Ross - Modernism and theory: a critical debate

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Charles F. Altieri is Stageberg Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published a number of books, including Postmodernism Now: Essays on Contemporaneity in the Arts (1998) and The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetic of Affects (2003).

C. D. Blanton is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He writes on modernism and modern poetry generally, and has co-edited Pocket Epics: British Poetry after Modernism and A Blackwell Companion to Post-War British and Irish Poetry. He is currently working on late modernist long forms.

Ian Buchanan is Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University. His books include Fredric Jameson: Live Theory (2007), and Deleuzism (2000). He has published widely on the work of Deleuze, de Certeau and Jameson, and is founding editor of Deleuze Studies.

Pamela Caughie is Professor of English at Loyola University, Chicago. Her published books include Passing and Pedagogy (1999), Virginia Woolf and Postmodernism (1991), and, as editor, Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproductions. Her articles have appeared in PMLA, Differences, and Modernism/ Modernity, among others.

Melba Cuddy-Keane is Professor of English and a Northrop Frye Scholar at the University of Toronto. She has published widely on modernism, globalism, narrative, and culture, including the acclaimed volume Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual and the Public Sphere (2003) and the Harcourt annotated edition of Between the Acts (2008).

Thomas S. Davis is an Assistant Professor of English at the Ohio State University. His research interests include literary modernism, philosophical aesthetics, and political theory. He is currently working on a book project entitled Distressed Histories: Late Modernism and Everyday Life, 19291945.

Susan Stanford Friedman is Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Womens Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, co-editor of the journal Contemporary Womens Writing, and author of Mappings: Feminism and theCultural Geographies of Encounter (1998), books on H. D. and Joyce, and articles on modernism, diaspora, feminism, and world literature.

Oleg Gelikman is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the Soka University of America. He has published articles and reviews in journals such as Angelaki, boundary2, PMLA, and Modern Language Notes.

Jane Goldman is Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow, and General Editor of the Cambridge University Press Edition of The Writings of Virginia Woolf. She has published a number of works on Woolf and on modernism, including Modernism, 19101945: Image to Apocalypse (2004) and Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents (1998).

Ben Highmore is Reader in Media Studies at the University of Sussex. His research concerns the culture of daily life, and his published books include Cityscapes (2005), Michel de Certeau (2002), and Everyday Life and Cultural Theory: An Introduction (2002). He is presently at work on a project entitled A Passion for Cultural Studies.

Fredric Jameson is the William A. Lane Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University, where he directs the Institute for Critical Theory. Author of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Duke University Press, 1991) and A Singular Modernity (Verso, 2002), his most recent works include Archeologies of the Future (Verso, 2005) and The Modernist Papers (Verso, 2007).

Martin Jay is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His published works include Cultural Semantics (1998), Refractions of Violence (2003), and Songs of Experience (2004). Professor Jays books have been widely translated, appearing in over fourteen languages worldwide.

Neil Levi is Associate Professor of English at Drew University. He is co-editor (with Michael Rothberg) of The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings (2003) and has published articles in such journals in October, New German Critique, and History & Memory. His book Modernism, Dirt, and the Jews is forthcoming from Fordham University Press.

Scott McCracken is Professor of English at Keele University in Staffordshire. His main research areas are literature and culture 18801920, modernism, gender, critical theory, and popular fiction. His most recent publication is Masculinities, Modernist Fiction and the Urban Public Sphere