Contributors
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Nadia Al-Bagdadi is Professor of History and Director of the Religious Studies Program at Central European University.
Emily Apter is Professor of French, English, and Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author most recently of The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature (2006). Her additional publications include articles in Critical Inquiry, PMLA, Comparative Literary Studies, Grey Room, The Boston Review, American Literary History, Sites, Parallax, Modern Language Notes, Esprit Créateur, Critique, October, and Public Culture. She edits the book series, Translation/Transnation and is coediting with Jacques Lezra and Michael Wood, Le Vocabulaire européen des philosophies: dictionnaire des intraduisibles.
Jonathan Arac is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English and founding Director of the Center for Humanities at the University of Pittsburgh. He also serves on the boundary 2 editorial collective, and he chairs the Advisory Committee for the Successful Societies Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. His next book, Impure Worlds: The Institution of Literature in the Age of the Novel, is forthcoming.
Karyn Ball is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, where she teaches and researches in the areas of critical theory, the politics of memory, and psychoanalytic approaches to the analysis of culture and society. Her recent publications include a special issue of Cultural Critique, coedited with Susanne Soederberg, on “Cultures of Finance” (2007); an edited volume of essays, Traumatizing Theory: The Cultural Politics of Affect in and beyond Psychoanalysis (2007); and a monograph entitled Disciplining the Holocaust (2008).
David Bleich teaches literary and language theory, literature, criticism, film studies, gender studies, science studies, and Jewish studies in the English Department of the University of Rochester. His books include Readings and Feelings (1975); Subjective Criticism (1978); Utopia: The Psychology of a Cultural Fantasy (1984); The Double Perspective (1988); Know and Tell (1998); and Personal Effects, edited with Deborah Holdstein (2002).
Rey Chow is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University, where she holds appointments in Comparative Literature, English, and Modern Culture and Media. She is the author, most recently, of The Age of the World Target (2006; Italian translation, 2007; Chinese, Bulgarian, and Japanese translations forthcoming) and Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films (2007; Chinese [End Page 761] translation forthcoming). In fall 2008 she was Class of 1932 Fellow in English and Visiting Professor, the Council of the Humanities, Princeton University.
David Damrosch is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is a past president of the American Comparative Literature Association and has written widely on world literature from antiquity to the present. His books include What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), and How to Read World Literature (2008). He is the founding general editor of the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature (2004) and the editor of Teaching World Literature (2009).
Wai Chee Dimock is William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. She is the author, most recently, of Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time (2006). She has coedited, with Lawrence Buell, a volume of essays, Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature (2007); and with Bruce Robbins, a special issue of PMLA, “Remapping Genre” (October 2007). She is now at work on a book, Genres and Media: A Long Kinship.
Amy J. Elias is Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction (2001) and numerous articles and book chapters concerning contemporary literature and culture. Her second book, in progress, concerns dialogue as a value in philosophy and in the cross-disciplinary, post-1960s arts. She is also the creator and acting president of a new society for the study of the contemporary literary, visual, and performing arts, A.S.A.P.: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present and organizer of A.S.A.P.’s inaugural conference in 2009.
Frances Ferguson is Mary Elizabeth Garrett Professor in Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. She is author of Wordsworth: Language...
