criticism and Theory in the Age of Neuroscience (Winter 2006). She has also coedited and contributed to Rabindranath Tagore: Universality and Tradition (2003). patrick colm hogan is a professor in the Department of English, the Program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, and the Program in Cognitive Science at the University of Connecticut. He has published numerous books, including The Politics of Interpretation (1990), Colonialism and Cultural Identity (2000), The Culture of Conformism (2001), The Mind and Its Stories: Narrative Universals and Human Emotion (2003), Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts (2003), Empire and Poetic Voice (2004), and Understanding Indian Movies (2008). He recently edited The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences (2010). sue j. kim is an associate professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she teaches contemporary literature and literary theory. She has published essays on race, gender, ideology , and aesthetic form in Modern Fiction Studies, the Journal of Asian American Studies, College Literature, and Narrative. sue-im lee is an associate professor of English at Temple University , where teaches contemporary U.S. fiction and Asian American literature. She is the author of A Body of Individuals: The Paradox of Community in Contemporary Fiction (2009) and a coeditor, with Rocío Davis, of Literary Gestures: The Aesthetic in Asian American Writing (2005). ellen mccracken is a professor of Spanish and comparative literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, specializing in Latin American and U.S. Latino/a literature and cultural studies. Her Contributor Notes 299 publications include Decoding Women’s Magazines: From Mademoiselle to MS (1993), New Latina Narrative: The Feminine Space of Postmodern Ethnicity (1999), and The Life and Writing of Fray Angélico Chávez: A New Mexico Renaissance Man (2009). william a. nericcio is the director of the Master of Arts in the Liberal Arts and Sciences program at San Diego State University, where he also serves on the faculties of the Center for Latin American Studies, the Department of Chicana/o Studies, and the Department of English and Comparative Literature. Nericcio is the author of Tex[t]Mex : Seductive Hallucinations of the “Mexican” in America (2007) and Eyegiene: Permutations of Subjectivity in the Televisual Age of Sex and Race (forthcoming). josephine nock-hee park is an associate professor of English and Asian American studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Apparitions of Asia: Modernist Form and Asian American Poetics (2008), and she is presently at work on a...