Contributors
- Contributors
Richard Aczel teaches at the English Seminar of the University of Cologne. He is the author of National Character and European Identity in Hungarian Literature 1772–1848 (1996) and has published widely on Central European cultural history. He is currently writing a book on voice and ventriloquism in the later fiction of Henry James.
Richard Harvey Brown is Professor of Sociology and Affiliate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Social Science as Civic Discourse (1989) and Society as Text (1987) and, most recently, Toward a Democratic Science: Scientific Narration and Civic Communication. He is currently completing America in Transit, a study of the United States as a postmodern society.
Albert Cook is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Classics, Emeritus at Brown University. His most recent books are The Burden of Prophecy: Poetic Utterance in the Prophets of the Old Testament (1996), The Future Invests (poems, 1997), and Haiku (poems, 1997). He is working on a study entitled “Imagining Space.”
J. E. Elliott has written widely on literary and cultural theory for Comparative Literature, Word and Image, Studies in Literary Imagination, and the TLS. He is currently completing a book on the sociology of criticism, to which the present article belongs.
Michael Maranda is a doctoral student in the Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester as well as being a practicing visual artist. He is presently working on his dissertation, “The Inevitability of Art History,” a historiographical study of the rhetoric of contemporary art history.
Richard van Oort is a graduate student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. He has published articles on speech-act theory, the theory of fiction, and generative anthropology, and is a regular contributor to Anthropoetics: The Electronic Journal of Generative Anthropology. His current project deals with cybernetics, paradox, and fictionality.
Tzachi Zamir is presently working on his doctoral dissertation on patterns of relations between philosophy and literature in the Department of Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University.
Xudong Zhang is Assistant Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. He is the author of Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms, co-editor of Postmodernism and China, a special issue of boundary 2; and editor of Intellectual Politics in Post-Tiananmen China, a special issue of Social Text. In Chinese he is a translator of Walter Benjamin and Fredric Jameson.
