Contributors
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Aleida Assmann is Professor of English Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Her main areas of research are individual, social, political, and cultural forms of memory. Her recent publications in English are Memory in a Global Age: Discourses, Practices, and Trajectories, edited with Sebastian Conrad (2010), and Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives (2012).
Kuei-fen Chiu is Distinguished Professor of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies at National Chung-hsing University, Taiwan. She has published on postcolonial literary historiography, Taiwan documentary films, and literature. She is currently conducting research on environmental documentary films from Taiwan.
Patrick Fessenbecker is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Johns Hopkins University. His publications include “Jane Austen on Love and Pedagogical Power,” in Studies in English Literature (2011), and “Freedom, Self-hood, and Self-Obligation in Henry James,” in Nineteenth-Century Literature (2011).
Winfried Fluck teaches at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies of Freie Universität Berlin. He is a founding member of the institute’s graduate school, a member of its executive board, and codirector of the Dartmouth Futures of American Studies Institute. Among his most recent book publications are Romance with America? Essays on Culture, Literature, and American Studies (2009), and Re-Framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies, edited with Donald Pease and John Carlos Rowe (2012).
Jeffrey Knapp is Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California–Berkeley. His next book, after An Empire Nowhere (1992), Shakespeare’s Tribe (2002), and Shakespeare Only (2009), will examine the conceptions of mass entertainment in Renaissance English plays and Golden-Age Hollywood movies.
Nikolas Kompridis is Professorial Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Western Sydney and the Research Coordinator at the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory between Past and Future (2006), Philosophical Romanticism (2006), and The Aesthetic Turn in Political Thought (2013). [End Page 199]
James Lee is Assistant Professor of English at Grinnell College, where he teaches Renaissance literature and critical theory. His scientific work has appeared in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and he has published translations of Korean art historical texts. He is currently completing a book project on the fate of Aristotle’s De Anima in early modern England.
Joseph North is completing his PhD in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His current project is a book on the history and theory of criticism, provisionally entitled Useful Works: Anglo-American Criticism and the Project of Aesthetic Education. He also works on the literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
James Simpson is Douglas P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University and former Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text (1990); Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry (1995); Reform and Cultural Revolution, 1350–1547, volume 2 of The Oxford English Literary History (2002); Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents (2007); and Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition (2010). [End Page 200]
