Notes on Contributors
Hester Baer is Assistant Professor of German and Film and Video Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Her research interests focus on gender and popular culture in postwar and post-unification Germany. She is currently completing a book manuscript about female spectators and West German cinema in the 1950s. She is also the translator and co-editor of Nanda Herbermann's The Blessed Abyss: Inmate #6582 in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for Women (Hester Baer and Elizabeth Roberts Baer, eds. Wayne State University Press, 2000).
Dennis Berthold is Professor of English at Texas A&M University where he teaches nineteenth-century American literature, gothic literature, and nautical literature. His articles in these fields have appeared in several interdisciplinary collections as well as such journals as William & Mary Quarterly, American Literary History, and American Literature. He also co-edited books on Whitman and Hawthorne, and is currently completing a study of Melville and the Risorgimento.
Tracy E. Bilsing is Assistant Professor of English at Sam Houston State University. She is interested in British fiction written during the Great War. She is also interested in compiling a collection of critical articles on Mary Butts in the near future. Currently, she is working on an article about Butts's use of cultural icons in her short fiction.
Douglas A. Brooks is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University and the editor of the journal Shakespeare Yearbook. Brooks is the author of From Playhouse to Printing House (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and the editor of a collection of essays entitled Parenting and Printing in Early Modern England (Ashgate Publishing Co., 2003). His Globe Quartos Edition of the play Ram Alley by Lording Barry is forthcoming in 2004 from Routledge.
Marian Eide is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University and author of Ethical Joyce (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Arthur F. Kinney is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History and Director of the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is the author, most recently, of "Lies Like Truth": Shakespeare, "Macbeth," and the Cultural Moment (Wayne State University Press, 2001) and Shakespeare by Stages (Blackwell Publishing, 2003) and the editor most recently of Renaissance Drama (Blackwell Publishing, 2000), A Companion to Renaissance Drama (Blackwell Publishing, 2002), and Hamlet: New Critical Essays (Taylor & Francis, Inc., 2001).
Lutz Koepnick is Associate Professor of German, Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of The Dark Mirror: German Cinema between Hitler and Hollywood (University of California Press, 2002); Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Power (University of Nebraska Press, 1999), and of Nothungs Modernität: Wagners Ring und die Poesie der Politik im neunzehnten [End Page 148] Jahrhundert (Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1994). His current book project is entitled, "Framing Attention: Windows on Modern German Culture." He is also currently co-editing a volume with Nora M. Alter, "Sound Matters: Essays on the Acoustics of German Culture," with Sabine Eckmann, "Caught by Politics: German Exiles and American Visual Culture," and with Stephan Schindler, "Between the Local and the Global: Re-Visiting the Sites of Postwar German Cinema."
Larry J. Reynolds is Professor of English and Thomas Franklin Mayo Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University, where he directs the American Studies Program. He is editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller (1998) and A Historical Guide to Nathaniel Hawthorne (Oxford University Press, 2001). His current projects include a study of Hawthorne and slavery.
Marguerite H. Rippy, Assistant Professor of Literature at Marymount University-Arlington, publishes on identity politics in performance from Shakespearean England to Postmodern Hollywood. Her most recent publication is "All Our Othellos: Black Monsters and White Masks on the American Screen" in Spectacular Shakespeare: Critical Theory and Popular Cinema (Lisa Starks and Courtney Lehmann, eds. Associated University Presses, 2002). Currently, she is working on a manuscript about the radio plays of Orson Welles.
Jeffrey T. Schnapp is the founder/director of the Stanford Humanities Lab (http://shl.stanford.edu) and Rosina Pierotti Professor of Italian Literature at Stanford University. His most recent books are Anno X (Pisa, 2003) and Building Fascism, Communism, Democracy: Gaetano Ciocca—Builder, Inventor, Farmer, Writer, Engineer (Stanford University Press, 2004).
Ralph Schoolcraft is Assistant Professor of French at Texas A&M University. He recently authored Romain Gary: The Man Who Sold His Shadow (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002) and translated Henry Rousso, The Haunting Past: History, Memory, and Justice in Contemporary France (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002). He is working on two book manuscripts, Methods of the Mask (on pseudonymous authorship) and Literary Gaullism: Representations of the French Resistance.
Janis P. Stout is Professor Emerita of English at Texas A&M University, as well as Dean of Faculties and Associate Provost Emerita. Her most recent books are Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World (University Press of Virginia, 2000) and A Calendar of the Letters of Willa Cather (University of Nebraska Press, 2002).
Susan Rubin Suleiman is the C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Her books include Authoritarian Fictions: The Ideological Novel as a Literary Genre (Columbia University Press, 1982; paperback, Princeton University Press, 1993); Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics and the Avant Garde (Harvard University Press, 1990); Risking Who One Is (Harvard University Press, 1994); and the memoir Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook (University of Nebraska Press, 1996). Most recently, she has co-edited Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary (University of Nebraska Press, 2003) and is finishing a book on "Crises of Memory and the Second World War." [End Page 149]
Steven Winspur is Professor of French at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. His publications include Saint-John Perse and the
Imaginary Reader (Gèneve: Droz, 1988), Bernard Noël
(Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1991), and a volume co-authored with Jean-Jacques
Thomas, Poeticized Language: The Foundations of Contemporary French
Poetry (Penn State University Press, 1999).
