Contributors
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Alexander J. Beecroft is associate professor of classics and comparative literature, and director of the comparative literature program, at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Authorship and Cultural Identity in Early Greece and China: Patterns of Literary Circulation (2010). His next project, "An Ecology of Verbal Art: Literature and Its Worlds, from Local to Global," explores problems of the adaptation of literatures to their environments from a transhistorical and cross-cultural perspective. He is the recipient of a Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship in the Humanities for 2011-2012.
Marshall Brown is professor of comparative literature at the University of Washington and editor of Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History. He has written five books on European literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with special emphasis on the intersection of form with literary and cultural history. His latest book is a collection of previously published and new studies entitled "The Tooth That Nibbles at the Soul": Essays on Music and Poetry (2010). Two future books under way are "How Do Poems Think?" and "The Romance of Real Life: On the Form of Nineteenth-Century Fiction."
Gerry Canavan teaches twentieth and twenty-first-century literature in the English department at Marquette University. His research primarily concerns the relationship between science fiction and the political and cultural history of the twentieth century. He is the coeditor of the recent issue of Polygraph on ecology and ideology, as well as coeditor of a special issue of American Literature on speculative fiction and the forthcoming Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction, from Wesleyan University Press.
Jing Chen is an assistant researcher and assistant dean of the Institute of Arts and Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and postdoctoral fellow of the Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University. She works on contemporary literary studies and on cultural and media studies. Her published papers in Chinese include "Traditional Recurrence as a Kind of New Literary: Cultural Interpretation of Contemporary Predicament of Network Literature" (2009); "As Mass Narrative and Critics for Society: Construction of the Cyborg Mythology" (2009); "We Are Cyborgs: The [End Page 657] Cultural Spectacle in Age of Information" (2009); "From Culturalism to Discourse Turn: Stuart Hall and the Transformation of Paradigm in Cultural Studies" (2009); and "Towards an Ontology of Media: In Honor of Friedrich A. Kittler" (2012).
Richard J. Cohen is associated with the Asia Institute and lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on the cultural history of medieval South Asia, with particular interest in linguistic and literary transformation during the Sultanate period.
Mark Goble is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the connections between literature and other media technologies from the late nineteenth century to the present. He is the author of Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life (2010).
Chengzhou He has a PhD from the University of Oslo and is a professor of English and drama at Nanjing University, China, and president of the International Ibsen Committee. He is the author of Henrik Ibsen and Modern Chinese Drama (2004), Representation of the Other (2009), and The Nordic Canon: Ibsen, Strindberg and Hamsun (2009). His articles have appeared in such international journals as Modern Language Quarterly, Neohelicon, Comparative Drama, Ibsen Studies, Perspectives: Studies on Translatology, as well as other international and Chinese academic journals.
Peter Howarth is a senior lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London, author of British Poetry in the Age of Modernism (2006) and The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry (2011). He is the recipient of awards from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy, and his articles and reviews have appeared in PMLA, Textual Practice, and the London Review of Books.
Yiju Huang is an assistant professor at Bowling Green State University. She received her PhD in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with distinction. She works in the fields of psychoanalysis, trauma theory, Buddhism, modern Chinese literature and Chinese language cinema. She is currently finishing up a paper on an intercultural...
