Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors Malvern van Wyk Smith is professor and head of the Department of English at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. He has published Drummer Hodge: The Poetry of the AngloBoer War 1899-1902, Shades of Adamastor: Africa and the Portuguese Connection, and Grounds of Contest: A Survey of South African English Literature, as well as articles on the European images of Africa from classical to Victorian times, the metadiscourses of postcolonialism, and South African literature. He was a Rhodes Scholar, and has held visiting fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge. Paul Arthur is senior lecturer in politics at the University of Ulster at Jordanstown in Northern Ireland. He is the author of a number of books and articles on the politics of Ireland. He is completing a book on contemporary Anglo-Irish relations. David Lipscomb wrote the article which appears in this issue while he was a graduate student of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Currently, he teaches full-time at the Trinity School in New York City. Loren Kruger received her BA from the University of Cape Town in South Africa and her PhD in comparative literature from Cornell University. She is the author ofThe National Stage: Theatre and Cultural Legitimation in England, France and America, and translator of Theatre at the Crossroads ofCulture, by Patrick Pavis. She teaches theater and comparative cultural studies at the University of Chicago. Gregory Jusdanis was born in Greece and received his BA from McMaster University in Canada and his PhD from the Center for Byzantine and Hellenic Studies at the University of Birmingham in England. He is the author of a study of Constantine Cavafy, The Poetics of Cavafy: Eroticism, Textuality, History, and ofBelated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture: Inventing National Literature. He is associate professor of modern Greek studies at the Ohio State University . 229 ...