Boitani Piero - English studies in transition: papers from the ESSE Inaugural Conference

Elleke Boehmer is a novelist and a Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds. Her publications include Screens Against the Sky (1990), An Immaculate Figure (1993) and a forthcoming Opus volume on colonial and post-colonial literature.

Terence Brown is a Lecturer in English at Trinity College, Dublin. He was elected a Fellow of the college in 1976 and appointed Associate Professor in 1981. His principal publications are Louis MacNeice: Sceptical Vision (1975), Northern Voices: Poets from Ulster (1975), Ireland: A Social and Cultural History (1981) and Irelands Literature: Selected Essays (1988). He was a contributing editor to The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (1991). He has recently published an edition of James Joyces Dubliners and is currently at work on a critical biography of the poet W.B.Yeats.

J.B.Bullen was formerly Junior Research Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford, and is now Reader in English Literature at Reading University. He has a long-standing interest in the relationship between literature and the visual arts, and has published on the writing of George Eliot, Dickens, Browning, Ruskin, Pater and many others in this field. He is author of The Expressive Eye: Fiction and Perception in the Work of Thomas Hardy (1986) Post- Impressionism in England: The Critical Reception (1988) and is editor of Roger Frys Vision and Design (1981) and Clive Bells Art (1987).

Marc De la Ruelle is a Lecturer in Translation Studies at the Provincial Instituut voor Hoger Onderwijs (PIHO) in Gent, Belgium.

Theo Dhaen is Professor of English and American Literature at Leiden University. He has published Text to Reader: A Communicative Approach to Fowles, Barth, Cortzar, and Boon (1983), and books in Dutch on American literary history and postmodernism. He is series editor (together with Hans Bertens) of Postmodern Studies, co-editor of the ongoing loose-leaf Post-War Literatures in English: A Lexicon of Contemporary Authors (first published 1988), and further has edited or co-edited volumes on English, American and Comparative Literature.

William Dodd teaches English Literature at the Faculty of Education (Arezzo), University of Siena. He has published various studies of Shakespeare plays (including Measure for Measure, Richard II and Alls Well That Ends Well) and of twentieth-century poets (Eliot, Lawrence, Muir).

Juliette Dor is the head of the Medieval Language and Literature Department at the University of Lige. She teaches Medieval English Literature, the History of English Language, Comparative Grammar, Linguistics and Old Icelandic.

Joo Ferreira Duarte, a founding member of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies, is currently Associate Professor in the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, where he has been teaching and doing research in the field of English Literature, Literary Theory and Comparative Literature.

Herbert Grabes is Professor of English and American Literature at the Justus-Leibig-Universitt Giessen (Germany). He has published widely on Renaissance English literature, twentieth-century American literature and literary theory and is the author of Fictitious Biographies: Vladimir Nabokovs English Novels (1977); FiktionImitationsthetik: Was ist Literatur? (1981); The Mutable Glass. Mirror-imagery in titles and texts of the Middle Ages and the English Renaissance (1982); Das englische Pamphlet I:15211640 (1990); and is co-editor of REAL (The Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature).

Adolphe Haberer is Professor of English Literature at the Universit Lumire-Lyon 2. He is the author of Louis MacNeice: lhomme et la posie (1986) and the editor of De Joyce Stoppard: critures de la modernit (1991). He has also published articles on Yeats, MacNeice, Dylan Thomas, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon.

Pilar Hidalgo is Professor of English at Mlaga University. She is the author of several books and essays on British drama and fiction and has just completed Womens Time (forthcoming), a study of the connections between feminist theory and contemporary womens fiction.

Frank Kermode is King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge. His most recent works include An Appetite for Poetry (1989).

Ingrid Kuczynski is Senior Lecturer at Martin-Luther-Universitt Halle- Wittenberg.

Jean-Jacques Lecercle is Professor of English at the University of Nan-terre. He is the author of Philosophy Through the Looking Glass (1985), Frankenstein: Mythe et philosophie (1987) and The Violence of Language (1991).

Agostino Lombardo is Professor of English at Rome University La Sapienza and a member of the Accademia dei Lincei. He has published widely on English and American literature and is now engaged in the translation of the complete dramatic works of Shakespeare for Feltcinelli Editore. Among his translations for the theatre is that of The Tempest (1978) for Giorgio Strehler.

Donatella Pallotti is a Lecturer in English Language and Literature at the University of Florence. In the field of linguistic criticism she has published a study concerning the interpersonal function of language in poetry, Weaving Words: A Linguistic Reading of Poetry (1990).

Jina Politi, formerly a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, is currently Professor of English Literature, Department of English, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. She is the author of The Novel and its Presuppositions: Changes in the Conceptual Structure of Novels in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1976) and of various articles on English, Greek and Comparative Literature.