Contributors
- Contributors
REBECCA BORDEN is currently the Executive Editor of Modern British Literature at the Foreign Literatures in America Project, a digital Humanities project at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her scholarship focuses on British and American literature in the first decades of the 20th century, especially literary responses to the First World War. She has recently published on Joseph Conrad, John Buchan, and Elia Peattie.
RODNEY STENNING EDGECOMBE lectures English literature at the University of Cape Town, and holds one of its Distinguished Teacher Awards. He took his MA with distinction at Rhodes University, where he won the Royal Society of St George Prize for English, and his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded the Members’ English Prize, 1978/1979. He has published 11 books—the most recent being on Thomas Hood—and 382 articles on topics that range from Shakespeare to nineteenth-century ballet and opera.
ADAM J. ENGEL is a doctoral student and teaching fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He researches the relationship between lyric poetry, music, and spiritual ecstasy in twentieth-century British literature.
CHRIS GOGWILT is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Fordham University. Currently serving as the President of the Joseph Conrad Society of America, he is the author of The Invention of the West: Joseph Conrad and the Double-Mapping of Europe and Empire (Stanford, 1995) and The Fiction of Geopolitics: Afterimages of Culture from Wilkie Collins to Alfred Hitchcock (Stanford, 2000). His most recent book is The Passage of Literature: Genealogies of Modernism in Conrad, Rhys, and Pramoedya (Oxford, 2011), which won the Modernist Studies Association book prize for 2012.
DR. SOON BAE KIM is Visiting Professor of English language and literature at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul. He recently published articles on John [End Page 95] Barth, William Shakespeare, and Oscar Wilde in Korea. His research interests include modernism, aesthetics, humor, irony, narrative theory, ontological relationality in literature, and posthumanism.
NIDESH LAWTOO is a SNSF Visiting Scholar in The Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University. His articles on Conrad have appeared in Conradiana, Contagion, Novel, and MFS. He is the editor of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Contemporary Thought: Revisiting the Horror with Lacoue-Labarthe (Bloomsbury, 2012), and the author of The Phantom of the Ego: Modernism and the Mimetic Unconscious (Michigan State UP, 2013). He recently finished a second monograph titled, Conrad’s Shadow: Mimesis, Catastrophe, Theory (forthcoming with Michigan State UP).
YAEL LEVIN is Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Associate Professor at the Institute of Culture and Literature at the Arctic University of Norway. She is the author of Tracing the Aesthetic Principle in Conrad’s Novels and her essays have appeared in Conradiana, The Conradian, Partial Answers, and a number of essay collections.
BRIAN RICHARDSON is a professor in the English Department of the University of Maryland and served as vice president and president of the Joseph Conrad Society of America from 2006 to 2011. He is the author of four books, including Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration on Modern and Contemporary Fiction (2006), winner of the Perkins Prize. He is the editor of six volumes, including Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices (2008), and a special issue of Conradiana on “Conrad and the Reader” in 2003. He has written numerous articles and book chapters on twentieth-century authors, particularly Joseph Conrad, in which he has discussed class and unreliable narration in “The Secret Sharer,” voice and class in “The Nigger of the Narcissus,” chance and cause in Nostromo, the ending of Nostromo, Conrad and the implied author, silence and unusual plot twists, and the act of reading in Conrad’s fiction. He is currently working on a book on Conrad and narrative.
JOHAN ADAM WARODELL has published on Conrad in The Cambridge Quarterly, The Conradian, Notes & Queries and the Yearbook of Conrad Studies. [End Page 96]
