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  • Contributors
Volume 12

Ian Dennis is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of the Girardian study Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction (St. Martin's Press and Macmillan, 1997) and has published article-length mimetic readings of Sir Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, and other Romantic novelists. His more recent work on the Mimetic Theory and Lord Byron, which makes substantial use of the writings of both René Girard and Eric Gans, has been published in Studies in Romanticism, European Romantic Review, and the Keats-Shelley Journal, and his book Lord Byron and the History of Desire is nearing completion. He is also a novelist with four published titles, the most recent of which is The Emperor's Assassin (Random House, 2003), co-authored under the pseudonym "T. F. Banks."

Scott R. Garrels is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Pasadena, California and Assistant Research Professor in the School of Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary. His doctoral research, Divergent Thinking and Abstract Problem Solving in Children and Adults with Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum, investigated cognitive and psychosocial deficits in individuals with callosal agenesis. He is currently one of the few scholars addressing the parallels between the mimetic theory of religion and empirical research on imitation. As a result of his ongoing efforts to bridge these two fields of research, he was recently awarded a grant from the Templeton Advanced Research Program (2006) entitled Imitation, Mimetic Theory, and Religious and Cultural Evolution. This grant will be used to initiate dialogue between mimetic scholars and imitation researchers.

J. A. Jackson is Assistant Professor of English at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan. His courses and research focus on violence and ethics in Old and Middle English literature, particularly medieval biblical narrative, and he teaches a seminar on Mimetic Theory.

Martin Kevorkian is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches American Literature with a specialization in the American Renaissance. He is the author of Color Monitors: The Black Face of Technology in America (Cornell University Press, 2006), a study of the sacrificial logic that informs popular racialized depictions of computer expertise. He [End Page 275] is at work revising a manuscript, tentatively entitled After Emerson: Prophecy and the Aftermath of the American Renaissance, which examines the tension between literary and ministerial vocations as forgrounded through a series of later works by Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville.

Peter T. Koper is Professor of English at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, where he teaches writing, classical literature in translation, and university program courses in the humanities. His research interests include the history of rhetoric, the work of René Girard, and the American tradition of writing about nature. His most recent articles include studies of grade inflation and grade indexing, the prose style of Meriwether Lewis, and an analysis of Aphrodite as a literary motif in Girardian terms.

Allen H. Redmon is Assistant Professor of English in the School of Humanities at the University of Arkansas at Monticello where he teaches courses in language and linguistics, critical theory, and film. In addition to his work on biblical texts, his research focuses on the place of violence in the genre film and the specific uses to which certain auteurs put violence in their films. He is currently working on a book-length study on the narrative development of the detective film in American in order to consider the genre independent of noir and other crime films.

Lucien Scubla is a researcher in anthropology at CREA, Ecole polytechnique in Paris. In 1998, he published Lire Lévi-Strauss (Editions Odile Jacob), which is an attempt to make a link between structural anthropology and mimetic theory.

Michel Serres—philosopher, scientist and literary scholar—is one of France's most distinguished and accomplished intellectuals. Born in 1930 in Agen, France, he went to naval college in 1949 and to the École Normale Supérieure (rue d'Ulm) in 1952. He obtained an agrégation in philosophy in 1955. From 1956 to 1958 he served on a variety of ships as a marine officer for the French national maritime service. In...

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