Contributors
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W. Scott Blanchard is Professor of English at Misericordia University. He is the translator of On Exile by Francesco Filelfo (2013) in the I Tatti Renaissance Library series and a scholar of Renaissance humanism who has published in Renaissance Studies, Studies in Philology, The Journal of the History of Ideas, Renaissance Quarterly, and most recently in The European Legacy on such figures as Lorenzo Valla, Ben Jonson, Francesco Petrarch, Francesco Filelfo, and Leonardo Bruni. An older book, Scholars’ Bedlam (1995), focused on Menippean satire in the Renaissance.
Georgina Born is Professor of Music and Anthropology at Oxford University. Recently, she gave the Bloch Lectures in Music at the University of California–Berkeley and held the Schulich Distinguished Visiting Chair in Music at McGill University. She is an anthropologist whose ethnographic and theoretical writings span contemporary media, music, art, interdisciplinarity, and, generally, cultural production. Her recent books include Music, Sound and Space (ed., 2013) and Interdisciplinarity (ed. with Andrew Barry, 2013). Improvisation and Social Aesthetics (ed. with E. Lewis and W. Straw) will be published in 2016.
Alexander Freer is a junior research fellow in English at Trinity College, Cambridge. His research interests include poetics, psychoanalysis, and British Romanticism, and recent essays have appeared in Paragraph, Textual Practice, and Studies in Romanticism.
Yohei Igarashi is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. His current work engages British Romantic poetry and questions of communication (on which he is writing a book), as well as twentieth-century debates about learning how to read.
Marlon Jones has translated two literary works—Normance, by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and The Dance of a Sham, by Paul Emond—and collaborated on translations of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (forthcoming) and François Cusset with Jeff Fort. He teaches French at Fettes College in Edinburgh.
Bernard Lahire is full professor of sociology at the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon. He has recently published The Plural Actor (2010) and Ceci n’est pas qu’un tableau: Essai sur l’art, la domination, la magie et le sacré (2015). He was awarded the CNRS silver medal in 2012 for the human and social sciences. [End Page 569]
Jahan Ramazani is University Professor and Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. His five books include Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres (2013) and A Transnational Poetics (2009), winner of the ACLA’s Harry Levin Prize. He coedited the most recent editions of The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry and The Norton Anthology of English Literature.
Scott Selisker is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom (forthcoming), and his work has also appeared in American Literature, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Science Fiction Studies, Debates in the Digital Humanities 2015, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Richard Shusterman is the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities at Florida Atlantic University and director of its Center for Body, Mind, and Culture. His Pragmatist Aesthetics is published in fifteen languages. His most recent books in English are Body Consciousness (2008) and Thinking through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics (2012).
Caroline A. van Eck is Professor of Early Modern Art and Architectural History at Leiden University and will be Slade Professor of Fine Art in Oxford in 2017. She has taught and published on early modern visual rhetoric, theatricality, and the agency of art. Her most recent book is Art, Agency and Living Presence: From the Animated Image to the Excessive Object (2015). [End Page 570]
