Contributors
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Paul B. Armstrong is Professor of English and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of The Phenomenology of Henry James (1983), The Challenge of Bewilderment: Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford (1987), and Conflicting Readings: Variety and Validity in Interpretation (1990). Most recently he is the editor of a Norton Critical Edition of E. M. Forster’s novel Howards End (1998).
Winfried Fluck is Professor and Chair of American Culture at the J. F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin; before that he was Professor of American Literature at the University of Constance. He has published widely on American literature and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and on questions of literary and cultural theory. His books include Theorien der amerikanischen Literatur (1987), Inszenierte Wirklichkeit (1992), and Das kulturelle Imaginäre. Eine Funktionsgeschichte des amerikanischen Romans 1790–1900 (1997). He is currently writing a history of American culture.
Eric Gans is the editor of Anthropoetics: The Electronic Journal of Generative Anthropology and teaches French at UCLA. His most recent book is Signs of Paradox: Irony, Resentment, and Other Mimetic Structures (Stanford, 1997).
Murray Krieger is University Research Professor at the University of California, Irvine. He was the founding co-director of the School of Criticism and Theory and the founding director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute. He is the author of many books, of which the most recent are Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign (1992) and The Institution of Theory (1994). He is currently working on a manuscript he is calling The Theory Generation, in which he is tracing his role in the past fifty years of debate in the universities about literary criticism and theory.
Gabriel Motzkin is Associate Professor of History, Philosophy, and German Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Time and Transcendence: Secular History, the Catholic Reaction and the Rediscovery of the Future (1992) and of numerous articles on the philosophy of history, the relations between history and memory, history and time, the history of the humanities, and secularization.
Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and holds the Renee Lang Chair for Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of The Concept of Ambiguity: The Example of James (1977), Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics (1983), A Glance Beyond [End Page 225] Doubt: Narration, Representation, Subjectivity (1996), and numerous articles on literary theory as well as on specific literary texts. She is editor of Discourse in Psychoanalysis and Literature (1987) and Rereading Texts/Rethinking Critical Presuppositions (with Leona Toker and Shuli Barzilai, 1997). Her current research concerns the concept of narrative in other disciplines (historiography, psychoanalysis, jurisprudence).
John Paul Riquelme teaches English at Boston University. He is the author of Teller and Tale in Joyce’s Fiction: Oscillating Perspectives (1983) and Harmony of Dissonances: T. S. Eliot, Romanticism, and Imagination (1991) and the editor of Fritz Senn’s Joyce’s Dislocutions: Essays on Reading as Translation (1984), Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1998), and Dracula (forthcoming 2000). His work-in-progress includes a book-length study of the origins of literary modernism in 1890s Britain.
Gabriele Schwab is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the Critical Theory Institute at the University of California, Irvine. Her books include Subjects Without Selves: Transitional Texts in Modern Fiction (1994) and The Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary Language (1997). Her work in progress includes a theoretical book on the cultural unconscious and a book on the anthropological turn in literary studies titled Imaginary Ethnographics. She is also editing a collection of essays titled Forces of Globalization as part of a series from the Critical Theory Institute.
Bianca Theisen is Associate Professor of German at The Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Bogenschluß: Kleists Formalisierung des Lesens (1996), has published articles on romanticism, Nietzsche, and Thomas Bernhard, and is currently completing a book on mixed media...
