The Philosophy of Horror

Contributors

245 Contributors Paul A. Cantor is Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He has taught at Harvard University in both the English and the government departments, and served on the National Council on the Humanities from 1992 to 1997. His Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization was named one of the best nonfiction books of 2001 by the Los Angeles Times. His award-winning essay on The Simpsons has been widely anthologized and has been translated into Russian and Spanish. He has published frequently on popular culture in scholarly journals and books as well as newspapers and magazines. Susann Cokal is associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of the novels Mirabilis and Breath and Bones. She has published articles on authors such as Jeanette Winterson, Marianne Wiggins, and Georges Bataille, and on pop culture subjects such as supermodels and Mary Poppins. Thomas Fahy is associate professor of English and director of the American Studies Program at Long Island University, C. W. Post. He also writes horror novels for adults and teens. He has published eleven books, including FreakShows and the ModernAmericanImagination, Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera:A Reader’s Guide; three horror novels, Sleepless, The Unspoken, and Night Visions; and several edited collections on theater, film, and television—Considering David Chase, Considering Alan Ball, Considering Aaron Sorkin, Captive Audience: Prison and Captivity in Contemporary Theater, and Peering behind the Curtain: Disability, Illness, and the Extraordinary Body in Contemporary Theater. Robert F. Gross holds a PhD in comparative literature from the Uni- 246 Contributors versity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and teaches theater at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where he has directed more than fifty productions. He has published books and articles on a wide range of plays, from Rosmersholm and Fuhrmann Henschel to The Red Devil Battery Sign and The Houseguests, as well as movies (Sabrina, Malice) and television series (The Rockford Files, Six Feet Under). Ann C. Hall is professor of English at Ohio Dominican University and presidentoftheHaroldPinterSociety.ShehaspublishedPhantomVariations: The Adaptations of Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera, 1925 to Present; coedited Mommy Angst: Motherhood in American Culture; edited Making the Stage: Essays on the Changing Concept of Theatre, Drama, and Performance; coedited Pop-Porn: Pornography in American Culture; and is working on a book about playwright and screenwriter Ronald Harwood. David MacGregor Johnston teaches philosophy and film studies at Lyndon State College. His primary research interests include aesthetics, existentialism, and phenomenology. Amy Kind is associate professor of philosophy at Claremont McKenna College. Her philosophical research, which primarily concerns issues in the philosophy of mind relating to the problem of consciousness, has been published in such journals as Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Studies, and the Philosophical Quarterly. Her work on philosophy and popular culture has previously appeared in volumes such as “Battlestar Galactica” and Philosophy: Mission Accomplished or Mission Frakked Up? and “Star Trek” and Philosophy: The Wrath of Kant. John Lutz was a visiting professor of philosophy at Long Island University for nine years. He is currently assistant professor in the English department and teaches philosophy and literature, Marxist theory, and postcolonial literature. His published work, much of it dealing with commodity fetishism in the twentieth-century novel, has appeared in journals such as Conradiana, Research in African Literatures, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Mississippi Quarterly, and Rethinking Marxism. Jeremy Morris received his PhD from the University of Miami and is visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Ohio University. His areas of specialization include epistemology and the philosophy of language. He has published articles in Logique et analyse and Argumentation. Contributors 247 Philip J. Nickel is assistant professor of philosophy and ethics at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. He writes about epistemology, moral philosophy, and applied ethics, and is currently writing a book about the philosophy of trust. Jessica O’Hara earned her PhD in English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is associate director of Writing across the Curriculum for the Center for Excellence in Writing at Penn State, where she teaches Irish literature, literary theory, and composition courses. She is also pretty afraid of ghosts. Lorena Russell is associate professor at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, where she teaches in the Department of Literature and Language. Her essays have appeared in Considering Alan Ball, Straight...