NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ELS ANDRINGA teaches literary theory at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Her current fields of research are the empirical study of reading and historical reception. Her work on the latter includes: Wandel der Interpretation: Kafkas Vor dem Gesetz im Spiegel der Literaturwissenschaft (1994). GERALD BÄR studied at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg, Germany, and Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, where he received his PhD and is currently Assistant Professor. Publications include: Das Motiv des Doppelgängers als Spaltungsphantasie in der Literatur und im deutschen Stummfilm (2005), Ossian in Portugal (in The Reception of Ossian in Europe, 2004), Goethe und Ossian (als bürgerliche Utopie betrachtet) (in Electivas. Colóquio dos 250 anos do nascimento de J. W. Goethe, 2001). NEIL CORNWELL is (Research) Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of Bristol. His book The absurd in literature is published by Manchester University Press (August 2006). His other books include The Literary Fantastic (1990), of which a reprint is in progress, James Joyce and the Russians (1992), and Vladimir Nabokov ( Writers and Their Work, 1999). He has also edited Reference Guide to Russian Literature (1998) and The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature (2001), as well as being an editor of The Literary Encyclopedia (www.litencyc.com). SIBYLLE ERLE completed her dissertation From Face Values to Inner Visions: Blake and Lavater s Perception of Body and Soul in 2004. She teaches part-time and holds the position of Visiting Junior Research Fellow at the Centre of Anglo-German Cultural Relations, Queen
vi Notes on contributors Mary College, University of London. She is currently completing a study of Blake, Lavater and Physiognomy. PETER FRANCE is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Edinburgh and a former president of the BCLA. He has published many critical studies on French and Russian literature and translations of Russian poetry. He is the editor of the New Oxford Companion to Literature in French and the Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation, and is currently (with Stuart Gillespie) General Editor of the Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. DANIEL FRIED, a 2003 Harvard Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, is currently Associate Professor of English at National Central University, Taiwan. His work, on the history of literary criticism in Europe and China, has been accepted to such journals as Review of English Studies, Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, and Reviews, and Comparative Literature, among others. He is currently finishing a book project on the disparate social contexts of allegoresis. ANDREW GIBSON is Research Professor in Modern Literature and Theory in the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London. His recent books include Joyce s Revenge: History, Politics and Aesthetics in»ulysses«(2002) and James Joyce: A Critical Life (2006). His Beckett and Badiou: The Pathos of Intermittency will appear later in 2006, as will Joyce, Ireland and Britain, a collection of essays edited with Len Platt. MARTA GOLDMANN graduated from Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem University, Budapest, in Hungarian and English literature and linguistics and teaches Modern English literature at the Berzsenyi Daniel College in Szombathely. Following further postdoc research on Joyce at the James Joyce Centre of the University of Antwerp in 2003 2004 her dissertation was published in 2005 under the title James Joyce kritikai fogadtatása Magyarországon (James Joyce s Critical Reception in Hungary). RÜDIGER GÖRNER is Professor of German at Queen Mary, University of London, and Founding Director of the Centre for Anglo- German Cultural Relations at Queen Mary. Between 1999 and 2004 he was Director of The Institute of Germanic Studies and founded
Notes on contributors vii the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature. Recent book publications include: Nietzsches Kunst. Annäherung an einen Denkartisten (2000), Literarische Betrachtungen zur Musik (2001), Grenzen, Schwellen, Übergänge. Zur Poetik des Transitorischen (2001), Londoner Fragmente. Eine Metropole im Wort (2003), Rainer Maria Rilke. Im Herzwerk der Sprache (2004), Thomas Mann Der Zauber des Letzten (2005). As a literary critic he writes for Die Zeit, FAZ, Tagesspiegel, Die Presse and NZZ. NATASHA GRIGORIAN has recently completed a D.Phil. in European Literature at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. Her published work started with an article in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, The Writings of J.-K. Huysmans and Gustave Moreau s Painting: Affinity or Divergence? (2004). Her comparative research on European Symbolism has been funded by the AHRC, supervised at Oxford and Cambridge, and conducted in cooperation with Université de Paris- Sorbonne (Paris IV), Musée Gustave Moreau (Paris), and Moscow State Lomonosov University. FRANCIS LAMPORT is Emeritus Fellow and Tutor in German at Worcester College, Oxford. His publications include Lessing and the Drama (1981), German Classical Drama (1990), translations of German classical drama (Schiller) and articles on German literature and drama of the classical period. WILLY MALEY is Professor of Renaissance Studies in the Department of English Literature at the University of Glasgow. His recent publications include Nation, State, and Empire in English Renaissance Literature: Shakespeare to Milton (2003) and as co-editor, with David J. Baker, British Identities and English Renaissance Literature (2002), and with Andrew Murphy, Shakespeare and Scotland (2004). He is a Fellow of the English Association. ERNEST SCHONFIELD is Visiting Lecturer in the Department of German at University College, University of London, and Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Comparative Literature at King s College, University of London. His forthcoming book is entitled Art and its Uses in Thomas Mann s Felix Krull (2008). Essays on Thomas Mann, Maupassant, and Brecht.
viii Notes on contributors Guest editor ELINOR SHAFFER FBA is a Senior Fellow in the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies of the School of Advanced Study, University of London and Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge, and Director of the Research Project The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe, of which ten volumes have so far been published. Besides her books Kubla Khan and The Fall of Jerusalem: The Mythological School in Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature, 1770 1880 (1975) and Erewhons of the Eye: Samuel Butler as Painter, Photographer and Art Critic (1988), she has many publications on the Romantic period in England and Germany, and has also edited numerous volumes, including The Third Culture: Literature and Science (1998), and 24 volumes of Comparative Criticism from 1979 to 2003. Forthcoming his her volume (edited with Edoardo Zuccato) of The Reception of S. T. Coleridge in Europe (Continuum 2007). PATRÍCIA OLIVEIRA DA SILVA MCNEILL has a Masters by Research from University College Dublin (2002) and is currently finishing a POCTIfunded PhD at King s College, University of London. Her forthcoming thesis is a comparative study of the poetry of Fernando Pessoa and W. B. Yeats entitled The Imperative of Style. SIMON THOMAS is an AHRC doctoral scholar with the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, where he is completing a thesis on the late poetics of Friedrich Hölderlin. CHRISTOPHER THORNHILL is Professor of Politics at the University of Glasgow. His recent books include: Political Theory in Modern Germany (1999), Karl Jaspers: Politics and Metaphysics (2002), as co-author, Niklas Luhmann s Theory of Politics and Law (2003), as co-editor, Luhmann on Law and Politics: Critical Appraisals and Applications (2006), German Political Philosophy: The Metaphysics of Law (2006). MARGARET TUDEAU-CLAYTON has recently been appointed Professor of English Literature at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. Working principally in the field of early modern English literature her most important book is Jonson, Shakespeare and early modern Virgil (1998). She has also co-edited two essay collections, most recently, Textures of Renaissance Knowledge (2003). She is currently working on a book on Shakespeare and the ideology of linguistic practices in
Notes on contributors ix early modern England and a collection of essays on Shakespeare and England. Co-editor ROBERT WENINGER is Professor of German at King s College London. His books include: Arno Schmidts Joyce-Rezep tion 1957 1970. Ein Beitrag zur Poetik Arno Schmidts (1982), The Mookse and the Gripes. Ein Kom men tar zu James Joyces»Fin ne gans Wake«(1984), Literarische Kon ven tionen: Theoretische Modelle / Historische An wen dung