Contributors
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Sarah M. Allen is Associate Professor in the Program in Comparative Literature at Williams College. Her research focuses on the literary culture of late medieval China, in particular stories, anecdotes, and historiographic practices. Her first book, Shifting Stories: History, Gossip, and Lore in Narratives from Tang Dynasty China (2014), explores the tale literature of the eighth and ninth centuries.
Linda M. Austin is Professor Emerita of English at Oklahoma State University. Her books are The Practical Ruskin (1991), Nostalgia in Transition (2007), and Automatism and Creative Acts in the Age of New Psychology (2018).
Elaine Auyoung is the McKnight Land-Grant Professor, Associate Professor of English, and Affiliate Faculty of the Center for Cognitive Sciences at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is the author of When Fiction Feels Real: Representation and the Reading Mind (2018).
Jack W. Chen is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Poetics of Sovereignty: On Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty (2010), coeditor of Idle Talk: Gossip and Anecdote in Traditional Chinese Literature (2013), and has written articles on medieval historiography, donkey braying, social networks, and reading practices. He is codirector of the Humanities Informatics Lab at the University of Virginia.
Michael Dango is Assistant Professor of English and Media Studies at Beloit College. This essay comes from his book project, Styles of Repair, on stylistic responses to crisis in contemporary American art and literature. A second project, on what aesthetics knows about sexual violence that law and medicine do not, is tentatively titled What Does Rape Look Like?
Monika Fludernik is Professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg. She is the director of a graduate school funded by the German Research Council focusing on "Factual and Fictional Narration." Though her main focus has been on narratology, Fludernik's research interests also include language and literature, metaphor studies, postcolonial literature and theory, eighteenth-century aesthetics, and law and literature. Her most recent book is Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy (2019).
Morgan Day Frank is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Wesleyan University. His work has appeared in NOVEL and Modern Language Quarterly. [End Page 275]
Carissa M. Harris is Associate Professor of English at Temple University. She is the author of Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain (2018), as well as essays on medieval pastourelles, Middle English pregnancy laments, Chaucer's Legend of Philomela, obscene riddles, medieval histories of intoxication and consent, and Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale.
Brandon W. Hawk is Assistant Professor of English at Rhode Island College. He has published on various medieval uses of biblical apocrypha, including Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England (2018), as well as The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and the Nativity of Mary (2019).
Heather Houser is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect (2014) and Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data (2020), as well as many articles. She codirects the Planet Texas 2050 climate research program and is an associate editor at Contemporary Literature.
Michelle Karnes is Associate Professor of English and the Graduate Program in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame. Along with Sebastian Sobecki, she edits Studies in the Age of Chaucer. She is currently completing a monograph on marvels in medieval natural philosophy, travel literature, and romance.
Michael Krimper teaches in the school of Liberal Studies at New York University and is finishing a book that explores how work becomes a problem in postwar French and transatlantic writing. His articles have appeared in SubStance and Los Angeles Review of Books, among other venues.
Joshua Landy is the Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University, where he codirects the Initiative in Philosophy and Literature. His books include Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust...
