Contributors
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Jean-Pierre Cavaillé is Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where he teaches in the area of intellectual and cultural history. His most recent publication is Postures libertines: La Culture des esprits forts (2011).
Kirk Combe is Professor of English at Denison University in Ohio. He teaches and researches in the areas of early modern British satire and drama, critical and cultural theory, and popular culture. He is the author of a number of books and articles, including A Martyr for Sin: Rochester's Critique of Polity, Sexuality, and Society (University of Delaware Press) and Theorizing Satire: Essays in Literary Criticism (St. Martin's Press). He has also published short fiction, and his first novel, entitled 2084, appeared in 2009.
Pol Dehert is a theater and film director. He is a lecturer and researcher in the performing arts section of the RITS department of the Erasmus University College Brussels, where he trains young actors and directors. Dehert subsequently acted as artistic director of Arca N.E.T (Ghent) and Noordelijke Theatervoorziening (Groningen) and director and dramaturge at Theater Teater (Mechelen). He also directed two award-winning art films, Art Nouveau and Oedipe et le Sphinx.
Paolo Fasoli is Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has published on medieval, Renaissance, and baroque literature. With Andrea Fedi (SUN Y-Stony Brook), he is the author of Mercurio (2005). He is currently editing the English translation of selected works by Ferrante Pallavicino. [End Page 157]
Catherine Ingrassia is Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the author or editor of five books including Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England (1998), an edition of Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela (2001), and, with Paula Backscheider, British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century (2009). Currently, she is editing the Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in Britain, 1660-1789 and working on a study of women, poetry, and print culture in the long eighteenth century.
Inger Leemans is Professor of cultural history at the VU University of Amsterdam. She has written about early modern (Dutch) cultural history, specifically about the history of pornography, (radical) Enlightenment, and the early modern novel. Her interest in cultural economy has resulted in research about censorship, journalism, cultural transfer, the business of the Enlightenment, the pursuit of knowledge in prints, and the literary "bubble" that accompanied the South Sea Bubble of the 1720s. She is currently finishing a book, The translation machine, on the Dutch-German cultural exchange 1750-1840, in which she explores the economics of cultural transfer and its effects on national imagery and cultural memory.
Mary Katherine Matalon is a graduate student in the department of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Her areas of research include gender and sexuality, the history of women, and visual culture in the new republic.
Klaas Tindemans is a PhD in law and he works as teacher and researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and at the RITS department for drama and audiovisuals arts of the Erasmus University College in Brussels, where he also coordinates the research program. As a guest professor, he teaches at theater schools in Antwerp and Tilburg, and at the University of Antwerp. His play Bulger (2006) was awarded the 'Förderpreis für neue Dramatik' at the Theatertreffen in Berlin. Tindemans publishes about legal-philosophical issues, politics and theatricality, ancient tragedy, contemporary (documentary) theater, and cultural policy. [End Page 158]
Karel Vanhaesebrouck is Assistant Professor of cultural studies at Maastricht University and a part-time professor of theater studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He also teaches cultural history and theater history at the RITS department of the Erasmus University College Brussels, where he coordinates the performing arts section. He recently published the book-length volume Le mythe de l'authenticité. Lectures, dramaturgies, représentations de Britannicus en France (2009) and edited, together with Ruben De Roo and Lieven De Cauter, the volume Art and activism in the age of globalization (2011). His scholarly worked has been published in academic journals such as Poetics Today, Textyles...
