Contributors
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Brian Boyd, University Distinguished Professor, University of Auckland, has published—apart from much on Nabokov—on American, Brazilian, English, Greek, Irish, New Zealand, Polish, and Russian writers; on fiction, nonfiction, drama, verse, comics, film, translation, adaptation, and literary and art theory; on literature (and art) and evolution; and on linguistics, philosophy, and science. His work has appeared in nineteen languages and has won awards on four continents.
Sean Gaston is Reader in English at Brunel University, London, and studied at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of five monographs on the work of Jacques Derrida. His most recent book is The Concept of World from Kant to Derrida (2013). He is now working on a project on Derrida and the challenge of history.
Robert S. Lehman is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Boston College, as well as co-chair of the Mahindra Humanities Center's Seminar in Dialectical Thinking at Harvard University. He is the author of Impossible Modernism: T. S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, and the Critique of Historical Reason (2016). He is currently completing a book on the transformation of traditional aesthetic categories—categories such as "beauty," "genius," and "pleasure"—in the context of literary and visual modernism.
John Michael is Professor of English and of Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. He has published many articles on American literature, contemporary cultural studies, and critical theory. His books are Emerson and Skepticism: The Cipher of the World (1988); Anxious Intellects: Academic Professionals, Enlightenment Values, and Democratic Politics (2000); and Identity and the Failure of America from Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror (2008). Secular Lyric: The Modernization of the Poem in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson is forthcoming in 2018.
Sam Rose is Lecturer in Art History at the University of St Andrews. He is currently completing a book about form, art writing, and modernist aesthetics. Related articles on close looking and formalism have appeared in Art History and Nonsite.
Zachary Samalin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago. He is completing a book entitled The Masses Are Revolting: Victorian Culture and the Aesthetics of Disgust. [End Page 411]
Charles Shepherdson is the author of Vital Signs: Nature, Culture, Psychoanalysis (2000) and Lacan and the Limits of Language (2008). He is editor of Insinuations, a book series that has produced twenty-five volumes. A former Fellow at the University of Virginia's Commonwealth Center, and Member in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, he was recently Visiting Scholar at the Pembroke Center at Brown University. He has recently completed a book titled Lacan and Philosophy and is currently working on Esthetics and Emotion: A Genealogy.
Sarah L. Townsend is Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Mexico, where she specializes in Irish, British, and Anglophone literature. She has published on British immigration and security, Celtic Tiger economic discourse, cosmopolitanism, and contemporary migration in Ireland. She is completing her first monograph on narratives of rapid Bildung in Irish fiction and drama.
Ruth Bernard Yeazell is Chace Family Professor of English at Yale University. She writes about the novel, the history of gender and sexuality, and relations between the verbal and visual arts. Her most recent book, Picture Titles: How and Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names, was published in 2015. She is currently at work on a reception history of the art of Johannes Vermeer. [End Page 412]
