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  • Contributors

Ingo Berensmeyer is Professor of English and American Literature at Justus Liebig University Giessen and Visiting Professor of English Literature and Culture at Ghent University. His books include John Banville: Fictions of Order (2000) and Angles of Contingency (2007). His current research focuses on the history of authorship, cultural ecology, and mobility studies.

Winfried Fluck is Professor and Chair of American Culture at the Freie Universität Berlin and codirector of the "Futures of American Studies" Institute at Dartmouth University. His most recent book publications are Romance with America: Essays on Culture, Literature, and American Studies (2009) and Transnational American Studies, edited with Donald Pease and John Carlos Rowe (2011).

Sean Gaston is a Reader in English at Brunel University (London). He studied at the University of Melbourne. His publications include: Derrida and Disinterest (2005); The Impossible Mourning of Jacques Derrida (2006); Starting With Derrida: Plato, Aristotle and Hegel (2007); Derrida, Literature and War: Absence and the Chance of Meeting (2009). He has also coedited Reading Derrida's "Of Grammatology" (2011).

Bernadette Guthrie is a PhD student in the Department of English at Cornell University. Her research interests include readership practices, narrative theory, and modernist literary experimentation.

John Michael is Chair of the English Department and Professor of English and of Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. His books include Emerson and Skepticism: The Cipher of the World (1988); Anxious Intellects: Academic Professionals, Enlightenment Values, and Democratic Politics (2000); and Identity and the Failure of America from Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror (2008). He is currently finishing a book on death and modernity in nineteenth-century American poetry.

Zachary Sayre Schiffman is Professor of History at Northeastern Illinois University. He is the author of On the Threshold of Modernity: Relativism in the French Renaissance (1991) and The Birth of the Past (2011), coauthor of Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution (2000), and editor of Humanism and the Renaissance (2001).

Dries Vrijders studied literature and literary theory at Ghent University and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). Currently employed on a PhD fellowship of the Research Foundation-Flanders, he is preparing a dissertation [End Page 553] on the literary criticism of Kenneth Burke. His research interests include formalist literary theory, rhetoric, and historical theory.

Kendall Walton is Charles L. Stevenson Collegiate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. He has written on fiction, pictorial representation, photography, empathy, the aesthetics of music, metaphor, aesthetic value, and on relations between aesthetic and moral values. His publications include Mimesis as Make-Believe: On the Foundations of the Representational Arts (1990), Marvelous Images: On Values and the Arts (2010), and In Other Shoes: Music, Metaphor, Empathy, Existence (forthcoming).

Robyn Wiegman is Professor of Literature and Women's Studies at Duke University and the author of American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender (1995) and Object Lessons (2011) and the edited collections: Feminism Beside Itself (1995); Who Can Speak? Authority and Critical Identity (1995); AIDS and the National Body: Essays by Thomas Yingling (1997); The Futures of American Studies (2002); and Women's Studies on Its Own: A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change (2002).

Tzachi Zamir is a philosopher and a literary critic at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama (2006) and Ethics and the Beast (2007). He is currently completing a manuscript on self-theatricalization. [End Page 554]

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