NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Hazard Adams is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. His latest books are The Farm at Richwood and Other Poems (1997) and Many Pretty Toys: A Novel (1999), the second part of his academic trilogy.
Ernst Behler died on September 16, 1997, having chaired the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington for twenty years. He was editor of the Friedrich Schlegel Critical Edition (Schöningh, 35 volumes) and had begun editing the August Wilhelm von Schlegel Critical Edition as well as The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Stanford, 20 volumes), and he was coeditor of Nietzsche-Studien. He was the recipient of two Guggenheims, the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize in the Humanities, and other international awards; his later books include Irony and the Discourse of Modernity (1990), Confrontations: Derrida/Heidegger/Nietzsche (1991), Frühromantik (1992), German Romantic Literary Theory (1993), and, with Aldo Venturelli, Friedrich Nietzsche (1994).
Rachel Bowlby holds a chair in modern literature at the University of York. Her books include Just Looking (1985), Still Crazy After All These Years: Women, Writing and Psychoanalysis (1992), Shopping with Freud (1993), Feminist Destinations and Further Essays on Virginia Woolf (1988 and 1997), and Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping (2000). She has translated books by Derrida and Lyotard, including Derrida's Of Hospitality (forthcoming from Stanford).
David Carroll is Professor of French and Chair of the Department of French and Italian at the University of California, Irvine. His works include French
Michael P. Clark is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of books on Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan, and articles on the history of literary theory, Early American literature, and the impact of the Vietnam war on popular culture in the U.S.
Jacques Derrida is Directeur d'étudesà l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Socialesà Paris. Since 1987 he has also held a joint appointment as Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Department of French and Italian at the University of California, Irvine. Among the most recent translations of his work are The Gift of Death, Specters of Marx, Politics of Friendship, Resistances—of Psychoanalysis, and The Monolingualism of the Other.
Denis Donoghue is University Professor and Henry James Professor of English and American Letters at New York University. His recent books include Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls (1995) and The Practice of Reading (1998).
Stanley Fish has recently become Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The Thirtieth Anniversary edition of Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost (1967) won the 1998 Hanford Book Award from the Milton Society of America. The Stanley Fish Reader, edited by H. Aram Veeser, has just been published by Blackwell's. Forthcoming publications include How Milton Works and The Trouble with Principle, both from Harvard University Press.
Wolfgang Iser is Professor Emeritus at the University of Constance, Germany, and Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. His recent books are Staging Politics: The Lasting Impact of Shakespeare's Histories (1993) and The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary Anthropology (1993). His forthcoming book is titled The Range of Interpretation.
Murray Krieger is University Research Professor at the University of California, Irvine, where he has taught since 1966. A founding Co-Director of the School of Criticism and Theory and founding Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute, he is the author of thirteen books and editor of four others. His current work-in-progress is a personal history of developments in literary theory spanning the more than half century of his participation in them.
J. Hillis Miller is UCI Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. He has published many books and essays on nineteenth and twentieth-century English and American literature and on literary theory. His most recent books are Reading Narrative (1998) and, with Manuel Asensi, Black Holes (1999). He is currently at work on a book on speech acts in Henry James, as well as a book on Speech Acts in Literature.
Wesley Morris is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at Rice University. He has published on contemporary literary theory and William Faulkner. At present he is writing a book on literature and performance theory.
Stephen G. Nichols is the James M. Beall Professor of French and Humanities at Johns Hopkins University, where he also chairs the Romance Languages Department. He has been Director of the School of Criticism and Theory (founded by Murray Krieger) since 1995. His most recent books are Medievalism and the Modernist Temper (with R. Howard Bloch, 1996) and The Whole Book (with Siegfried Wenzel, 1996).