Contributors
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Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor of English at Zurich University. She is the author of Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic (1992), The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and its Discontents (1998), Sylvia Plath (1998), and Home in Hollywood (forthcoming 2004). She is currently working on a cultural history of the night.
Simon Critchley is Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York, and at the University of Essex. He is also Directeur de Programme at the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris. He is author and editor of many books, most recently On Humour (2002). His next book, Things Merely Are on the poetry of Wallace Stevens, will be out later this year.
Joshua Foa Dienstag is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Dancing in Chains: Narrative and Memory in Political Theory (1997) as well as articles on Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and American political thought. He is currently completing a book entitled The Pessimistic Spirit: The Past and Future of an Untimely Ethic.
Page DuBois teaches classics, comparative literature, and cultural studies in the Literature Department of the University of California at San Diego. Her publications include Centaurs and Amazons (1982), Sowing the Body (1988), Torture and Truth (1991), Sappho is Burning (1995), and Trojan Horses: Saving the Classics from Conservatives. Her most recent book is Slaves and Other Objects (2003).
Terry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of almost forty books of literary criticism and political and cultural theory, the most recent of which are Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic (2003) and After Theory (2003). He has also written stage, television, and radio plays produced in Ireland and London and is the author of the screenplay of Derek Jarman’s film Wittgenstein (1993).
Heather K. Love is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsyl-vania where she teaches gender studies, critical theory, and twentieth-century literature and culture. She is co-editor of a special issue of New Literary History called “Is There Life After Identity Politics?” (Fall 2000) and the author of several articles on queer, feminist, and transgender issues. She is currently working on a book entitled, Feeling Backward: Affect, Aesthetics, and the Making of Queer History. [End Page 161]
Michel Maffesoli is Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris (I) Sorbonne and the Director of the Centre d’Etudes sur L’Actuel and le Quotidien. He is the author of The Time of the Tribes (1996), The Shadow of Dionysus (1993), The Contemplation of the World (1996), and many other books.
Kathleen M. Sands is Associate Professor and Director of Religious Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is author of Escape from Paradise: Evil and Tragedy in Feminist Theology and editor of God Forbid: Religion and Sex in American Public Life. She is currently writing a book that brings critical studies in religion to bear on church-state relations in the U.S.
George Steiner is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and Emeritus Professor of the University of Geneva. In 2000–2001, he was Charles Eliot Norton Professor of poetics at Harvard University. His most recent book is Lessons of the Masters (2003). [End Page 162]
