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Contributors Brian Boyd, University Distinguished Professor in the Department of English, University of Auckland, is known for his award-winning work on Vladimir Nabokov, translated into seven languages. He has also published on Renaissance drama; on American, English, Irish, New Zealand, and Russian fiction; on children ’s fiction; and on evolutionary approaches to play, humor, and literature. His next book will be a study of evolution, cognition, and fiction with detailed examples from Homer to the 1990s. Joseph Carroll teaches English at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. He has published books on Matthew Arnold and Wallace Stevens, and for the past several years he has been working to establish a Darwinian paradigm for literary study. In Evolution and Literary Theory, he set evolutionary theory in sharp contrast with poststructuralism, and in Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature , he collected the essays in which he has subsequently tracked and helped guide the development of Darwinian literary studies. He has also edited an edition of Darwin’s Origin of Species. He is currently working on using Darwinism for the study of Victorian fiction. Frederick Crews is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His writings include Skeptical Engagements, The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy, The Memory Wars: Freud’s Legacy in Dispute, and the satires The Pooh Perplex and Postmodern Pooh. He is also the editor of Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend. Denis Dutton teaches the philosophy of art at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. For twenty-five years he has edited the influential journal of theory and criticism Philosophy and Literature. He is also the editor of the Arts and Letters Daily, a leading site for intellectual content on the Internet that has been hailed by The Guardian as the best website in the world. Dutton has written extensively on, among other things, the intersections between aesthetics and evolutionary theory. Dylan Evans trained and practiced as a Lacanian psychoanalyst in Buenos Aires, London, and Paris before receiving a Ph.D. in philosophy from the London School of Economics. He did postdoctoral research in philosophy at Kings College 301 London and in robotics at the University of Bath before moving to the University of the West of England where he is currently Senior Lecturer in Intelligent Autonomous Systems. His research interests include the study of emotions in humans and the attempt to endow robots with artificial emotions. He is the author of six books, including An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Introducing Evolutionary Psychology, Emotion: The Science of Sentiment, and Placebo: Mind over Matter in Modern Medicine. Maryanne L. Fisher received a Ph.D. from York University in Toronto and is currently an assistant professor at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, Canada. Her research primarily focuses on women’s mating strategies, spanning the topics of female intrasexual competition, attractiveness, hormonal influences, romantic relationship factors, and cross-cultural mate preferences. Robin Fox is University Professor of Social Theory at Rutgers University, where he founded the Department of Anthropology in 1967. Educated at the London School of Economics and Harvard, he did fieldwork in the New Mexico Pueblos and in the West of Ireland and taught at the universities of Exeter and London. He wrote Kinship and Marriage, which has remained the major text on the subject, and thirteen other books, including The Imperial Animal with Lionel Tiger. His latest is Participant Observer: Memoir of a Transatlantic Life. Jonathan Gottschall received a Ph.D. in English from Binghamton University. He has published articles on Homer, on the study of literature from an evolutionary perspective, and on quantitative approaches to literary study. He has also published human science research on wartime rape, rape-pregnancy, and the controversy over evolutionary study of rape; literature as a source of quantitative data; mate preferences; and cross-cultural universals. He is currently putting finishing touches on his book The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence, and the World of Homer. Ian Jobling has a Ph.D. in comparative literature from SUNY Buffalo and has written articles examining folktales and the Victorian novel from a Darwinian perspective. He now works as a writer and webmaster in the Washington D.C. area. Daniel J. Kruger earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in social psychology at Loyola University Chicago with projects integrating social psychology with evolutionary theory. He is currently a researcher at the University of Michigan, where he works on projects ranging from applied health research to...

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