Contributors
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Joseph Wiesenfarth is professor of English emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books include Ford Madox Ford and the Regiment of Women (Wisconsin, 2005) and Gothic Manners and the Classic English Novel (Wisconsin, 1998). In addition to earlier books on Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Henry James, he has published numerous articles on British fiction and edited two collections of essays on Ford Madox Ford. At present he is reediting, from a corrected typescript, No More Parades, the second volume of Ford’s tetralogy Parade’s End, to be reissued by Carcanet Press.
Gerald L. Bruns is William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. His books include On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy: A Guide for the Unruly (Fordham, 2006) and The Material of Poetry: Sketches for a Philosophical Poetics (Georgia, 2005). He has recently published articles on Lyn Hejinian’s A Border Comedy, Theodor W. Adorno’s aesthetic theory, and Jacques Derrida’s autobiographical animal. His current project is titled, “The Elsewhere of Poetry: An Anthropology of Contemporary Poetics.”
Srikanth Reddy, assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago, has published a book of poems, Facts for Visitors (California, 2004), for which he won the Asian American Literary Award for Poetry in 2005. He has published scholarly articles on John Ashbery, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens. His next volume of poetry is titled “Voyager.”
Molly Wallace is assistant professor of English at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. She has published articles on Don DeLillo and Karen Tei Yamashita and is currently at work on a book project on the cultural production of “global” environmental risk in the U.S., from atomic fallout to climate change.
Robin Silbergleid, assistant professor of English at Michigan State University, is the author of a poetry chapbook, Pas de Deux: Prose and Other Poems (Basilisk, 2006), and articles on Carole Maso’s fiction, Ernest Hemingway’s Garden of Eden, and feminist utopian fiction. She is at work on a memoir, “Texas Girl,” and a monograph on Carole Maso.
Colin Gillis is a doctoral candidate in English literature at Yale University. He is writing a dissertation on sexology and modern British fiction.
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, professor of English at Temple University, is the author most recently of Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work (Alabama, 2006) and Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry [End Page 215] (Cambridge, 2001). She is the editor of The Selected Letters of George Oppen (Duke, 1990). Her work in progress includes a third volume of essays.
Matthew Hart is assistant professor of English and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He will be joining the faculty of English and comparative literature at Columbia University on July 1. His published work includes Nations of Nothing but Poetry (Oxford, 2009), articles on contemporary Anglophone fiction, modernism, and contemporary art and architecture, and a special issue of Contemporary Literature (volume 49, number 4), Contemporary Literature and the State, coedited with Jim Hansen. He is working on a book titled “Late Britain.”
Patrick O’Donnell is professor of English at Michigan State University. He is the author of several books and over fifty articles on modern and contemporary American fiction. He has two works forthcoming from Wiley-Blackwell in 2010: he is the author of The Novel Now: Reading American Fiction since 1980 and a co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century American Fiction.
Carol S. Franko is associate professor of English at Kansas State University. She has published several articles on utopian fiction and science fiction writers, among them Nancy Kress, Ursula K. Le Guin, Kim Stanley Robinson, and H. G. Wells. Her current project is on the rhetoric of fantasy in works by Tim Powers. [End Page 216]
