Notes on Contributors

Karen Bassi, Associate Professor of Classics and Pre- and Early-Modern Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is the author of Acting Like Men: Gender, Drama, and Nostalgia in Ancient Greece (1998). Her current work concerns the concept of home in ancient Greece and the trope of the eyewitness in Greek historiography.

Julie A. Carlson, Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the author of In the Theatre of Romanticism: Coleridge, Nationalism, Women (1994). “Forever Young: Master Betty and the Queer Stage of Youth in English Romanticism” appeared in the summer 1996 issue of SAQ and won the Keats–Shelley Essay Award that year. She is currently writing on Romantic medievalism (with Louise Fradenburg) and on the Wollstonecraft–Godwin–Shelley family.

Joe Cleary teaches Renaissance and postcolonial literature at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. “‘Fork-Tongued on the Border Bit’: Partition and the Politics of Form in Contemporary Narratives of the Northern Irish Conflict” appeared in the winter 1996 issue of SAQ. Partition and Postcolonialism: Literature and Politics in Ireland, Israel, and Palestine is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

Louise O. Fradenburg, Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the author of City, Marriage, Tournament: Arts of Rule in Late Medieval Scotland (1991) and the coeditor (with Carla Freccero) of Premodern Sexualities (1995). Sacrifice Your Love: Psychoanalysis, Historicism, Chaucer is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press.

Lisa A. Freeman, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago, is writing a book on eighteenth-century drama.

Richard Helgerson is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The author of Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England (1992), which won the British Council Prize in the Humanities and the MLA James Russell Lowell Prize, he is currently completing a book on the intersections of home, state, and history in early modern European drama and painting.

Molly Ierulli teaches classics at the University of Southern California and is writing a book on Sophocles.

Tom Mccall, Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of Houston, Clear Lake, has published work on theory, philosophy and literature, Sophocles, and Hölderlin and Benjamin. He is now writing a book that places ancient and modern texts in new juxtapositions through a critical nexus common to both.

D. Vance Smith, Assistant Professor of English at Princeton University and a 1998–99 National Humanities Center Fellow, has published articles on memory, historiography, and medieval economic theory in Middle English texts. He recently completed Book of the Incipit: Piers Plowman and the Beginning of Inscription and is now at work on a book to be entitled Arts of Possession: Exchange, Heraldry, and the Medieval Household Romance.

Samuel Weber, Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Paris Program in Critical Theory at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the founder of Glyph. His publications include Institution and Interpretation (1987), Mass Mediauras: Form, Technics, Media (1996), and (with Hent de Vries) Violence, Identity, and Self-Determination (1997). He is currently writing books on Walter Benjamin and on “theatricality as medium.”

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