Conjuring the Real: The Role of Architecture in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Contributors

215 michael alexander held the Chair of English Literature at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, where he is now Emeritus Professor. Among his extensive publications are Beowulf: A Verse Translation (1973, 2001), The Canterbury Tales: The First Fragment (1996), The Earliest English Poems (1966, 1991), and A History of English Literature (2000, 2007). Professor Alexander’s most recent publication is Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England (2007). andrew ballantyne is a professor of architecture at Newcastle University, UK. He has recently chaired the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain and is a board member of the European Architectural History Network. He worked as an architect, and then with an archaeologist, Gill Ince, on the survey and analysis of a Byzantine settlement, published as Paliochora on Kythera (2007). His interest in history and philosophy has drawn him into wide-ranging studies that include Tudoresque: Histories of a Popular Architecture (2011), with Andrew Law; Deleuze and Guattari for Architects (2007); Architecture Theory: A Reader in Philosophy and Culture (2005); Architecture as Experience (2004), with Dana Arnold; Architectures: Modernism and After (2003); What Is Architecture? (2002); and Architecture: Landscape and Liberty (1997). His Architecture: A Very Short Introduction (2003) has been translated into many languages, including Chinese and Kurdish, and has been republished with additional illustrations as Brief Insight: Architecture (2010). stephen bann, a Fellow of the British Academy, is Emeritus Professor of art history at the University of Bristol. Between 2000 and 2004 he served as president of the Comité international d’histoire de l’art, a consortium of thirty-three national committees of art history . Professor Bann’s research interests include museum history and CONTRIBUTORS 216 Contributors theory, historical representation in painting and other visual media, the twentieth-century avant-garde movement, postmodern media and installation art, and land art and landscape theory. His Parallel Lines: Printmakers, Painters and Photographers in Nineteenth Century France (2001) was awarded the R. H. Gapper Prize for French Studies in 2002. The interest of Professor Bann’s work can be assessed by the publication of About Stephen Bann (2006), a collection of essays written by a group of eminent scholars. ian christie, a Fellow of the British Academy, is a professor of film and media history in the School of History of Art, Film, and Visual Media, Birkbeck College, University of London. He has written extensively on Russian and British cinema, especially on the work of Eisenstein, Powell, and Pressburger, and is also coeditor of the regularly updated Scorsese on Scorsese. He has also contributed to many exhibitions, including Spellbound: Art and Film (1996) and Modernism: Designing a New World (2006). A frequent broadcaster and dvd commentator, he coproduced a series for bbc Television in 1994, The Last Machine: Early Cinema and the Birth of the Modern World, presented by Terry Gilliam. In 2006 he was Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge University, with a series of lectures entitled “The Cinema Has Not Yet Been Invented.” His book The Art of Film: John Box and Production Design (2009) deals in more detail with some of the films discussed in his chapter in the present work, especially Oliver! He is currently working on the early history of British cinema and on the challenge of the digital revolution. rumiko handa is a professor of architecture and serves as the graduate committee chair of the architecture program at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She holds a bachelor of architecture degree from the University of Tokyo and a master of architecture, a master of science in architecture, and a PhD in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. A licensed architect, she practiced in Tokyo and Philadelphia. She taught at the University of Michigan and Texas Tech Contributors 217 University and was a guest lecturer/critic at a number of institutions in Japan, Ireland, and the United States. She is the recipient of the 2002 National Educator Honor Award from the American Institute of Architecture Students. Professor Handa’s research grants and fellowships include those from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Huntington Library, the Association for Asian Studies, and the Newberry Library Consortium. Her writings have appeared in the Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Architecture, Architectura: Elements of Architectural Style, and Transportable Environments : Theory, Context, Design and Technology; the journals of the Society of Architectural Historians and the Design Research Society; and in Nexus: Architecture and Mathematics, as well...