Historicizing Theory

CONTRIBUTORS

BENJAMIN BERTRAM, an assistant professor at the University of Southern Maine, has also published “New Reflections on the Revolutionary Politics of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe” (boundary 2, 22:3). He is currently completing a book on skepticism in early modern England. EVAN CARTON, is Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Institute at the University of Texas. He is the author of The Rhetoric of American Romance and The Marble Faun: Hawthorne’s Transformations, and the coauthor of Poetry and Criticism, 1940–1995, vol. 8 of The Cambridge History of American Literature. His essays on American literature, criticism, and culture have appeared in American Scholar, Raritan, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance , and American Literature. MORRIS DICKSTEIN is Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center and Senior Fellow of the Center for the Humanities, which he founded in 1993. He is the author of Keats and Poetry; Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties; Double Agent: The Critic and Society; and Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945–1970. LOREN GLASS is Assistant Professor of American Literature and Cultural Studies at Towson State University. He is currently completing More than Authors: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States, 1880–1980. JONATHAN GIL HARRIS is Professor of English at George Washington University . He is the author of Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England (1998) and coeditor, with Natasha Korda, of Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama (2002). He has just completed Etiologies of the Economy: Dramas of Mercantilism and Disease in Shakespeare’s England. 315 C O N T R I B U T O R S PETER C. HERMAN is Professor of English at San Diego State University. He is the author of Squitter-wits and Muse-haters: Sidney, Spenser, Milton and Renaissance Antipoetic Sentiment and he has edited Rethinking the Henrician Era: Essays on Early Tudor Texts and Contexts and Day Late, Dollar Short: The Next Generation and the New Academy. He has published essays on Milton, English historiography, Spenser, and Renaissance drama in Renaissance Quarterly , Studies in English Literature, Exemplaria, Criticism, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. IVO KAMPS is Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi . He is the author of Historiography and Ideology in Stuart Drama (1996), and the series editor of Early Modern Cultural Studies, 1500–1700. He is a contributing editor to an anthology of Thomas Middleton’s plays, and he is currently coediting, with Karen Raber, a contextual edition of Measure for Measure. ANDREA LOSELLE is Associate Professor in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles. She is the author of essays on travel and tourism, the compromised writers LouisFerdinand Céline and Paul Morand, French theory, and History’s Double: Cultural Tourism in Twentieth-Century French Writing (1997). LEE MORRISSEY is Associate Professor in English at Clemson University. He is currently completing The Constitution of Literature: Literacy, Democracy, and Early Literary Criticism. JAMES J. PAXSON is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida. He is the author of The Poetics of Personification (1994) and has coedited Desiring Discourse: The Literature of Love, Ovid through Chaucer (1998) and The Performance of Middle English Culture: Essays on Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens (1998). He is an editor of Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. KAREN RABER is Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi . She is the author of essays on early modern English women writers, and Dramatic Difference: Gender, Class and Genre in the Early Modern Closet Drama (2001). She is currently coediting, with Ivo Kamps, a contextual edition of Measure for Measure. MARC REDFIELD is Professor of English and holder of the John D. and Lillian Maguire Chair in the Humanities at Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman 316 Historicizing Theory (1996) and The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism (2003). He has coedited, with Janet Brodie, High Anxieties: Cultural Studies in Addiction (2002). DAVID R. SHUMWAY is Professor of English and Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University and Director of its Center for Cultural Analysis. He is the author of Michel Foucault and Creating American Civilization : A Genealogy of...