Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture



Editor

William A. Johnsen
Department of English
Michigan State University
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East Lansing, MI 48824
TEL (517) 432-3375
EMAIL johnsen@msu.edu

Advisory Editors

René Girard, Stanford University
Andrew McKenna, Loyola University of Chicago
Raymund Schwager^‡, University of Innsbruck
James Williams, Syracuse University

Editorial Assistant

Anna Feuerstein

MSU Press Journals Production

Managing Editor

Margot Landa Kielhorn

Production Editor

Teal Amthor-Shaffer

Design

Sharp Des!gns, Inc.

Student Assistants

Laura Mitchell
Alyssa Tigue

Editorial Board

Rebecca Adams, Independent Scholar
Mark Anspach, École Polytechnique, Paris
Ann Astell, University of Notre Dame
Cesáreo Bandera, University of North Carolina
Maria Stella Barberi, Università di Messina
Diana Culbertson, Kent State University
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Stanford University, École Polytechnique
Paul Dumouchel, Ritsumeikan University
Giuseppe Fornari, Università degli studi di Bergamo
Eric Gans, University of California, Los Angeles
Sandor Goodhardt, Purdue University
Robert Hamerton-Kelly, Stanford University
Hans Jensen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara
Cheryl Kirk-Duggan, Shaw Divinity School
Michael Kirwan, SJ, Heythrop College, University of London
Paisley Livingston, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Charles Mabee, Ecumenical Theological Seminary, Detroit
Józef Niewiadomski, Universität Innsbruck
Wolfgang Palaver, Universität Innsbruck
Martha Reineke, University of Northern Iowa
Tobin Siebers, University of Michigan
Thee Smith, Emory University
Mark Wallace, Swarthmore College
Eugene Webb, University of Washington