Contributors
- Contributors
Roger Bellin is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at Princeton University. His dissertation reads the American Transcendentalists within the history of argument and the search for alternatives to disputatious reason. Other recent projects include a reading of the prosaic passages of T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" and an essay on Freud's ethic of historical narration.
Roy Benjamin received his Ph.D. at the CUNY Graduate Center. His dissertation is entitled "The Triptych Vision: Joyce and Peirce" and in it he applies the ideas of Charles Sanders Peirce (specifically his categories of first-ness, secondness, and thirdness) to Finnegans Wake. He has also edited a book of Irish poetry entitled Ireland: A Celebration in Verse. Currently he is teaching English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College.
Carla Billitteri is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maine. She is currently at work on a book on language, mimesis, and social utopias in the poetry of Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson.
Karen Bishop is a doctoral student in the Comparative Literature Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is currently writing a dissertation on exile, place and history in twentieth-century Argentine, French and American literature. She also works as a freelance translator in California and Seville, Spain, and serves on the editorial board of Translation: A Translation Studies Journal.
Barbara Cole received her Ph.D. from the Poetics Program at SUNY, Buffalo. In addition to writing on Gertrude Stein and negation, she is currently working on a book that delves into Stein's relationship with James Joyce. More specifically, this study investigates the problems of critical reception and proposes an alternative modernist literary history.
Adrienne Janus received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University in August 2004. Before taking up the post of Lecturer in Modern Irish Prose fiction at Aberdeen in January, 2006, she held [End Page 213] post-doctoral positions in the French and Humanities departments at Stanford University and at the Institute of Irish Studies at Queens University, Belfast. The dominant concern of her writing and research is the poetics of auditory phenomena (music, noise, murmurs and laughter) in 20th century literature and theory. She is currently working on a book entitled, Irish Laughter, French Infections and German Doctors.
Ashley Marshall is a Ph.D. candidate at Penn State University, working on a thesis on "The Practice of Satire in England, 1650-1770." Marshall has published articles in Modern Language Review and Studies in Philology, and has articles forthcoming in the British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Studies in Romanticism, Philological Quarterly, and Modern Philology.
Kathy Mezei is a Professor in the Department of Humanities at Simon Fraser University. She has published articles on translation studies, Canadian literature, narrative theory, modern British women writers, and edited special issues on domestic space for Signs (2002) and BC Studies (2003/4). Her translations of French and Quebec poets have appeared in ellipse and La Traductière. Her most recent book, co-written with Chiara Briganti, is Domestic Modernism, the Inter-war Novel, and E.H. Young published by Ashgate in 2006. She runs a website on domestic space (www.sfu.ca/domestic-space), and is a participant in the project, "Bibliography of Comparative Studies in Canadian, Quebec and Foreign Literatures," based at the Université de Sherbrooke (www.compcanlit.ca).
Carey Mickalites teaches modern literature and interdisciplinary studies in the humanities at Michigan State University. He is working on a book that argues for the immanent, critical relation literary Modernism bears to the economic and psychological contradictions of consumer capital. His work has also appeared in Studies in the Novel.
Nathaniel Mills received his B.A. in English and Textual Studies and American Studies, and his M.A. in English, from Syracuse University. He is now a student in the Ph.D. program in English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. His interests include proletarian literature, the American Communist Party, and American radicalism.
Jean-Michel Rabaté has been professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and is now professor of Comparative literature at Princeton. He is the author and editor of more...
