Waste-Site Stories: The Recycling of Memory

Contributors

Contributors Aleida Assmann became Chair of English Literature at the Universität Konstanz in 1993, after obtaining a doctorate in English and egyptology from Heidelberg and Tübingen Universities. A Fellow of the Essen Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut , 1992–1993, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, 1998–1999, she is the co-editor of a volume on forms and functions of memory, Mnemosyn: Formen und Funktionen des kulturellen Erinnerung (Fisher Verlag, 1993). Her most recent publications include Zeit und Tradition (Böhlau, 1999) and Erinnerungsr äume: Formen und Wandlungen des kulturellen Gedächtnisses (C. H. Beck, 1999). Stephen Bann is Professor of Art History at the University of Bristol, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. His most recent books are Under the Sign: John Bargrave As Collector, Traveler and Witness (University of Michigan Press, 1994), Romanticism and the Rise of History (Twayne, l995), Paul Delaroche—History Painted (Princeton University Press, l997), and Parallel Lines: Printmakers, Painters, and Photographers in Nineteenth Century France (Yale University Press, 2001). Christine Bernier holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the Université de Montréal and works at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. As Director of Educational Services, she has organized the international conference series Definitions of Visual Culture, which began in 1994 with The New Art History, followed by Modernist Utopias and Art and History, in 1995 and 1997, respectively, and Memory and Archives, in 2000. Gordon Bleach was Assistant Professor of Photography in the Department of Art at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He first obtained a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Cape Town, before pursuing graduate work at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a second doctorate in art history, from Binghampton University on American and European film, photographic 2 4 5 and cartographic representations of Africa. He had exhibited extensively over the last two decades, in both Africa and Europe, as well as in North America, where he participated in the Guggenheim Museum group exhibition, In/sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present. Wolfgang Ernst has taught media studies at a number of German universities since his doctoral work on neo-classical collections of antiquities in Britain, published as Historismus im Verzug (MRM Verlag, 1993). He submitted his habilitation at Humboldt-Universität—In the Name of History: Collecting, Storing, Narrating. Among his many publications on the archaeology of media, he edited Die Unschreibbarkeit von Imperien: Theodor Mommsens Römische Kaisergeschichte und Heiner Müllers Echo (Verlag and Databank für Geisteswissenschaften, 1995). Wlad Godzich is Dean of Humanities at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The former co-editor of the Theory and History of Literature series (University of Minnesota Press), he also is the author of many essays and two books, The Emergence of Prose: An Essay in Prosaics (University of Minnesota Press, 1987), with Jeffrey Kittay, and The Culture of Literacy (Harvard University Press, 1994). Charles Grivel is Professor of Romance Languages and Literature at the Universit ät Mannheim. He has published several essays on popular culture and literature , photography, and art. He is a specialist on Dracula, having edited a collection of essays on the subject (Cahiers de l’Herne, 1996). In 1990, he published Précipité d’une fouille (Antigone), but is better known for a celebrated book on fantasy, Fantastique-Fiction (Presses Universitaires de France, 1992). David Gross is Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of The Writer and Society: Heinrich Mann and Literary Politics in Germany , 1890–1940 (Humanities Press, 1980), The Past in Ruins (University of Massachusetts Press, 1992), his influential study of history and memory, and most recently, Lost Time: On Remembering and Forgetting in Late Modern Culture (University of Massachusetts Press, 2000). Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is Albert Guérard Professor of Literature in the Departments of Comparative Literature and French and Italian at Stanford University . He is the co-editor of the Writing Science series (Stanford University Press) and several essay collections, most recently, Materialities of Communication (Stanford University Press, 1994). His publications in English include Making Sense in Life and Literature (University of Minnesota Press, 1992) and In 1926: Living at the Edge of Time (Harvard University Press, 1997). 246 Wa s t e - S i t e S t o r i e s Susanne Hauser teaches at Berlin’s Humboldt Universität, where she received her habilitation in...