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  • Contributors

Cynthia Turner Camp is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Georgia. She has completed a monograph on constructions of the insular past in Middle English saints' lives, provisionally entitled Holy Histories: Anglo-Saxon Saints and the Writing of Religious History in Late Medieval England. Her other publications on corpses and temporalities have appeared in Exemplaria and postmedieval.

Pascale Casanova is Visiting Professor at Duke University. In addition to numerous articles, she is the author of Samuel Beckett: Anatomy of a Literary Revolution (1997; English translation 2006), The World Republic of Letters (1999; English translation 2004), and Kafka: Angry Poet (2011; English translation 2014).

Michel Chaouli is Associate Professor of German at Indiana University, where he directs the Center for Theoretical Inquiry in the Humanities. He is the author of The Laboratory of Poetry: Chemistry and Poetics in the Work of Friedrich Schlegel (2002) as well as essays on European literature and philosophy from 1600 to the present. He is completing a book on Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment.

J. E. Elliott is currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute. He has a particular interest in the organizational sociology of science and has published widely in the social and historical contexts of literary study. His "The Cost of Reading in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Auction Sale Catalogues and the Cheap Literature Hypothesis" appeared in a recent issue of ELH.

Thomas H. Ford is a Lecturer in English and Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where he teaches Romantic literature. He is currently completing a book manuscript titled Romantic Atmospheres: The Poetics of Aerial Culture 1774-1848.

Jesper Gulddal is Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies and Head of English and Writing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His most recent book is Anti-Americanism in European Literature (2011). He is currently undertaking a comparative study of the relationship between mobility and movement control in the modern European novel.

Jerome McGann is John Stewart Bryan University Professor, University of Virginia. This essay is one of several other recent pieces (on Irving, Cooper, and Poe) that explore problems of American history and culture—all preludes to a book presently titled American Memory. The methodology grounding this work [End Page 515] is set forth in A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in an Age of Digital Reproduction to be published in 2014.

Andrew H. Miller is Professor of English at Indiana University. He is the author of Novels Behind Glass (1995) and The Burdens of Perfection (2008) and is currently at work on a project concerning counterfactual representations of the self, titled On Not Being Someone Else.

Timothy Yu is Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies and director of the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965 (2009). [End Page 516]

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