Contributors
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Charles Altieri teaches twentieth-century American poetry at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books are Subjective Agency and Postmodernisms Now (1998). He is currently working on a book on the aesthetics of the affects.
Frans de Bruyn is Professor of English Literature at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of The Literary Genres of Edmund Burke: The Political Uses of Literary Form (1996) and numerous essays on a range of subjects in eighteenth-century studies. He is currently engaged in a study of the literature of agriculture in eighteenth-century Britain.
Ian M. Helfant is Associate Professor of Russian at Colgate University, where he teaches Russian language, literature, and culture. He has published articles in Slavic Review, The Russian Review, and Romantic Russia. His latest book, The High Stakes of Identity: Gambling in the Life and Literature of Nineteenth-Century Russia, is due out this fall.
Randi Koppen is Associate Professor of British Literature at the University of Bergen. She has published books and articles on feminist theater, on theories of spectatorship, and on modern and postmodern formalisms. Her current project is a study of points of intersections between formalism and materialism in modern writing of selves.
Jerome McGann is the John Stewart Bryan Professor of English at the University of Virginia. His books include Towards a Literature of Knowledge (1989), The Textual Condition (1991), Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism (1993), Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Literary Style, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game that Must be Lost (2000). Radiant Textuality: Literary Studies After the World Wide Web is due out this fall.
Lee Morrissey is Associate Professor of English at Clemson University. He is the author of From the Temple to the Castle: An Architectural History of British Literature, 1660–1760 (1999). He is now writing a book entitled The Constitution of Literature: Literacy and Democracy in Early English Literary Criticism.
Jonathan Rée teaches history and philosophy at Middlesex University in London. He has made philosophical translations from French, German, and Danish, and his books include Heidegger (1998) and I See A Voice (1999).
Igor Shaitanov is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow. He has published widely on Russian and English literature, mostly poetry, theory of literature, and biography of [End Page 445] ideas. Among his books is Myslyashchaya musa: Otkrytie prirody v poesii 18 veka (The reflective muse: The return to nature in 18th century poetry [1989]). He is preparing for publication a new edition of Veselovskii’s Historical Poetics.
David Sidorsky is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University where he teaches moral philosophy, political philosophy, and literary theory. His recent publications in moral philosophy include “Incomplete Routes to Moral Objectivity: Rationalism and Pluralism” in the International Yearbook of Hermeneutics (2001) and “Incomplete Routes to Moral Objectivity: Four Variants of Naturalism” in Moral Knowledge (2001).
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Veselovskii (1838–1906) graduated from Moscow University and became a professor at St. Petersburg University in 1872. He expanded from his original interests in European philology and especially the Italian Renaissance to broad historical-comparativist studies of folklore and literature, and published significant theoretical essays on methodology, poetics, and aesthetics.
Boguslaw Zylko is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Gdansk. His books include Semiotyka dziejów Rosji (Semiotics of the history of Russia [1993]); Michail Bachtin. W kregu filozofii jezyka i literatury (Mikhail Bakhtin: In the circle of philosophy of language and literature [1994]); and numerous articles on twentieth century cultural studies. He is currently completing a book on the history of Russian literary criticism from the Russian Formalist School to the Moscow-Tartu Group.
