Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices

Contributors

Contributors O L I V E R S . B U C K T O N is Associate Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University, where he teaches Victorian literature, critical theory, and film. He is the author of Secret Selves: Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography (1998) and Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: Travel, Narrative, and the Colonial Body (2007). He has published essays on Dickens, Wilde, and Schreiner, among others, and is currently working on a project tracing the responses of British Victorian writers to the Italian body as “other.” P H I L I P P E C A R R A R D is Professor of French, Emeritus, at the University of Vermont and a Visiting Scholar in the Program of Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Poetics of the New History: French Historical Discourse from Braudel to Chartier (1995) and several essays on conventions of writing in factual, nonfictional narrative. He is currently working on a book about the memoirs of the French who fought for Germany during World War II. T I T A C H I C O teaches in the English Department of the University of Maryland. She is the author of Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture (2005) and has published a variety of articles on eighteenth-century British literature and culture. She also edits The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. R Y A N C L A Y C O M B is Assistant Professor of Literature at West Virginia University, where he teaches courses on modern drama, gender studies, and twentieth-century British literature. He has published several articles on the intersection of narrative, gender, and performance in such journals as jnt, Modern Drama, and Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. He is currently at work on a book on life writing and contemporary feminist drama and is editing a collection on writing and antidisciplinarity. 268 C O N T R I B U T O R S M E L B A C U D D Y - K E A N E is Professor of English at the University of Toronto and the author of Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere (2003). Her most recent work includes “Narratological Approaches” in Palgrave, Advances in Virginia Woolf Studies (2007); “Global Modernisms” in A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture (2006); and “Modernist Soundscapes and the Intelligent Ear: An Approach to Narrative through Auditory Perception” in A Companion to Narrative Theory (2005). Her annotated edition of Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts is forthcoming from Harcourt, and she is writing a book on modernism, globalism, and the sphere of tolerance. M A R I L Y N E D E L S T E I N is Associate Professor of English and also a faculty member in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Santa Clara University. She teaches courses on contemporary American literature , feminist theory, literary and cultural theory, postmodernism, and multicultural literature and theory. She has published articles and book chapters on Vladimir Nabokov, John Barth, bell hooks, Julia Kristeva, feminist theory and postmodernism, literature and ethics, and multiculturalism. She is working on a book on ethics in/and feminism, postmodernism, and multiculturalism. P A T R I C K C O L M H O G A N is a Professor in the Department of English and the Program in Cognitive Science at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of The Politics of Interpretation (1990), Colonialism and Cultural Identity (2000), The Culture of Conformism (2001), The Mind and Its Stories (2003), Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts (2003), Empire and Poetic Voice (2004), and Understanding Nationalism: Narrative Identity and Cognitive Science (both forthcoming). He is currently editing The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. J E S S I C A L A C C E T T I completed her PhD at the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University. Her thesis examines Web fictions within a narrative and feminist context. She lectures at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels on media and new media. She is also involved with the Narrative Laboratory, where she helped organize Europe’s first conference on women, business, and blogging (www.nlabwomen.com). Her work has been published on- and C O N T R I B U T O R S...