Contributors to Volume 41
- Contributors to Volume 41
Katrin Berndt is Assistant Professor in British and Anglophone Literatures at the University of Bremen. The author of Female Identity in Contemporary Zimbabwean Fiction (Bayreuth 2005), she co-edited Words and Worlds: African Writing, Literature, and Society (with Susan Arndt, Africa World Press 2007), and Heroism in the Harry Potter Series (with Lena Steveker, Ashgate 2011). At present, she is writing a monograph on friendship in the British novel of the eighteenth century.
Dorothee Birke is junior research fellow in English literature at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) at Freiburg University, Germany. She specializes in narratology and the history of the novel and is currently preparing a book on representations of reading in the English novel from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. She is the author of Memory’s Fragile Power: Crises of Memory, Identity and Narrative in Contemporary British Novels (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2008) and has edited with Michael Butter and Tilmann Köppe Counterfactual Thinking--Counterfactual Writing (de Gruyter, 2011). She is also working on an edited volume (with Stella Butter) entitled Realisms in Contemporary Culture.
David A. Brewer is Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University and the author of The Afterlife of Character, 1726–1825 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005). He is currently working on the uses to which authorial names were put in the eighteenth-century Anglophone world. His edition of The Rivals and Polly Honeycombe is forthcoming from Broadview.
Jennifer Germann is Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College and her research centers on issues of gender and visual culture in early modern Europe. She has published essays on the representation of Anne of Austria, Marie Leszczinska, and Madame de Pompadour. She is currently working on a project investigating the queen’s bedchamber at Versailles from a material cultural perspective.
Zeina Hakim is Assistant Professor of French at Tufts University. She works primarily on the French novel in the Enlightenment, as well as on cultural history and historiography in early modern France. She has published articles on Diderot, Rousseau, literature and aesthetics, and women’s studies. Her book Fictions déjouées. Le récit en trompe-l’œil au XVIIIe siècle is forthcoming (Droz, 2012). [End Page 255]
Julie Henigan obtained her Ph.D. in English and Irish Studies in 2009 from the University of Notre Dame. She has published a variety of articles on British and Irish literature, as well as on traditional Irish song. Her book Literacy and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Irish Song is forthcoming (Pickering and Chatto, 2012).
Sandro Jung is Research Professor of Early Modern British Literature and Culture and the Director of the Centre for the Study of Text and Print Culture at Ghent University. The editor of Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Journal of the Printing Historical Society, he is also the director of the four-year funded projects “Genettian Theories of Para- and Hypotextuality and Thomson’s The Seasons” (2011–2014) and “The Translation, Cultural Mediation, and Reception in Britain of Rousseau’s Discours sur les Sciences et les Arts” (2012–2015). He has published widely on eighteenth-century literature. His most recent monographs are: David Mallet, Anglo-Scot: Poetry, Politics and Patronage in the Age of Union (University of Delaware Press, 2008) and The Fragmentary Poetic: Eighteenth-Century Uses of an Experimental Mode (Lehigh University Press, 2009). His most recent book, James Thomson’s ‘The Seasons’, Print Culture, and Visual Interpretation, 1730–1842, is forthcoming, and he is completing a book on the paratexts of Spenserian editions in the eighteenth century for Manchester University Press.
Catherine Keohane is Assistant Professor of English at Montclair State University, where she teaches writing and literature courses, and also serves as Assistant Director for Placement. She has published articles in ELH, Studies in the Novel, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, and WPA. Her current book project examines eighteenth-century depictions of charity in didactic and imaginative literature to explore the implications of form for promoting and challenging gender and class ideology.
Marc H. Lerner is Associate Professor of History at the University of Mississippi and the author of A Laboratory of Liberty: The Transformation of...
