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  • Contributors

Kenneth Berri earned his PhD in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, where he has also taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor. His research interests focus on intersections of art, philosophy and literature in 18th-century thought. He has published on topics ranging from Montaigne to Jules Verne, and, with Elisabeth Giansiracusa, has co-authored an Italian language textbook, In giro per la letteratura. His translation of Lyotard’s “Futilité en révolution” appears in Toward the Postmodern (1999). He is currently working on a book on the representation of desire in Diderot’s Salons.

Claire Colebrook is the author of New Literary Histories (1997) and Ethics and Representation (1999). She has also published articles on Blake, Derrida, Irigaray and Deleuze. With Ian Buchanan, she has edited Deleuze and Feminist Theory (2000). Her third book, on irony, is due off the press in 2001. She teaches in the Department of English Studies at Stirling University, Scotland.

Solange Guénoun is Associate Professor of French at the University of Connecticut. Her books include Archaïque Racine (1993) and Mélancolie de Racine: le cygne poétique et clinique entre rature et signature (forthcoming, 2001). She is currently finishing a Doctorat de Psychanalyse et Psychopathie at the Université de Paris XIII.

Richard House is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, and a Marion L. Brittain Teaching Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The present article is taken from his dissertation, “Hopeful Monsters: Literary Complexity and Contemporary Narratives of Information.”

James H. Kavanagh, author of Emily Brontë (Blackwell), has taught at Princeton, Wesleyan and Carnegie Mellon Universities. His publications on literature, literary and cultural theory, and on film, have appeared in a wide range of academic journals and collections. He is presently an unaffiliated scholar living in New York.

Hebert Benítez Pezzolano is Professor of Literary Theory at the Instituto de Profesores “Artigas” de Montevideo and of Uruguayan and Latin American Literature at the Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación (Universidad de la República, Uruguay). He has published, among other books, Eclipses del sentido (cinco ensayos descentrados sobre literatura uruguaya) (1996), Poetas uruguayos de los ‘60 (1997) and Vicente Huidobro y el vuelo de Altazor (1997). In 1998 he was awarded the First Prize for Unpublished Essays by the Ministerio de Educación y Cultura of Uruguay. [End Page 128]

Jacques Rancière has taught since 1969 in the Philosphy Department of l’Université de Paris-VIII, and has occupied the Chair of Professor of Esthetics and Politics since 1990. He was one of the forces behind the journal Révoltes logiques from 1975-1986, and was Director of Programs at the International College of Philosophy from 1986-1992. He has published extensively on problems of ideology, language-events, social history, and historiography. A growing number of his books have been translated into English.

Philip Watts is Associate Professor of French at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Allegories of the Purge: How Literature Responded to the Trials of Fascists and Collaborators in France (Stanford UP, 1998). [End Page 129]

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