Fear: Across the Disciplines

Contributors

229 CONTRIBUTORS HAROLD JAMES holds a joint appointment at Princeton as professor of history and as professor of international affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School. He is also Marie Curie Visiting Professor at the European University Institute in Florence. His books include The German Slump: Politics and Economics, 1924–1936 (Oxford University Press, 1986); A German Identity, 1770–1990 (Routledge, 1989); International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods (Oxford University Press, 1996); The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War Against the Jews (Cambridge University Press, 2001); The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression (Harvard University Press, 2001); Europe Reborn: A History, 1914–2000 (Longman, 2003); The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank (Cambridge University Press, 2004); The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire (Princeton University Press, 2006); Family Capitalism: Wendels, Haniels, and Falcks (Belknap of Harvard University Press, 2006); The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle (Harvard University Press, 2009); and Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm (Princeton University Press, 2012). BENJAMIN LAZIER is associate professor of history and humanities at Reed College. His interests include intellectual history, the history of technology, the environment, globalisms, religious thought, political thought, political economy, animality, the emotions, and movements for social action. He is the author of God Interrupted: Heresy and the European Imagination between the World Wars (Princeton University Press, 2008). 230 Contributors For his current work on the history of the notion of the “Whole Earth,” see “Earthrise; or, the Globalization of the World Picture,” American Historical Review 116, no. 3 (June 2011): 602–30. RUTH LEYS is the Henry Wiesenfeld Professor of Humanities in the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University. Her books include Trauma: A Genealogy (University of Chicago Press, 2000) and From Guilt to Shame: Auschwitz and After (Princeton University Press, 2007). For recent publications on aspects of her current work in progress on the history of post–Second World War experimental and theoretical approaches to emotion and affect, see “The Turn to Affect: A Critique,” Critical Inquiry 37, no. 3 (spring 2011): 434–72; “Affect and Intention: A Reply to William E. Connolly,” Critical Inquiry 37, no. 4 (summer 2011): 799–805; and “‘Both of Us Disgusted in My Insula’: Mirror Neuron Theory and Emotional Empathy,” nonsite.org, issue no. 5 (spring 2012), http://nonsite .org/article/“both-of-us-disgusted-in-my-insula”-mirror-neurontheory -and-emotional-empathy. ADAM LOWENSTEIN is associate professor of English and film studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film (Columbia University Press, 2005) and is completing a book on cinematic spectatorship , surrealism, and the age of digital media. RICHARD J. MCNALLY is professor and director of clinical training in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He is the author of more than 350 publications, including the books Panic Disorder: A Critical Analysis (Guilford Press, 1994); Remembering Trauma (Belknap of Harvard University Press, 2003); and What Is Mental Illness? (Belknap of Harvard University Press, 2011). He served on the DSM-IV posttraumatic stress disorder and specific phobia committees and has served as a consultant to the DSM-V committee addressing panic disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder. JAN MIESZKOWSKI is professor of German and humanities at Reed College . He is the author of Labors of Imagination: Aesthetics and Political Economy from Kant to Althusser (Fordham University Press, 2006) and Watching War (Stanford University Press, 2012), and he has published articles on a wide range of topics in literary and cultural theory, continental philosophy, and modern art. Contributors 231 ARNE ÖHMAN is senior professor and professor emeritus of psychology in the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. From 1997 to 2010 he served on the Nobel Assembly, an elected body that chooses Nobel laureates in Medicine. In 2001 he received the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychophysiology and in 2011 the Wilhelm Wundt–William James Award. His research is concerned with an evolutionary perspective on emotion, especially the interplay of nonconscious perceptual mechanisms, psychophysiological responses, and the neural underpinnings of emotion (above all fear), as well as the relevance of these processes for an understanding of anxiety disorders. He has published more than fifty chapters in edited books and in a dozen major handbooks and encyclopedias, including the Handbook of Emotions (Guilford Press, 1993, 2000, and 2008), the Handbook of Cognition and...