Contributors
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Katarzyna Bartoszyńska is an assistant professor in the Program of Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas at Bilkent University. She works on English, Irish, and Polish literature, focusing on the development of the novel and intersections between culture and history. A piece on the Irish national tale in the aftermath of the Act of Union is forthcoming in New Hibernian Review. She is currently working on a book that examines experiments with fictionality in gothic literature of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Thomas Beebee, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature and German at Penn State University, is the editor in chief of Comparative Literature Studies. His most recent books include Millennial Literatures of the Americas, 1492–2002 (2008), Nation and Region in Modern European and American Fiction (2008), Conjunctions and Disjunctions of German Law and Literature (2011), and Transmesis: Inside Translation’s Black Box (2012). He is currently editing a volume of essays on German literature as world literature.
Roy Benjamin teaches English at Borough of Manhattan Community College. He has published articles on the relation of Finnegans Wake to a variety of subjects in the Journal of Modern Literature, Irish Studies Review, James Joyce Quarterly, and Joyce Studies Annual. He is currently working on a series of articles exploring the relation of the Wake to such subjects as Kierkegaard, ocularcentrism, and ritual.
Nesrine Chahine is a Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Her translation of selections from Ahmad Shawqi’s Death of Cleopatra has appeared in the Norton Critical Edition of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. She is currently completing her dissertation, “Marketplaces of the Modern,” which tracks representations of the city as a marketplace in twentieth-century Egyptian and Anglo-Egyptian literature.
Lorenzo DiTommaso is a professor and the chair of the Department of Religion at Concordia University, Montréal. He specializes in the study of global apocalypticism—ancient, mediaeval, modern and contemporary. [End Page 726] His next book, The Architecture of Apocalypticism, the first volume of a trilogy, is forthcoming from oxford University Press.
Jonathan P. Eburne is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the Pennsylvania State University and Director of Graduate Studies in Comparative Literature. He is the author of Surrealism and the Art of Crime (Cornell, 2008), and co-editor, with Jeremy Braddock, of Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic (Johns Hopkins, 2013). He co-edited special issues of Modern Fiction Studies (2005), New Literary History (2011), African American Review (2009), Comparative Literature Studies (forthcoming 2014), and is also co-editor, with Judith Roof, of a forthcoming volume of essays entitled * This Year’s Work in the Oddball Archives.* Eburne is Co-President of the Association for the Study of Dada and Surrealism, and will be the President of the Association for the Arts of the Present in 2015. He is editor of the book series “Refiguring Modernism” at the Pennsylvania University Press, and the co-editor of ASAP-Journal, to begin publication in 2016. He is currently working on a book called Outsider Theory.
Jennifer L. Geddes is an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia and was the founding editor of The Hedgehog Review: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture. She is the editor of Evil After Postmodernism: Histories, Narratives, Ethics (2001) and The Double Binds of Ethics After the Holocaust: Salvaging the Fragments (2009) with John K. Roth and Jules Simon, as well as numerous essays and book chapters on evil, suffering, and the Holocaust.
Alan Golding is a professor of English at the University of Louisville, where he teaches American literature and twentieth-century poetry and poetics. He is the author of From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry (1995), which won a CHOICE Best Academic Book Award, and of numerous essays on modernist and contemporary poetry. His current projects include “Written into the Future: New American Poetries from the ‘Dial’ to the Digital” under contract with the University of Alabama Press, and “Isn’t the Avant-Garde Always Pedagogical,” a book on experimental poetics and/as pedagogy. He serves on the editorial boards of Contemporary Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, and the University of Alabama...
