Contributors

1 9 9 R C O N T R I B U T O R S PETER BROOKS is the author of several books, including Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature, The Melodramatic Imagination, Reading for the Plot, and most recently, Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris. He is Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Yale, and has taught for the past several years at Princeton. NAN Z. DA teaches at the University of Notre Dame. Her academic monograph, Intransitive Encounter, was published by Columbia University in 2018. She is working on her second book of literary criticism and a book-length piece of experimental nonfiction titled ‘‘That No Harm May Come to Harmless Things.’’ RICHARD DEMING, a poet and critic, is the author of several books. His most recent is ArtoftheOrdinary:TheEverydayDomain of Art, Film, Philosophy and Poetry (Cornell University Press, 2018). C. J. DRIVER is author of several novels and collections of poems, including So Far, Selected Poems. For many years he was a prohibited immigrant in the country of his birth and upbringing, South Africa. DEWEY FAULKNER has taught at Yale and at the University of San Antonio. He has also worked for many years in newspaper, television , and radio as a music critic. MARTA FIGLEROWICZ is author of Flat Protagonists : A Theory of Novel Character (Oxford) and Spaces of Feeling: A√ect and Awareness in Modernist Literature (Cornell ). She writes literary and cultural criticism for publications such as n+1, Jacobin, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Post45 (Contemporaries), MAKE Literary Magazine , and Boston Review. She teaches in the department of comparative literature at Yale. CAROLYN FORCHE is a poet, editor, translator , and human rights advocate. Her books include the collection Blue Hour and The Horse on the Balcony, a memoir. What You Have Heard Is True will be published by PenguinRandomHouse this season. MARTIN HÄGGLUND is professor of comparative literature and humanities at Yale University . This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom, from which his essay in this issue is excerpted, will be published by Pantheon Books this March. The book will be the subject of an international conference at Yale on March 29, 2019. KIMIKO HAHN is author of nine books, including Volatile, The Unbearable Heart, The Artist’s Daughter, The Narrow Road to the Interior, and Toxic Flora and Brain Fever. She is a distinguished professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation at Queens College, City University of New York and the president of the board at the Poetry Society of America. SAMUEL HAZO is author of many books of poems, as well as fiction, essays, and plays. He is founder and director of the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh and McAnulty Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Duquesne University. 2 0 0 C O N T R I B U T O R S Y When Not Yet Is Now (new poems) appears from Franciscan University Press early this year. GISH JEN isauthorofseveralnovels,including Typical American and World and Town. Recently The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap appeared from Knopf. Her upcoming novel, The Resisters, will be published by Knopf in early 2020. ALICE KAPLAN is the author, most recently, of Looking for the Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic, and translator, most recently, of Roger Grenier ’s Palace of Books. She is John M. Musser Professor of French and co-director of the Yale Translation Initiative at the MacMillan Center. A frequent visitor to Algiers , she is at work on a novel set in that city. JOHN KINSELLA’s most recent books include the poetry collection Firebreaks (W. W. Norton) and the critical study Polysituatedness (Manchester University Press). He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University , Western Australia. GERARD MALANGA is the author of twelve books of poems, the most recent Cool & Other Poems (Bottle of Smoke Press). He recently completed his autobiography, In Remembrance of Things Past. FEISAL G. MOHAMED is a professor in the Graduate Center at CUNY. He was awarded the Milton Society of America’s James Holly Hanford Award for...