Contributors
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Ikuho Amano is a native of Osaka, Japan. She is currently an assistant professor of Japanese in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she teaches Japanese literature, civilization, visual culture, film, and language. She obtained her PhD in comparative literature from Penn State University in 2007. Her research interest includes modern Japanese and comparative literatures and literary theory. Currently she is working on her first book, which engages in the relation between literature and the anti-utilitarian practice of economy, with particular emphasis on the idea of decadence and the representation of it in twentieth-century Japanese novels and political discourse.
Jessica Berman is professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is the author of Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of Community (2001) and Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism (2012), editor of A Companion to Virginia Woolf (forthcoming), and coeditor with Jane Goldman of Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds (2001). With Paul Saint-Amour, she also coedits the Modernist Latitudes book series from Columbia University Press.
Bernadette Cailler is a professor emerita at the University of Florida. She has degrees from the Universities of Poitiers, Paris, and a PhD in comparative literature from Cornell. She is a member of the African Literature Association (1975–) and the Conseil international d’études francophones (1987–). She was the recipient of the 1999 Prix Maurice Cagnon (CIEF) for her contributions to francophone studies. She is the author of Proposition poétique: Une lecture de l’œuvre d’Aimé Césaire (1976), Conquérants de la nuit nue: Edouard Glissant et l’H(h)istoire antillaise (1988), and Carthage ou la flamme du brasier: Mémoire et échos chez Virgile, Senghor, Mellah, Ghachem, Augustin, Ammi, Broch, et Glissant (2007). She has published studies on Saint-John Perse, René Depestre, Glissant, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Césaire, V. Y. Mudimbe, Hédi Bouraoui, Léon-Gontran Damas, Simone Weil, Marguerite Yourcenar, Andrée Chedid, Emmanuel Lévinas, Lorand Gaspar, Patrick Chamoiseau, among other authors. Recent and forthcoming articles by her can be found in Research in African Literatures, Œuvres et Critiques, Etudes littéraires, Francofonia, [End Page 560] the Revue des sciences humaines, CMC Editions, and Editions Honoré Champion.
Emron Esplin is an assistant professor of English at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where he teaches U.S. literature and inter-American literary studies. He completed his PhD at Michigan State University in 2008 and then worked as an assistant professor at Kennesaw State University for five years. He was also a faculty member of the International Summer School on the Americas, sponsored by the University of Graz in Austria, from 2008–2012. Esplin’s teaching and his scholarship challenge the national(ist) usage of the term “America,” applying it to the hemisphere rather than solely to the United States of America. His publications include articles on Katherine Anne Porter, Nellie Campobello, Pancho Villa, Edgar Allan Poe, and Jorge Luis Borges. He is currently finishing a book manuscript entitled “Borges’s Poe.”
Keith P. Feldman is an assistant professor of comparative ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published in a variety of academic journals, including Comparative American Studies, CR: New Centennial Review, MELUS, Postmodern Culture, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, and Theory and Event. He is completing a book manuscript entitled “Special Relationships: Israel, Palestine, and U.S. Imperial Culture.”
Madelena Gonzalez is a professor of anglophone literature at the University of Avignon. Her recent publications include Fiction after the Fatwa: Salman Rushdie and the Charm of Catastrophe (2005), Translating Identity and the Identity of Translation (2006), Generic Instability and Identity in the Contemporary Novel (2010), Authenticity and Legitimacy in Minority Theatre: Constructing Identity (2010) and Minority Theatre on the Global Stage: Challenging Paradigms from the Margins (2012). She has published widely on contemporary literature and culture and is currently in charge of the Avignon-based, interdisciplinary research team Cultural Identity, Texts, and Theatricality (Identité culturelle, textes et théâtralité).
Thomas A. Hale is Edwin Erle Sparks professor emeritus of African, French, and comparative literature at Penn State University. He has focused...
