Contributors
- Contributors
Aduke Adebayo is a professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Her areas of specialization are the Francophone African novel and feminist criticism, and she works to ensure appropriate, contextual, and informed Anglophone reactions to Francophone African literature. Her major publications include Critical Essays on the Novel in Francophone Africa (AMD, 1995), Feminism and Black Women's Creative Writings (Ibadan University Press, 1996), "Feminism in Francophone African Literature: From Liberalism to Militancy," in Introduction to Francophone African Literature, ed. Olusola Oke and Sam Ade Ojo (Spectrum Books, 2000), and "Righting Patriarchal Wrongs: A Study of African Women in Recent Francophone African Literature" (paper presented at the 50th Conference of the African Studies Association, New York, 12-18 October 2007).
Alireza Anushiravani is an associate professor of comparative literature at Shiraz Unviersity, Iran, and a visiting scholar at Harvard University. He is the coauthor of A Conversation with Modern Persian Poets (Mazda Publishers, 2004). He is also the associate editor of Comparative Literature Journal published by the Academy of Persian Language and Literature. His forthcoming book in Persian is Comparative Literature: Theories and Methodologies (2013). His most recent essays include "The Necessity of Comparative Literature in Iran," "The Pathology of Comparative Literature in Iran," "World Literature: From Idea to Theory," and "Comparative Literature and Translation Studies."
Animesh Baidya received his master's degree in comparative literature from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He is currently pursuing a PhD as a Junior Research Fellow in the School of Women's Studies at Jadavpur University.
Michael Beard teaches in the English Department at the University of North Dakota. Recent publications include a translation, with Adnan Haydar, of a collection of poetry by Adonis, Mihyar of Damascus, His Songs. He was coeditor of the journal Edebiyât, which merged with Middle Eastern Literatures in 2004, and he has continued in that role. He coedits (with Adnan Haydar) the series "Middle East Literature in translation" for Syracuse University Press.
Ipshita Chanda teaches comparative literature at Jadavpur University in Kolkata, India. She translates from Bangla, Hindi, Urdu, English, and French and has research interests in the literatures and cultures of the Indian subcontinent and Africa.
Amiya Dev is vice-chancellor of Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. He was a founder and general secretary of the Comparative Literature Association of India and vice president of the International Comparative Literature Association. He has published many seminal essays on comparative and Indian literature in both Bangla and English. Among his books in English are The Idea of Comparative Literature in India (Papyrus, 1984) and Epic and Other Higher Narratives: Essays in Intercultural Studies, coedited with Steven Shankman (Pearson Education, 2010).
Hartmut Elsenhans is professor emeritus at the Institute of Political Science, Leipzig University, Germany. His research focus is liberation movements, secular state classes and their economic bases in external and internal rents, and globalization and the rise of new cultural identitarian movements. He is currently working on a multivolume project on the rise and the fall of the capitalist world system. [End Page 686]
Emine Ö. Evered earned her PhD in history from the University of Arizona and is currently an associate professor and interim director of the Muslim Studies Program at Michigan State University. Her research deals with matters of modernization in the late Ottoman and early republican periods. She has just published a book dealing with education and the politics of schooling in the Hamidian period of the empire, Empire and Education under the Ottomans: Politics, Reform, and Resistance from the Tanzimat to the Young Turks (I. B. Tauris, 2012), and she is working on questions of resources, environment, and public health.
Dorothy Figueira holds graduate degrees in the history of religion and theology from Paris and Harvard and a PhD from the University of Chicago in comparative literature. Her scholarly interests include religion and literature, translation theory, exoticism, myth theory, and travel narratives. She is the author of, most recently, Aryans, Jews, Brahmins: Theorizing Authority through Myths of Identity (State University of New York Press, 2002), Otherwise Occupied: Pedagogies of Alterity and the Brahminization of Theory (State University of New York Press, 2008), and the coedited volume (with Marc Maufort) Theatres in...
