About the Authors
- About the Authors
Derek Attridge teaches English and Related Literature at the University of York, England. His books include Well-weighed Syllables: Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres; Peculiar Language: Literature as Difference from the Renaissance to James Joyce; Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction; J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading; The Singularity of Literature; and How to Read Joyce. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation.
Dianne Dugaw is Professor of English at the University of Oregon. She has written on topics in folklore, literary history, eighteenth-century studies, and women's and gender studies, including Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650-1850; The Anglo-American Ballad; and "Deep Play"—John Gay & the Invention of Modernity. In addition, she has recorded two CDs: Dangerous Examples—Fighting & Sailing Women in Song and, with Amanda Powell and Dorothy Attneave, The Aunties' Song Kettle—Songs for Kids of All Ages (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/dugaw).
Emily Greenwood is Lecturer in Greek at the University of St. Andrews. Her recent publications include Thucydides and the Shaping of History and various articles on the reception of Classics in the Caribbean. She is co-editor, with Barbara Graziosi, of Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon, and, with Liz Irwin, of Reading Herodotus: A Study of the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus' Histories. She is currently writing a book entitled Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Classics and Caribbean Literature.
Bruce Johnson, formerly Professor of English, University of New South Wales, is now Adjunct Professor, Contemporary Music Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney; Honorary Professor, Music, University of Glasgow; and Visiting Professor, Cultural History, University of Turku. His publications include The Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz, and The Inaudible Music: Jazz, Gender, and Australian Modernity. His research lies in acoustic cultural history and the role of sound and music in the emergence of the modern era. With Martin Cloonan of Glasgow University, he has recently completed Dark Side of the Tune: Music and Violence.
Chris Jones is Senior Lecturer in English poetry at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth-century Poetry. In 2006 Jones was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to work on a history of verse lineation in English.
Alice Jorgensen is Lecturer in English to 1500 at Trinity College, Dublin. She has published on Wulfstan's Sermo Lupi ad Anglos and on The Battle of Maldon. Her edited volume on the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is forthcoming from Brepols. She is currently working on a monograph on the representation of violence in the literatures of Anglo-Saxon England.
James Mulholland is Assistant Professor of English at Wheaton College (Massachusetts). His current research examines the connection between oral culture and the emergence of poetic voice in eighteenth-century Britain. It analyzes a century-long experiment with the printed representation of performing voices. His work has appeared in English Literary History and Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture.
Andy Orchard is Professor of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, and currently Provost and Vice-Chancellor of Trinity College. He is a former Reader in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at the University of Cambridge, and has written widely in those areas, as well as in the field of Medieval Latin. He is currently completing a translation of the Poetic Edda for Penguin Classics, as well as books on Cynewulf, Wulfstan, and the Anglo-Saxon riddle tradition.
Patricia Parker, Margery Bailey Professor in English and Dramatic Literature at Stanford University, is the author of Inescapable Romance; Literary Fat Ladies: Rhetoric, Gender, Property; and Shakespeare from the Margins. She is co-editor of Shakespeare and the Question of Theory; Lyric Poetry: Beyond New Criticism; Women, "Race," and Writing in the Early Modern Period; and other critical volumes. She is currently preparing a new Arden 3 edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Tom Pettitt is Associate Professor at the Institute for Literature, Media, and Cultural Studies, University of Southern Denmark, where he lectures on late medieval and early modern literature and culture, as well as more recent folk traditions. He...
