Visible Writings: Cultures, Forms, Readings

Notes on Contributors

Gordon Brotherston is founding member of the Department of Literature at the University of Essex. He has held posts at King’s College, London, as well as at the universities of Iowa, British Columbia, Mexico , São Paulo, Indiana at Bloomington, and Stanford. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Humboldt Stiftung, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Stanford Humanities Center, the British Academy, and elsewhere. Brotherston has written a dozen books, among them Book of the FourthWorld: Reading the Native Americas through their Literature (1992) and Painted Books from Mexico (1995). Currently, he is professor emeritus at Essex and honorary professor at the University of Manchester. Phillip Dennis Cate is director emeritus of the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, where he served as director from 1970 to 2002 and chief curator from 2002 to 2006. He is a specialist in nineteenth-century French art with an emphasis on the graphic arts, sculpture, and Japonisme. Since 1971, Cate has published extensively in his field, has organized more than a hundred exhibitions, and has edited or co-edited works such as The Spirit of Montmartre: Cabarets, Humor, and the Avant-Garde, 1875– 1905 (1996) and Breaking the Mold: Sculpture in Paris from Daumier to Rodin (2005). François Cornilliat teaches French literature at Rutgers University. He is the author of “Or ne mens”: couleurs de l’éloge et du blâme chez les “Grands Rhétoriqueurs” (1994), Sujet caduc, noble sujet: la poésie de la Renaissance et le choix de ses “arguments” (2009), and several books of poetry. With Richard Lockwood, he co-edited Ethos et pathos: le statut du sujet rhétorique (2000). While his research focuses on Renaissance poetry and rhetoric, he writes occasionally on comics. Marija Dalbello is an associate professor of information science at Rutgers University. Her research, teaching and publications focus on visual genres and visual epistemologies, digital heritage, the history of knowledge, documents, and collections. She has co-edited Print Culture in Croatia: The Canon and the Borderlands (2006) and is now coediting Constructing the Heritage of Cultures: A World History of Notes on Contributors 347 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Librarianship. She is also currently working on a book-length study of visual genres and ceremonies of information in the Habsburg realm. Béatrice Fraenkel is a professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where she teaches the anthropology of writing . Her publications include La Signature, genèse d’un signe (1992), Illettrismes, approches historiques et anthropologiques (1993), Langage et travail: communication, cognition, action (2001), and Les Ecrits de Septembre: New York 2001 (2002). She directs the Anthropology of Writing team at the Interdisciplinary Institute of Contemporary Anthropology –EHESS-CNRS and has been co-directing the research program Ecologie et Politique de l’Ecriture since 2006. Christine Giviskos is associate curator of nineteenth-century European art at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, where she co-curated the 2009 exhibition Blocks of Color: AmericanWoodcuts from the 1890s to the Present and wrote an essay in the accompanying catalog. Her other publications include essays in Oudry’s Painted Menagerie (2007) and The Language of the Nude: Four Centuries of Drawing the Human Body (2008). Cynthia Hahn is a professor of art history at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her work has focused on the production of meaning in medieval art, especially in objects associated with the cult of saints. Her numerous publications include Portrayed on the Heart: Narrative Effect in Pictorial Lives of the Saints from the Tenth through the Thirteenth Century (2001) and a forthcoming study on reliquaries entitled Strange Beauty. Roxane Jubert, graphic designer and scholar, teaches at Université Rennes 2 and at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Her writings focus on graphic design, typography, and their relation to the visual arts. She is the author of Graphisme, typographie, histoire (2005), which appeared in English under the title Typography and Graphic Design: From Antiquity to the Present (2006). Li Jinjia is an associate professor of Chinese language and teaches in the National Institute of Languages and Oriental Civilizations in Paris. He is the author of a book about the French translations of Chinese classical novels entitled Le “Liaozhai zhiyi” en français: étude historique et critique des traductions (2009). He also published a book of poetry entitled Heizhang (Black Obstacles) (2009). Claude Mouchard is professor emeritus of French and...