Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Stephen Auerbach is an Assistant Professor of History at Georgia College and State University. He is currently working on a monograph on eighteenth-century Bordeaux that explores the connections between provincial enlightenment culture, the slave trade, and origins of the French Revolution.
Vera J. Camden is Professor of English at Kent State University and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center. She is coeditor of American Imago: Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences. She is editor of Trauma and Transformation: The Political Progress of John Bunyan (Stanford UP, 2007). She is a member of the Committee on Research and Special Training of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Founding Chair of the CORST Essay Prize in Psychoanalysis and Culture.
Raymond-Jean Frontain edits ANQ: American Notes and Queries, and is a professor of English at the University of Central Arkansas, where he teaches a course on AIDS and Cultural Renewal. His essay in this issue is an expanded version of the public lecture that he delivered in October 2007 at the opening of the McGehee Archive at the University of Saskatchewan.
Yelena Furman teaches in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Her dissertation was titled “Writing the Body in New Women’s Prose: Sexuality and Textuality in Contemporary Russian Fiction,” and she has published on writing the body in post-Soviet film in Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema. Her current research focuses on Russian-American fiction.
Spencer Hawkins has published poetry in the German language and critical work about German literature. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Classics Department awarded him a prize for his creative translations of ancient Greek fragments. He earned a BA with honors from University of California, Berkeley, and is currently a graduate student in comparative literature at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Cary Howie is Assistant Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University, where he teaches medieval French and Italian literature, critical theory, and gender studies. He is the author of Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in Medieval Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and coauthor, with William Burgwinkle, of the forthcoming Sanctity and Pornography in Medieval Culture: On the Verge (Manchester UP, 2010).
Todd Kennedy is a postdoctoral fellow at Tulane University where he teaches English and film. He earned his PhD in twentieth-century American literature and film at the [End Page 160] University of South Carolina and his MA at New York University. A former chair of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association’s Hemingway Society, Kennedy has published on Robert Altman, Ang Lee, and Bob Dylan. He is currently working on an article about Sofia Coppola and a book project tentatively titled “Hitting the American Highway: The Ontology of the Hobo-Hero in Twentieth-Century American Culture.”
Kristi L. Krumnow is a Visiting Assistant Professor of French at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. Her comparatist areas of interest and research are women’s studies, gender studies, queer studies, psychoanalysis, the early form of the novel, and the eighteenth century. She is currently working on the intersection of torture and the Marquis de Sade.
Patrick Lawrence is currently aa doctoral candidate in English at the University of Connecticut, focusing on American postmodernism and deconstruction. His past research has included work on the intergeneric tendencies operating between Shakespeare’s tragedies and comedies and an analysis of the semiotic functioning of deductive reasoning in the television show Law and Order. He is also the author of two novels and the publisher of Replenishment Books, a literary micropress whose first book was a bilingual edition of fragments by Raymond Federman.
Paul Allen Miller is Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics, Classical Tradition, Critical Theory, Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina and the editor of the Transactions of the American Phililogical Association. His books, Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness: The Birth of a Genre from Archaic Greece to Augustan Rome (1994), Latin Erotic Elegy: An Anthology and Critical Reader (2002), and Latin Verse Satire: An Anthology and Critical Reader (2005) were published by Routledge. Subjecting Verses: Latin Love Elegy and the Emergence of the Real was published by Princeton UP (2004). Postmodern Spiritual Practices: The Reception of...
