Federman's Fictions: Innovation, Theory, and the Holocaust

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Jan Baetens is professor of cultural studies at the University of Leuven. He has written extensively on minor genres such as the graphic novel and the photonovella and has a strong interest in the theory of photography, mainly in its relationships with literature. Charles Bernstein worked with Raymond Federman as part of the Poetics Program at University at Buffalo, State University of New York in the 1990s. He now teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, where he chairs the Department of Stand-Up Poetry and Avant-Garde Comedy and heads the search committee for the Chief Rabbi of the First Church, Poetic License. Marcel Cornis-Pope is professor of English and co-chair of the English department at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has published several books and articles on the poetics and politics of contemporary fiction, including Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting in the Cold War Era and After (2001). Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and professor of English and philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria. He is editor and founder of the journal symplokē, editor and publisher of American Book Review, and executive director of the Society for Critical Exchange. His recent publications include Affiliations: Identity in Academic Culture, On Anthologies: Politics and Pedagogy, From Socrates to Cinema: An Introduction to Philosophy, Fiction’s Present: Situating Contemporary Narrative Innovation (with R. M. Berry), and Academe Degree Zero: Reconsidering the Politics of Higher Education. Raymond Federman’s final novel, Shhh: The Story of a Childhood, was published in May 2010 by Starcherone Books. Menachem Feuer teaches philosophy at Ryerson University of Toronto. He has published essays and reviews in Shofar, The Journal of Experimental Fiction, Response, CTheory, German Studies Review, International Studies in Philosophy, 305 306 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS MELUS, Modern Fiction Studies, and Comparative Literature and Culture. He has also published in various book collections. Eckhard Gerdes teaches writing at Triton College. He earned an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the author of the novels The Unwelcome Guest plus Nin and Nan and My Landlady the Lobotomist and is the editor of The Journal of Experimental Fiction. Thomas Hartl lives as a critic and translator in Vienna, Austria, and has taught at the University of Salzburg. He is the author of Raymond Federman’s Real Fictitious Discourses: Formulating Yet Another Paradox, and editor of The Precipice and Other Catastrophes, Federman’s collected plays. He also coedited, along with Larry McCaffery and Doug Rice, Federman, A to X-X-X-X—A Recyclopedic Narrative. Daniela Hurezanu has published a book on the French philosopher Maurice Blanchot, and her essays, book reviews, and translations have appeared in dozens of magazines. Her translation (with Stephen Kessler) of Les Ziaux / Eyeseas by Raymond Queneau was published by Black Widow Press (2008). Jerome Klinkowitz is professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at the University of Northern Iowa. He first wrote on Raymond Federman in Literary Disruptions (1975), and has published over forty books of literary and cultural criticism. Since 1996, he has been an editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Larry McCaffery is a literary critic, editor, and retired professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University. His works include Raymond Federman, A to X-X-X-X—A Recyclopedic Narrative (with Thomas Hartl and Doug Rice) and Expelled from Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader (with Michael Hemmingson). Brian McHale is Distinguished Humanities Professor of English at the Ohio State University. He is the author of Postmodernist Fiction (1987), Constructing Postmodernism (1992), and The Obligation toward the Difficult Whole: Postmodernist Long Poems (2004). With Randall Stevenson, he coedited The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English (2006). Christian Moraru is professor of American literature and critical theory at University of North Carolina, Greensboro. His latest books are Rewriting: Postmodern Narrative and Cultural Critique in the Age of Cloning (2001), Memorious Discourse: Reprise and Representation in Postmodernism (2005), and Postcommunism, Postmodernism, and the Global Imagination (2009). 307 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Ted Pelton is a recipient of NEA and Isherwood Fellowships for his fiction. His most recent book is the novella, Bartleby, The Sportscaster. He is also founder and executive director of Starcherone Books, a small press publisher of innovative fiction. He is Professor and Chair of Humanities at Medaille College of Buffalo, New York...