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  • Contributors

Joshua Gass is a doctoral candidate at Ohio State University, where he teaches in the English and Comparative Studies departments. His research interests include philosophy, genre fiction, and the early novel, and his dissertation examines representations of evil in eighteenth-century narrative.

Graham Harman is Distinguished University Professor at the American University in Cairo. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Bells and Whistles: More Speculative Realism (2013) and Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy (2012).

Ian Hodder obtained his PhD at Cambridge University in 1975 and taught there from 1977 to 1999, when he moved to teach at Stanford University as Dunlevie Family Professor in the Department of Anthropology. His main books include Spatial Analysis in Archaeology (1976), Symbols in Action (1982), Reading the Past (1986), The Domestication of Europe (1990), The Archaeological Process (1999), The Leopard’s Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Çatalhöyük (2006), and Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things (2012).

Bruno Latour is a professor at Sciences Po in Paris and has published extensively in the domain of science studies and more generally on the anthropology of modernism. He is the author and editor of many books including, most recently, We Have Never Been Modern (1993), Iconoclash (2002), Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy (2004), Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy (2005), Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory (2005), On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods (2010), and An Inquiry into Modes of Existence (2013). All references can be found on his Web site www.bruno-latour.fr.

Günter Leypoldt is a Professor of American Literature at the University of Heidelberg, the author of Cultural Authority in the Age of Whitman: A Transatlantic Perspective (2009), and editor of American Cultural Icons: The Production of Representative Lives (2010). He is presently working on a study of literary and cultural charisma.

Hanna Meretoja is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Tampere, Adjunct Professor and Research Fellow at the University of Turku, and Visiting Professor at the American University of Paris (2013–14). Her research focuses on the interrelations between literature, philosophy, and history. Her forthcoming book The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory: The Crisis and Return of Storytelling from Robbe-Grillet to Tournier as well as several of her articles deal with the philosophical and historical underpinnings of different conceptions of narrative. [End Page 153]

Ben Parker received his PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and teaches English literature at several colleges in New York City. His critical project is to construct a history of recognition scenes in the novel which is also a materialist theory of “barred” modes of subjectivity.

Dora Zhang holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and will be Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California-Berkeley in the fall of 2014. Her previous work (on Proust and photography) has appeared in Representations, and her current book project centers on problems of description in Anglo-American and European modernism. [End Page 154]

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