Wolfreys - New critical thinking: criticism to come

New Critical Thinking

New Critical Thinking

Criticism to Come

Edited by Julian Wolfreys

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Contents

Contributors

Christine Berberich is a Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary English Literature at the University of Portsmouth. Her research specialism focuses on English national identity and its creation on the one hand, and on post-memorial Holocaust writing on the other. Her publications include the book The Image of the English Gentleman in 20th Century Literature: Englishness and Nostalgia (Ashgate, 2007), the co-edited collections These Englands: A Conversation on National Identity (Manchester University Press, 2011), Land & Identity: Theory, Memory & Practice (Rodopi, 2012) and Affective Landscapes in Literature, Art and Everyday Life (Ashgate, 2015), the edited collection The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), as well as essays and articles on authors as diverse as Ian Fleming, W. G. Sebald, Julian Barnes, Rachel Seiffert and Uwe Timm. She is, with Neil Campbell, series editor of Place, Memory, Affect with Rowman & Littlefield. Currently she is working on an edited collection dedicated to Trauma & Memory: The Holocaust in Contemporary Culture and has started planning a monograph on Perpetrator Fictions.

Catherine Bernard is Professor of English Literature and Art History at Paris Diderot University. She has published extensively on contemporary art (Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Rachel Whiteread, but also Gillian Wearing and Sam Taylor-Wood) as well as recent English fiction (Martin Amis, Peter Ackroyd, Pat Barker and John Lanchester). Among her recent publications, one may mention Deller, Wallinger, Wearing: Towards an Ethics of Visual Interpellation, in Jean-Michel Ganteau and Christine Reynier (eds), Ethics of Alterity, Confrontation and Responsibility in 19th to 21st Centuries British Art (Presses universitaires de la Mditerrane, 2015). Her research has also turned to Virginia Woolf, the Bloomsbury Group and, more widely, modernist aesthetics. She has co-edited several volumes of articles on Woolf and is the author of a critical study of Mrs Dalloway (Gallimard, 2006). She has also published a critical edition and translation of Flush (Gallimard, 2012) and a translation and critical edition of a selection of Woolfs essays (Gallimard, 2015). She is currently working towards a monograph on the body politic(s) of contemporary British literature and visual arts to be published in 2017.

Mary Ann Caws is Distinguished Professor of English, French and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. An expert on surrealism and modern English and French literature, who works on the interrelations of visual and literary texts, her recent publications include Undoing Art, with Michel Delville (Luca Sossella Editore, 2016), Glorieuses modernistes: art, criture et modernit au fminin, with Anne Reynes-Delobel (Presses universitaires de Lige, 2016) and Miracles and Reason: The Life and Work of Blaise Pascal (Reaktion Books, 2017).

Praic Finnerty is Reader in English and American Literature at the University of Portsmouth. He is the author of Emily Dickinsons Shakespeare (University of Massachusetts Press, 2006) and co-author of Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennysons Circle (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). His scholarly essays have appeared in Literature & History, Prose Studies, Comparative American Studies, Critical Survey, Genders, Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations and the Emily Dickinson Journal. His next book, Dickinson and Her British Contemporaries: Victorian Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America, is forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press.

Anton Froeyman is a post-doctoral researcher at the department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent University. He has MAs in history and philosophy, and a PhD in philosophy. His research is about the crossroads between history, ethics and experience. He has published articles in (among others) History and Theory, Rethinking History, Historical Methods and Journal of the Philosophy of History. He has also published a book, History, Ethics and the Recognition of the Other (Routledge, 2015), in which he argues for a Levinasian view on the writing of history.

J. Hillis Miller is UCI Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Literature and English Emeritus at the University of California at Irvine. He has published many books and essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and on literary theory, including Communities in Fiction (Fordham University Press, 2015); Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols, co-authored with Tom Cohen and Claire Colebrook (Open Humanities Press, 2016); and AnInnocent Abroad: Lectures in China (Northwestern University Press, 2015), which gathers fifteen of the more than thirty lectures Miller gave at various universities in China between 1988 and 2012. Miller is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of over a hundred articles, fourteen scholarly books and ten edited volumes. Her authored books include, most recently, Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape (Columbia University Press, 2016) and Earth and World: Philosophy After the Apollo Missions (Columbia University Press, 2015). Earlier works include Technologies of Life and Death: From Cloning to Capital Punishment (Fordham University Press, 2013), Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Film (Columbia University Press, 2012), Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human (Columbia University Press, 2009), Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex, and the Media (Columbia University Press, 2007), The Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Theory of Oppression (University of Minnesota Press, 2004), Noir Anxiety: Race, Sex, and Maternity in Film Noir (University of Minnesota Press, 2002) and perhaps her best-known work, Witnessing: Beyond Recognition (University of Minnesota Press, 2001). She has published in