Contributors
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Abigail Alexander just completed her second year of graduate school in the French section of the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University. She aims to specialize in nineteenth-century studies, concentrating particularly upon the overlapping ripples emanating from the works of Victor Hugo and Edgar Allan Poe.
Alina Cherry received her PhD in French from New York University in 2009. She is Assistant Professor of French at Wayne State University. Her research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century French literature, narration and temporality, and the intersection of philosophy and literature. She is currently working on a book manuscript that explores the concept of temporality in the novels of Claude Simon.
Jonathan Culler, author of Flaubert: The Uses of Uncertainty (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1974), has published extensively on contemporary literary theory and criticism. His Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford UP, 2000) has been translated into twenty languages, including Tamil, Latvian, Albanian, Macedonian, and Kurdish. He is completing a book entitled Theory of the Lyric.
Emine Fisek holds a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of California-Berkeley and will begin teaching in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Bogazici University this fall. Her research is on the relationship between theatre, immigration and humanitarianism in contemporary France and she has published in Theatre Journal and Theatre Research International.
Christian Kittery's research focuses on French colonialism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His dissertation explores the relations between the literary genre of the prehistoric novel and the historical context of the anthropological parks in Paris.
Tatiana Korneeva is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin. She studied Classical Philology and Comparative Literature at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, [End Page 977] and the University of Lausanne. Her research interests include gender and cultural studies, eighteenth-century theatre and literary theory, and fairytales studies. She is the author of Alter et ipse: identità e duplicità nel sistema dei personaggi della Tebaide di Stazio (2011). Her articles have appeared in German Life and Letters, Marvels and Tales, Maia, and Studi Classici e Orientali.
John Lewis is Senior Lecturer in French at Queen's University Belfast. He obtained his PhD at University College London, and specializes in the literature and culture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France. His research interests are French humanism, particularly Rabelais, and the impact of Copernican astronomy on French writers. He has published many articles on Rabelais, Ramón Lull, Ronsard, Mersenne and Galileo, including two monographs, Adrien Turnèbe, A Humanist Observed (Geneva, 1998) and Galileo in France (New York, 2006).
Rebecca Loescher is a PhD student at Johns Hopkins University and is primarily interested in contemporary French literature, autobiographic forms of writing, Gender Studies, Postmodern theory, and World literature.
Azucena Macho Vargas is Professor of French Philology at the University of Saragossa, where she teaches French literature and civilization. French novelists of the period between the wars such as Emmanuel Bove, André Beucler and Eugène Dabit are the principal objects of her research, but she is also the author of publications on Albert Cohen and Albert Memmi. She is a member of a research group working on the analysis of space in French and Francophone literature.
Armine Kotin Mortimer, Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the author of seven books, including a book-length study of Sollers's Paradis published in L'Infini in 2004. For Love or for Money: Balzac's Rhetorical Realism (Ohio State, 2011) is her most recent book. The French government honored her as Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 2009.
John O'Brien is Professor of French Renaissance Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is most recently the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Rabelais (CUP, 2011) and is currently working on a monograph contracted with Editions Garnier and entitled, "La Chaleur de la narration": Le cas Martin Guerre entre histoire et récit.
J. Brandon Pelcher is a PhD student in the German Program at Johns Hopkins University and holds a MA in Comparative Literature from the...
