Notes on Contributors

Mieke Bal, a well-known cultural critic and theorist, is professor of theory of literature and a founding director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Theory, and Interpretation (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam. She is the author of many books, including Reading “Rembrandt”: Beyond the Word-Image Opposition (1994 [1991]), Double Exposures: The Subject of Cultural Analysis (1996), and The Mottled Screen: Reading Proust Visually (1997). Her latest book is Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History (1999).

Jonathan Culler is professor of English and comparative literature at Cornell University. His books include Structuralist Poetics (1975), Saussure (1976), On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism (1982), and most recently, Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (1997).

Uri Margolin is professor of comparative literature with specialization in literary theory at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. His research interests focus on narratology, discourse analysis, possible worlds semantics, and the use of logical and cognitive models for the analysis of narrative. He has published close to fifty articles in collective volumes and in international journals such as Poetics Today, PTL, Poetics, Language and Literature, Language and Style, Style, Semiotica, and Journal of Literary Semantics.

Brian McHale is Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of American Literature at West Virginia University and coeditor of Poetics Today. He has published two books on postmodernist fiction and numerous essays on narratology and topics in modernism and postmodernism. His most recent articles, on postmodernist poetry, have appeared in New Literary History, the Yearbook of English Studies, and Poetics Today.

Thomas Pavel teaches French, comparative literature, and social thought at the University of Chicago. His books include Fictional World (1986), The Feud of Language: A Critical History of Structuralism (1988), L’art de l’éloignement: Essai sur l’imagination classique (1996), and with Claude Bremond, De Barthes à Balzac: Fictions d’un critique et critiques d’une fiction (1998).

Susan Rubin Suleiman, C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and professor of comparative literature at Harvard University, is the author of Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook (1996) and editor of Exile and Creativity: Signposts, Travelers, Ousiders, Backward Glances (1998), among many other works. She is currently working on a book tentatively titled “Crises of Memory and the Second World War in France.”

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