Contributors
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Rey Chow is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University where she is also the Chesler-Mallow Senior Faculty Research Fellow and director of the Pembroke Center’s year-long postdoctoral seminar “The Orders of Time” in 2004–05. Her most recent book publication is a collection of her essays translated into Italian, Il Sogno di Butterfly: Costellazioni postcoloniali (2004). A new book, The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work is forthcoming.
Jonathan Culler was Director of the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University from 1984–1993 and co-author of Speaking for the Humanities (1989). Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University, his books include Flaubert: The Uses of Uncertainty (1974), Structuralist Poetics (1975), On Deconstruction (1982), and Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (1997). He is at work on a book entitled Theorizing Lyric.
Mark Edmundson is NEH/Daniels Family Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Why Read? (2004), Teacher (2002), and Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida (1995), among other books.
Monika Fludernik is Professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg/Germany. She is the author of The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction (1993), Towards a “Natural” Narratology (1996), which was awarded the Perkins Prize by the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, and Echoes and Mirrorings: Gabriel Josipovici’s Creative Oevre (2000). She has edited a special issue on second-person fiction (Style 28.3, 1994), a special issue of EJES on “Language and Literature” (EJES 2.2, 1998), and (co-edited with Donald and Margaret Freeman) a special issue of Poetics Today 20.3 (1999) on “Metaphor and Beyond: New Cognitive Developments.” Other publications include several collections of essays: Hybridity and Postcolonialism: Twentieth-Century Indian Literature (1998); Diaspora and Multiculturalism: Common Traditions and New Developments (2003); In the Grip of the Law: Trials, Prisons and the Space Between, co-edited with Greta Olson (2004); and numerous articles on expatriate Indian literature in English, British aesthetics in the eighteenth century, and narratological questions.
Elizabeth Freeman is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture (2002) and is currently working on a second book project tentatively entitled Time Binds: Essays on Queer Temporality. [End Page 141]
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is the Albert Guérard Professor of Literature at Stanford University. Among his books on literary theory and literary and cultural history are Eine Geschichte der spanischen Literatur (1990; Spanish translation forthcoming); Making Sense in Life and Literature (1992); In 1926—Living at the Edge of Time (1998); Corpo e forma (2001); Vom Leben und Sterben des groben Romanisten (2002), The Powers of Philology (2003), and Production of Presence (2004), and In Praise of Athletic Beauty (forthcoming). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Professeur Attaché au Collège de France, and has been a Visiting Professor at numerous universities on several continents, most recently at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.
Geoffrey Galt Harpham is the Director of the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, NC, and Research Professor at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Among his recent books are Shadows of Ethics: Criticism and the Just Society (1999), Language Alone: The Critical Fetish of Modernity (2002), and, with M. H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms, 8th edition (2004).
Jerome McGann is the John Stewart Bryan University Professor at the University of Virginia. He has two books in press: The Scholar’s Art: Literature and Scholarship in an Administered World and The Point is to Change It: Literature in the Continuing Present.
Meaghan Morris is Chair Professor of Cultural Studies and Coordinator of the Kwan Fong Cultural Research and Development Programme at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Her books include “Race” Panic and the Memory of Migration, co-edited with Brett de Bary (2001); Too Soon, Too Late: History in Popular Culture (1998); and The Pirate’s Fiancée: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism (1988). Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in...
