The Limits of Literary Historicism

Contributors

Contributors Charles M. Altieri teaches in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books are The Particulars of Rapture (2002) and The Art of Modernist American Poetry (2005). He is now working on a book about the poetry of Wallace Stevens. R. M. Berry is author, most recently, of the novel Frank (Chiasmus, 2005) and the story collection Dictionary of Modern Anguish (FC2, 2000). He has edited the anthology Forms at War: FC2 1999–2009 (U of Alabama P, 2009) and coedited with Jeffrey DiLeo the collection of critical writings Fiction’s Present: Situating Contemporary Narrative Innovation (SUNY UP, 2007). His criticism has appeared in Symploke, Philosophy and Literature, Narrative, and the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature. He is currently Professor and Chair of English at Florida State University. Allen Dunn is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville , and has served as editor of Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal. With Alan Singer he edited Literary Aesthetics: A Reader, and his articles have appeared in boundary 2, The Journal of Modern Literature, and Shakespeare Studies, among other journals. Amy J. Elias is Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the author of Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction (Johns Hopkins UP, 2001), winner of the ISSN’s Perkins Prize. A founder of A.S.A.P.: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, she has published numerous articles on contemporary fiction and art, digital technologies, and historiography and is completing a book about dialogue. Jane Gallop is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She has been a close reader of theory for more than three decades, producing books such as Reading Lacan Contributors 172 and Around 1981: Academic Feminist Literary Theory. She has just completed writing a book to be published by Duke University Press entitled The Deaths of the Author: Reading and Writing in Time, which features close readings of Barthes, Derrida, Sedgwick, and Spivak. Thomas F. Haddox is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee , Knoxville. He is the author of Fears and Fascinations: Representing Catholicism in the American South (Fordham UP, 2005) and editor of “The South and the Sublime,” a special issue of The Southern Quarterly (Spring 2011). His essays have been published in a number of journals, including, most recently, Religion and Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, and Modern Fiction Studies. Christoph Irmscher is Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington , where he teaches things he likes. He is the author of The Poetics of Natural History, Longfellow Redux, and Public Poet, Private Man and has edited John James Audubon’s Writings and Drawings for the Library of America. He was featured in two documentaries about Audubon, most recently A Summer of Birds, produced by Louisiana Public Television. Last year, his online exhibit on H. W Longfellow won a Leab Award from the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. His new book, Mr. Agassiz’s Puzzle-Box, is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Jeffrey Insko is Associate Professor of English at Oakland University. His essays on nineteenth-century U.S. literature have appeared in a number of journals, including Pedagogy, American Literary History, Early American Literature , American Literature, and ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance. He is currently completing a manuscript entitled “The Ever-Present Now: Antebellum American Literary Historiography.” Rebecca Munson is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley . She received her B.A. from Columbia and holds a Master’s from Oxford, where she studied the reception and appropriation of Shakespeare during the English civil war. Her dissertation project continues and expands these interests to consider the fate of Shakespeare’s plays and characters between 1623 and 1723. She loves to read, teach, and study seventeenth-century drama and poetry. Contributors 173 Bruce Plourde received his PhD from Temple University and currently teaches American literature at Rowan University. During the 2010–11 academic year, he was stationed at Yunnan University in Kunming, China, as a Fulbright Scholar. He continues to teach and write about American authors from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Claude Willan is a graduate student in the Ph.D. program of the English department at Stanford University. He holds a B.A. and an M.St. from Exeter...