Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
PAUL ARDOIN (Paul.Ardoin@utsa.edu) is assistant professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is a general editor for Bloomsbury’s Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism book series, and its second volume, on Deleuze, was released in August 2014. His other recent work on Beckett and Deleuze is forthcoming in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.
ROY BENJAMIN (RABENJAMIN@aol.com) teaches at Borough of Manhattan Community College – CUNY. He has published articles on James Joyce in James Joyce Quarterly, Joyce Studies Annual, Irish Studies Review, Comparative Literature Studies, and Journal of Modern Literature.
SHELDON BRIVIC (sbrivic@temple.edu) is professor of English at Temple University. He serves on the editorial boards of James Joyce Quarterly, Joyce Studies Annual, and the Journal of Modern Literature. His latest books are Joyce through Lacan and Zizek: Explorations and Tears of Rage: The Racial Interface of Modern American Fiction: Faulkner, Wright, Pynchon, Morrison. Five of his books are on Joyce.
NATHANIEL DAVIS (n.e.d.caute@gmail.com) is a PhD candidate in comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation looks at the role of language in the aesthetics of experimental Germanophone literature after 1945, concentrating on the work of Helmut Heißenbüttel, Konrad Bayer, Peter Handke, and Rolf Dieter Brinkmann. He has written book reviews for the Journal of Modern Literature and French Forum, and has translated texts by W.G. Sebald and Peter Handke for Cannon Magazine. Dalkey Archive Press will be publishing his translations of Austrian writer Gunter Falk in the coming year.
AMANDA M. DENNIS (amdennis@berkeley.edu) earned her PhD in rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley, where she focused on the relationship between twentieth-century French philosophy and the work of Samuel Beckett. She is currently revising her dissertation into a book, Bodying Space, which emphasizes the importance of the body to postwar French thought and to Beckett’s prose, theater and television work. She has taught courses on modernist literature, ethics and subjectivity in England, France and the US.
GRAHAM FRASER (graham.fraser@msvu.ca) is assistant professor of modern and contemporary literature at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, [End Page 200] Canada. He has presented and published work on Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, M. John Harrison, Paul Auster, and J.G. Ballard. His current research projects include the aesthetics of Beckett’s late fiction and a study of spectrality in modernist aesthetics.
ALISON HOWARD (alhoward@sas.upenn.edu) is a doctoral candidate in the comparative literature and literary theory program at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation examines mythic representations of World War II in France and Italy and seeks to rehabilitate myth as a valid form of political engagement. She has presented work on such authors as Michel Tournier, Georges Bataille, Elsa Morante, Georges Perec, Samuel Beckett, and Jean Genet, among others.
JANINA LEVIN (jlevin@holyfamily.edu) received her PhD in English from Temple University in 2010. She teaches literature and first year writing at Holy Family University. Her article “Empathy, Cuckoldry and the Helper’s Vicarious Imagination in Ulysses” is forthcoming in James Joyce Quarterly. She is currently working on a book project about helper characters in nineteenth and twentieth century novels.
BERNARD MCKENNA (mckennab@udel.edu) is an associate professor of modern Irish and British literature at the University of Delaware. He has published a series of articles on Yeats’s aesthetic of Irish Nationalism, expressed in print culture. His work on Yeats has appeared in The Philological Quarterly, The New Hibernia Review, The Irish Studies Review, The Yeats-Eliot Review, Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, and Journal of Modern Literature.
RIVKY MONDAL (jzm297@psu.edu) is a graduate student at the Pennsylvania State University. Her focus is Irish modernism and the Beckettian “pseudo-couple.”
SALVATORE PAPPALARDO (spappalardo@towson.edu) is an assistant professor of English and comparative literature at Towson University. His research focuses on transnational modernism, translation theory, and the intersection of aesthetics and politics. He teaches courses that range from the ancient Mediterranean to nineteenth and twentieth century literature, European modernism, comparative and world literature. He is currently working on a...
