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  • Contributors

Katherine Mannheimer completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Yale University this past May, and will begin work as an Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester in September.

Christopher Wise is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Western Washington University. He is the editor of The Desert Shore: Literatures of the Sahel (Lynne Rienner, 2001) and Yambo Ouologuem: Postcolonial Writer, Islamic Militant (Lynne Rienner, 1999). Wise translated Norbert Zongo’s novel, The Parachute Drop (Africa World Press, 2004). He published essays in Diacritics, Calallo, Research In African Literatures, and other journals.

Liangyan Ge received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Indiana University and is currently Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Out of the Margins: The Rise of Chinese Vernacular Fiction. Other publications include articles in The Journal of Asian Studies; Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews; Tamkang Review; The Comparatist; Comparative Civilization Review; and Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory.

Claire Lindsay teaches and researches Latin American literature and culture at University College London. She is author of Locating Latin American Women Writers (2003) and co-editor of special issues of Studies in Travel Writing and Tesserae: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. She published articles on Latin American women writers and the travel writing of Frances Calderón de la Barca and Julio Cortázar.

Elisabeth Däumer is Professor of English and American literature at Eastern Michigan University. Her essays on T. S. Eliot have appeared in English Literary History (ELH) and in T. S. Eliot: Gender, Sexuality, Desire, edited by Cassandra Laity and Nancy Gish (Cambridge UP, 2005). Together with Shyamal Bagchee, Elisabeth Däumer is currently co-editing a collection of essays on T.S. Eliot’s International Reception (Continuum, forthcoming in 2007).

M. L. Stapleton is Chapman Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University, FortWayne. He is the author of several articles and books on early modern literature: Harmful Eloquence: Ovid’s“Amores” [End Page 216] from Antiquity to Shakespeare (1996); Thomas Heywood’s Art of Love (2000); Fated Sky: The Femina Furens in Shakespeare (2000); Admired and Understood: The Poetry of Aphra Behn (2004). He is also the editor of Julius Caesar: A New Variorum Edition, in progress.

George F. Butler is an independent scholar and repeat contributor to Comparative Literature Studies. His work has appeared in a wide range of journals, including Forum Italicum, Quaderni d’italianistica, Éire-Ireland, Philosophical Quarterly, Classical and Modern Literature, and Milton Studies.

Julie Prandi, received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, is Professor of German at Illinois Wesleyan University. Coeditor of a volume on Felix Mendelssohn, she is the author of the volumes Spiritied Women Heroes (1983) and “Dare to Be Happy”: A Study of Goethe’s Ethics (1990).

Gabeba Baderoon received her Ph.D. from the University of Cape Town. She writes on race, art and representations of Islam. She received the DaimlerChrysler Award for Poetry 2005.

Olga Hasty is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. She is the author of Pushkin’s Tatiana, Tsvetaeva’s Orphic Journeys in the Worlds of the Word and (with Susanne Fusso) co-editor and translator of America Through Russian Eyes.

William J. Kennedy is Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University and the author of The Site of Petrarchism: Early Modern National Sentiment in Italy, France, and England.

Karen M. Morin is Associate Professor of Geography at Bucknell University.

Thomas O. Beebee is Professor of Comparative Literature & German at Pennsylvania State University. His publications include the books Clarissa on the Continent, The Ideology of Genre, and Epistolary Fiction in Europe.

Marguerite Itamar Harrison is Assistant Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Smith College. She published articles in CiberLetras: [End Page 217] Journal of Literary Criticism and Culture, Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea, Latin American Literary Review, Luso-Brazilian Review and Revue Lusotopie.

Alexander C. Y. Huang is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and the Coordinator of Chinese Program at Penn State University. He contributed to Shakespeare Yearbook, Asian Theatre Journal, Shakespeare Bulletin, Perspectives: Studies in Translatology. He has been...

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