Contributors
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David Bleich teaches literary and language theory, literature, criticism, film studies, gender studies, science studies, and Jewish studies in the English Department of the University of Rochester. His books include Readings and Feelings (1975); Subjective Criticism (1978); Utopia: The Psychology of a Cultural Fantasy (1984); The Double Perspective (1988); Know and Tell (1998); and Personal Effects (edited with Deborah Holdstein, 2002).
Laurence J. Kirmayer is James McGill Professor and Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Transcultural Psychiatry and has a research program on the anthropology of psychiatry, models of mental health services for multicultural societies, and the roots of resilience among indigenous peoples. He has written extensively on illness narratives and the rule of metaphor in psychiatric theory and practice and is completing a book entitled Healing and the Invention of Metaphor: Toward a Poetics of Illness Experience.
Seth Lerer is Avalon Foundation Professor in Humanities and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. His most recent books include Error and the Academic Self (2002), which won the 2005 Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association, and Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language (2007). He is currently completing a history of children’s literature.
Eric Livingston is a Lecturer in the School of Social Science at the University of New England in Armidale, NSW, Australia. He is the author of An Anthropology of Reading (1995) on the lay and professional practices of reading as well as Making Sense of Ethnomethodology (1987) and The Ethnomethodological Foundations of Mathematics (1986). He is currently bringing together a collection of ethnographically oriented studies that examine reasoning as behavior emerging from, embedded in, and idiosyncratic to situations of social interaction.
John D. Lyons is Commonwealth Professor of French and Chair of the Department of French at the University of Virginia. His most recent book is Before Imagination: Embodied Thought from Montaigne to Rousseau (2005). In 2002–03, he was a Contemplative Practice Fellow (in the program jointly sponsored by the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and the ACLS). He is currently working on a book on chance and accident in early-modern thought.
Cheryl Mattingly is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. She has written about the intersection between healing and narrative from phenomenological and literary perspectives. Her publications include Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: The Narrative Structure of Experience (1998) and a co-edited volume, Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing (2000). Currently, she is working on a book entitled Vulnerable Acts: The Fate of Dreams and the Practice of Future Time, based on a study of African-American families caring for children with severe and chronic illnesses.
David B. Morris is University Professor at the University of Virginia. He has written numerous essays and two prize-winning books on British literature, including Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense (1984). The Culture of Pain (1991), which won a PEN prize, initiated his work in biocultural studies—an approach he explored further in Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age (1998) as well as in Narrative, Pain, and Suffering (2005), an interdisciplinary collection that he co-edited with pain specialists Daniel B. Carr and John D. Loeser.
Gregory Orr is a poet and Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved (2005). He also recently published a memoir, The Blessing (2002), and a book about the personal lyric, Poetry as Survival (2002). He is currently working on a book about the social and political dimension of the personal lyric entitled Poetry as Passion.
Brian Stock is Distinguished Professor of History and Literature in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. He published Bibliothèques intérieures in 2005 and is presently revising his Jerusalem Lectures on the history of reading.
