Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Lance Schachterle is Professor of English at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His work as a Cooper scholar includes co-editing the CSE-approved scholarly texts of The Pioneers (1980), The Deerslayer (1987), and The Spy (2002), as well as several articles on textual issues in all three books. In 2002, Schachterle became Editor-in-Chief of “The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper”, for which he created the website ( www.wjfc.org ) and is arranging for publication of nine more volumes. He is currently working with James Sappenfield on an edition of The Bravo, as well as several critical articles. He is advisory editor to Literature in the Early American Republic: Annual Studies on Cooper and his Contemporaries. In 2007, he was elected first president of the reorganized James Fenimore Cooper Society.
Beatrice Arduini is Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at Tulane University. Her research focuses on medieval and early modern Italian literature, in particular Dante studies and the reception of Dante’s works in the fifteenth century, as well as manuscript culture and history of the book. Her dissertation, “Il Convivio: da progetto incompiuto a icona editoriale”, examines the editorial and textual-material states of Dante’s unfinished treatise from its earliest manuscript tradition to its Florentine editio princeps of 1490. Her recent and forthcoming essays include articles on Italian manuscript culture in Medioevo e Rinascimento, Dante Studies, and for the collection of Studi dedicati a Gennaro Barbarisi.
John Haines holds a Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto, where he is cross-appointed at the Faculty of Music and the Centre for Medieval Studies. In 2004, his book Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvères: The Changing Identity of Medieval Music was published by Cambridge University Press, as well as a collection of essays co-edited with Randall Rosenfeld and entitled Music and Medieval Manuscripts: Paleography and Performance (Ashgate Press). In 2008, his articles will appear in The Journal of Medieval Latin, Early Music, Theoria, Early Music History, and Scriptorium, the latter an essay on the “Ars notoria”. His forthcoming [End Page 141] book, to be published next year by Droz in their series “Publications romanes et françaises” is entitled Satire and Apocalypse in the Songs of Renart le nouvel. He is also a contributor to the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to French Music and the Cambridge History of Music Performance. In Toronto, he heads up the newly founded “Nota Quadrata” project devoted to late medieval music notation.
Daniel E. O’Sullivan is Associate Professor of French at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Marian Devotion in Thirteenth-Century French Lyric (Toronto 2005) and a chief editor of a multi-volume edition of the poetry of the thirteenth-century French count and king of Navarre, Thibaut de Champagne (forthcoming at Droz) as well as essays on early French lyric and music in Text, Neophilologus, and The McNeese Review. He is the volume editor of and a contributor to ‘Le beau jeu nottable’: Chess in Medieval European Culture (forthcoming at de Gruyter). Recently he was appointed as editor-in-chief of Medieval Perspectives, the journal of the Southeastern Medieval Association. He also serves as one of two review editors for Textual Cultures.
Ronald Broude is Trustee of the Broude Trust for the Publication of Musicological Editions. He is a member of the STS Executive Committee and served in 2004–2005 as STS Executive Director. [End Page 142]
