Contributors
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Michael Allan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Petrone Faculty Scholar at the University of Oregon. He is the editor of Comparative Literature, author of In the Shadow of World Literature (Princeton, 2016), and currently writing a book on the global itineraries of the Lumière Brothers film company.
Jacob Edmond is Professor of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the author of A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature (Fordham, 2012) and Make It the Same: Poetry in the Age of Global Media (Columbia, 2019), and has published essays in such journals as Comparative Literature, Contemporary Literature, Poetics Today, Slavic Review, and The China Quarterly.
yasser elhariry is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Pacifist Invasions: Arabic, Translation & the Postfrancophone Lyric (Liverpool, 2017), guest editor of Cultures du mysticisme (Expressions maghrébines, 2017), and coeditor of Critically Mediterranean: Temporalities, Æsthetics & Deployments of a Sea in Crisis (Palgrave, 2018). He is a recipient of the William Riley Parker Prize.
Kélina Gotman teaches theatre and performance studies in the English Department at King’s College London. She is author of Choreomania: Dance and Disorder (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Essays on Theatre and Change (Routledge, 2018), co-editor of Foucault’s Theatres (Manchester University Press, 2019) and editor of the forthcoming four-volume Theories of Performance: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury). She is translator among others of Marie NDiaye’s The Snakes (Cue Press, 2016) and Félix Guattari’s The Anti-Oedipus Papers (Semiotext(e), 2006). She has published widely on critical and cultural theory, performance, choreography, language, translation and the history and philosophy of disciplines and institutions. She has held visiting positions in Germany, the USA and the UK.
Christine Hoffmann is an Associate Professor and Assistant Chair of the English Department at West Virginia University. She writes and teaches about early modern English literature and culture; the rhetoric and ethics of social media; and the transhistorical connections between literary and curatorial practices of collecting. Her essays have appeared in cultural studies and literary theory journals, including PMLA, College Literature, and Rhizomes, and her book, Stupid Humanism: Folly as Competence in Early Modern and Twenty-first-Century Culture, was published in 2017 as part of Palgrave Macmillan’s Early Modern Cultural Studies series.
Atėnė Mendelytė is Assistant Professor at the Center of Scandinavian Studies, Vilnius University, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in film, media, and visual studies. She has published numerous articles and anthology chapters on a variety of subjects ranging from Victorian post-mortem photography to Deleuzian film-philosophy in relation to Samuel Beckett’s television plays. Her research primarily focuses on investigating theoretical and philosophical questions in connection to various forms of art (film, photography, theatre, music, and literature). Currently (2021–2023), she is participating in MotherNet, an international research project (together with researchers from Vilnius, Uppsala, and Maynooth Universities), funded by the European Commission. The objective of the project is to explore contemporary European motherhood.
Brigitte Rath is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Innsbruck. She has published a book on narrative theory, Narratives Verstehen (Velbrück, 2011), and is currently working on her book on original texts pretending to be translations, Original Translation: Imagining Texts in Another Language. She wrote an entry on “pseudotranslation” for the ACLA Report on the State of the Discipline.
Krzysztof Skonieczny is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw, where he is a member of the Techno-Humanities Lab. He teaches a number of courses on animal studies, the relationship between natural sciences and the humanities, and continental theory. His current research concentrates on the problem of slowness in the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. He is the author of Immanence and the Animal: A Conceptual Inquiry (Routledge, 2020) and the co-editor (with Szymon Wróbel) of Atheism Revisited: Rethinking Modernity and Inventing New Modes of Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
Rebecca L. Walkowitz is Dean of Humanities in the School of Arts and Sciences, Distinguished Professor of English, and Affiliate Faculty in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University...
