Contributors
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Bill Brown is Edward Carson Waller Professor at the University of Chicago, where he teaches in the departments of English and Visual Arts and serves as a coeditor of Critical Inquiry and as a Fellow at the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory. His publications include The Material Unconscious (1996), A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature (2003), and a special issue of Critical Inquiry, “Things,” which was expanded and republished in book form (2004).
Anne Brubaker is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is working on a dissertation that explores the connections among mathematics, contemporary theory, and modernist American fiction. She earned an MA in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex prior to beginning her doctoral studies.
Sara Danius is Professor of Aesthetics at Södertörn University, Sweden. She is the author of The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception, and Aesthetics (2002), The Prose of the World: Flaubert and the Art of Making Things Visible (2006), and, with Hanns Zischler, Nase für Neuigkeiten: Vermischte Nachrichten von James Joyce (2008). Currently she is working on nineteenth-century realism and the history of literary visibility.
Gloria Fisk is Associate Director of the Princeton Writing Program at Princeton University, and she writes about world literature. Her current project is an analysis of the work and international reception of the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk.
Alexander R. Galloway is an author and computer programmer who teaches media studies and critical theory at New York University. His books include Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization (2004), Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture (2006), and, with Eugene Thacker, The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (2007). He was awarded a Golden Nica prize at Ars Electronica in 2002 for his work with the software collective RSG.
Bryan Green is Professor Emeritus in Sociology at York University, Toronto. His research interests are in the intersections of writing style and reading effects, particularly in the writing of sociological theory and of social policy documents, with the aim of promoting critical text analysis in social studies. His publications on the topic include Knowing the Poor (1983), Literary Methods and Sociological Theory (1988), and Gerontology and the Construction of Old Age (1993). [End Page 1017]
David Greven is Assistant Professor of English at Connecticut College. He is the author of Men Beyond Desire: Manhood, Sex, and Violation in American Literature (2005) and Manhood in Hollywood from Bush to Bush (2009). His essays have appeared in such journals as American Quarterly, Studies in American Fiction, Refractory, Genders, Poe Studies, and The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review. His current book project is called Oneness Inscrutable: Hawthorne’s Fiction and Freudian Theory.
Stephan Mussil teaches English literature at the University of Potsdam, Germany. He is the author of Verstehen in der Literaturwissenschaft (2001) and is currently working on a book about Milton’s theodicy, the eighteenth-century novel, and romanticism. Moreover, he is at work on a theory of literary practice, based on Wittgenstein’s method.
Nancy Partner is Professor of History at McGill University. Her research and teaching are in medieval cultural history and general historical theory, especially narrative theory and epistemology, and applications of psychoanalytic theory to history. Her recent publications include: the edited book, Writing Medieval History (2005), to which she contributed the chapter, “The Hidden Self: Psychoanalysis and the Textual Unconscious”; the edited book Re-Figuring Hayden White (forthcoming 2009), to which she contributed “Narrative Persistence: The Post-Postmodern Life of Narrative Theory”; and, with Sarah Foot, The Handbook of Historical Theory (forthcoming 2010).
Dennis Sobolev teaches at the University of Haifa. His academic interests include literary theory, Victorian and modernist poetry, religious literature, and multiculturalism. He is the author, most recently, of the novel Jerusalem (short-listed for the 2006 Russian Booker Prize) and Res Judaica: Jews and Europe, which is devoted to the cultural encounters between Christian and Jewish civilizations (2007). His next books, The Split World of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Ecce Homo: The Concept of Man in the Analysis of Culture, are forthcoming.
Hubert Zapf is Professor of American Literature and Director of the American Studies Program at the University of Augsburg, Germany. His main...
