Contributors
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Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru is an associate professor of American Studies at the University of Bucharest. Her main research and teaching interests are contemporary American studies, East European studies, ethnic and African American literatures, postcolonialism, postmodernism, and women’s literature. She has published articles in Romanian and international journals and is the author of Identity Performance in Contemporary Non-WASP American Fiction (2008) and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English, forthcoming from Rodopi. She is the coeditor with with Madalina Nicolaescu and Helen Smith of the two-volume Women’s Voices in Post-Communist Eastern Europe (2005, 2006) and with Teodora Serban-Oprescu of Cultura românească în perspectivă transatlantică: Interviuri (2010).
Barbara Alfano specializes in twentieth-century Italian fiction, with a focus on representations of America, issues of identity, ethics and literature, love, narratology, and themes related to travel. Her essays have appeared in Italica, Forum Italicum, and Variaciones Borges. In 2009, she published her first collection of short stories, Mi chiedevo, in Italian. She has just finished a manuscript entitled “The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film.” Before moving to the United States in 1999, Alfano worked in Naples as a journalist and translator. She has taught Italian language, literature, and culture at the Pennsylvania State University and directed the Italian language program in 2005–2006. Alfano joined the Bennington College faculty of the Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures in the fall of 2008.
Zahra A. Hussein Ali, associate professor of English Literature at Kuwait University, is author of Sami Mohammad And The Semiotics of Abstraction: Kuwaiti Folk Art as Muse. Her other publications include “The Aesthetics of Memorialization: The Sabra and Shatila Genocide in the Work of Sami Mohammad, Jean Genet, and June Jordan,” “The Aesthetics of Dissonance: Echoes of Nietzsche and Yeats in Tawfiq Sayigh’s Poetry,” “Adjusting the Borders of Self: Sir Walter Scott’s The Two Drovers,” “Modernism Subverted: A Study of Embedding The Odyssey in Iris Murdoch’s The Sea, The Sea.” Her current comparative research project investigates the trajectories between Kuwaiti sculpture and prison literature. [End Page 158]
Ariane M. Balizet is an assistant professor of English and Women’s Studies at Texas Christian University. Her research focuses on blood, bodies, and gender in the literature of the English Renaissance. Recent publications include articles on domesticity, cuckoldry, and violence on the Renaissance stage; representations of Jews in early modern poetry and drama; and film adaptations of Shakespeare. She is currently working on a book project entitled “Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama.”
Thora Ilin Bayer is a professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy and RosaMary Foundation Professor of Liberal Arts at Xavier University of Louisiana. She is the author of Cassirer’s Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms (2001) and coeditor of Giambattista Vico, Keys to the New Science: Translations, Commentaries, and Essays (2009). She is the author of numerous articles on the philosophy of culture and value theory. Among these are “History as Symbolic Form: Cassirer and Vico,” “Art as Symbolic Form: Cassirer and the Educational Value of Art,” “The Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment: Cassirer, Berlin, and Vico,” “The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms as a Philosophy of Pluralism,” “Vico’s Principle of Sensus Communis and Forensic Eloquence,” and “Hegelian Rhetoric.”
James Brasfield is a senior lecturer, teaching creative writing, in the English Department at Penn State University. His publications include a collection of poems, Ledger Crossroads (2009), and the cotranslation of The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha (1999). Twice a Senior Fulbright Fellow to Ukraine, he has received fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and has received a Pushcart Prize, the American Association for Ukrainian Studies Prize in Translation, and the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.
Bruce R. Burningham is professor of Hispanic Studies and Theater at Illinois State University, where he is chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. He specializes in medieval and early modern Spanish and Latin American literature, Hispanic theater, and performance theory. He is the author of Tilting Cervantes: Baroque Reflections on Postmodern Culture (2008) and Radical Theatricality: Jongleuresque Performance on the Early Spanish...
