Notes on Contributors

César Aira, novelist, dramatist, essayist, and translator, is the author of more than thirty books, including, in English translation, The Literature Conference, The Two Clowns, and Argentina: The Great Estancias. New Directions will publish a series of his novels in translation, beginning with An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (scheduled for spring 2006) and How I Became a Nun (fall 2006). Chris Andrews received the Premio Valle Inclán Prize for his translation of Roberto Bolaño's novel Distant Star. He is also the author of Poetry and Cosmogony: Science in the Writing of Queneau and Ponge and two books of poetry, Cut Lunch and Septuor.

Sir John Boardman, Lincoln Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology Emeritus at Oxford University, is editor of the Oxford History of Classical Art and the author of, most recently, The History of Greek Vases and The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity. Currently based at the Ashmolean Museum, he is a fellow of the British Academy.

Sissela Bok, the author of Lying, Secrets, Mayhem, Common Values, A Strategy for Peace, and Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir, is a senior visiting fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.

Caroline Walker Bynum, formerly a MacArthur Fellow, is professor of medieval European history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and University Professor Emerita at Columbia. Her books include Jesus as Mother; Holy Feast and Holy Fast; Fragmentation and Redemption; Metamorphosis and Identity; and The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336.

Sharon Cameron is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her books include Beautiful Work: A Meditation on Pain, Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre, Choosing Not Choosing: Emily Dickinson's Fascicles, The Corporeal Self: Allegories of the Body in Melville and Hawthorne, Writing Nature: Henry Thoreau's Journal, and Thinking in Henry James.

Isabel Colegate is the author of A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits, Solitaries, and Recluses, as well as several best-selling novels, including The Shooting Party, Winter Journey, The Summer of the Royal Visit, and The Orlando Trilogy.

Helen Cooper holds the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at Cambridge University. Her most recent book is The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare.

William Dalrymple, fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Asiatic Society, is the author of White Mughals, which received the Wolfson Prize for History in 2003. His other books include In Xanadu, City of Djinns, From the Holy Mountain, and The Age of Kali. He also wrote and presented "Stones of the Raj" and "Indian Journeys," which won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2002.

Natalie Zemon Davis's books include The Return of Martin Guerre, Fiction in the Archives, Society and Culture in Early Modern France, Women on the Margins, Slaves on Screen, and, most recently, The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France. She is the Henry Charles Lea Professor Emerita of History at Princeton University and adjunct professor of history, anthropology, and medieval studies at the University of Toronto, where she is also a senior fellow in the Center for Comparative Literature.

Caryl Emerson is the A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at Princeton. She is coauthor of Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics and has also written on Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, the Russian critical tradition, and Russian music.

Joseph Frank's five-volume biography of Dostoevsky received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association, and the Christian Gauss Prize of Phi Beta Kappa. He is professor emeritus of Slavic and comparative literature at Stanford University and professor emeritus of comparative literature at Princeton University.

Susan Gubar, Distinguished Professor of English and Women's Studies at Indiana University, is the author of Critical Condition and...