Contributors
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Michael Allan is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley. He focuses on modern Arabic, francophone and anglophone literature, and is writing his dissertation on the relationship between secularism and reading in colonial Egypt.
Gunilla Anderman is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Surrey, where she teaches translation theory, translation of drama, and translation of children's literature, fields in which she has lectured and published widely in the UK as well as internationally. She is also a professional translator, and her translations of Scandinavian plays have been staged in London and New York. Her latest book Europe on Stage: Translation and Theatre (2005) was published by Oberon Books. She is co-editor of the series Translating Europe and has recently finished editing volume three, Voices in Translation: Bridging Cultural Divides, to be published by Multilingual Matters in the summer of 2007. She is also the co-editor of Palgrave's Textbooks in Translating and Interpreting. Together with J. Diaz Cintaz, she recently finished editing a collection of essays on translation for the screen entitled Language Transfer on the Screen: Audiovisual Translation, to be published by Palgrave/Macmillan in 2007.
Gisela Argyle, Associate Professor of Humanities at York University in Toronto, has published Germany as Model and Monster: Allusions in English Fiction, 1830s-1930s (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002). Other publications include German Elements in the Fiction of George Eliot, Gissing, and Meredith (1979); "Mrs. Humphry Ward's Fictional Experiments in the Woman Question," in Studies in English Literature 43.4; "Mary Augusta Arnold Ward," in Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook (2000); and other articles on Victorian literature and comparative literature, as well as literary translations from German into English and the reverse. An article, "George Meredith's Fictional Transformations of Female Life-Writings," is under final consideration for publication. The influence of English fiction on Fanny Lewald's post-1848 novels is the subject of a current project. [End Page 225]
Jason Brooks is a Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature at Penn State University, where he specializes in ancient Greek tragedy and Russian Silver Age poetry, with an emphasis on translation. In addition to various studies on the intersection between film and literature, as well as lyric poetry, he has also published a biography of the classical scholar, Richmond Lattimore. Jason Brooks teaches Greco-Roman mythology, Greek civilization, and Latin language courses, both online and in the classroom.
Maria Boletsi is currently teaching comparative literature and working as a researcher at Leiden University (The Netherlands). She has a background in modern and ancient Greek literature (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), comparative literature and cultural analysis (University of Amsterdam). She is working in the fields of cultural analysis, postcolonial theory and literature, poststructuralist theory and philosophy of language. She has recently published articles on C. P. Cavafy and literary speech acts, Jamaica Kincaid, migratory aesthetics, and cultural identity in the Balkans.
Edward H. Friedman is Chancellor's Professor of Spanish and Professor of Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University. His primary field of research is early modern Spanish literature, with special emphasis on picaresque narrative, the writings of Cervantes, and the Comedia. He also has worked widely in contemporary narrative and drama. His books include Cervantes in the Middle: Realism and Reality in the Spanish Novel (2006). He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Scholar Program, and the National Humanities Center. He is editor of the Bulletin of the Comediantes and has served as president of the Cervantes Society of America. Nominated by Brigham Young University, he was selected for the Sigma Delta Pi "Orden de Don Quijote" Award in 2005. He was presented the Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at Vanderbilt in 2006.
Richard Gilmore is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. He is the author of Philosophical Health: Wittgenstein's Method in "Philosophical Investigations" (1999) and Doing Philosophy at the Movies (2005). Recent publications include "Existence, Reality, and God in Peirce's Metaphysics: The Exquisite Aesthetics of the Real" (forthcoming), "Art, Sex, and Time in Scorsese...
