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is a Professor of
English and Chair of the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley.
Her research interests include nineteenth-century British literature, British novels,
Victorian nonfiction prose, and British women's literature. She is the author of
Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820
(1995), and Practicing New Historicism, with Stephen Greenblatt (2001), and the
co-editor of The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth
Century, with Thomas Laqueur (1987).
works on European
cultural history. A founding editor of Representations,
he writes about the history of the body and of sexuality (Solitary
Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation, 2003) and about the
history of death (a new book, The Dead Among the Living,
is almost finished).
teaches modern European history
in the Rhetoric Department at Berkeley. He works on the history of political
and legal thought, modern epistemologies, and the long history of Artificial
Intelligence. He has published Enlightenment Aberrations: Error and
Revolution in France (2002) and is now writing a book on eighteenth-century
concepts of the political.
is Associate Professor
of English at the University of California at Berkeley and author of
The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession
(University of Chicago, 2004). Currently, he is working on a new
project on rumor, promiscuous speech, and slavery's archive.
is the George C. and
Helen N. Pardee Chair and Professor of Modern Art at the University
of California, Berkeley. His books include The Absolute Bourgeois:
Artists and Politics in France, 1848-1851 (1973), Image
of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution (1973),
The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His
Followers (1984), and Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from
a History of Modernism (1999). He is currently working on a
book about two paintings by Nicolas Poussin, Landscape with
a Calm and Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake,
and on a book about the depiction of ground level in painting.
is a Professor of
Rhetoric and Scandinavian at the University of California, Berkeley.
Her research interests include film history and theory, narrative
history and theory, and the literature and culture of early Northern
Europe. Her publications include Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender
in the Modern Horror Film (1992); "Dancin' in the Rain," Critical Inquiry
21 (1995); and Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Critical Guide, co-edited with
John Lindow (1985). She's at work on a book on the ways that Anglo-American
legal process have given rise and shape to some of the most distinctively
Anglo-American forms of narrative and cinematic process.
teaches the history and theory of ancient and modern art in the Department of History of Art at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of books on prehistoric art, ancient Egyptian art, method and theory in art history and archaeology, contemporary sculpture, and the history of psychoanalysis. He has special interests in the interrelation of theories of mind and theories of imagistic and pictorial meaning. Currently he is working on a book on homoerotic aesthetics from the 1750s to the 1920s and a study of the logical foundations of visual culture.
, Professor of English
at the University of California at Berkeley, works on the novel,
nineteenth-century British literature and culture, and Scotland
in the periods of Enlightenment and Romanticism. His books include
Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel
(Cambridge, 1992), Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh
(Princeton, 2007), and a co-edited collection of essays, Scotland
and the Borders of Romanticism (Cambridge, 2004).
teaches U.S. History
at the University of California at Berkeley and is the author of
City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum
New York (Columbia University Press, 1998), and The Postal Age:
The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America
(University of Chicago Press, 2006).
is Professor of European
History at the University of California at Berkeley. She writes
about politics and culture since the French Revolution, and is author,
most recently of The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became
Modern (Princeton, 2001). She also recently published an article
entitled "The Rise of Intellectual Property, 700BC-2000AD: An Idea
in the Balance" in Daedelus (Spring: 2002).
is Associate Professor
of English at the University of California at Berkeley, and author
of Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381 (California,
1994).
is Professor of English
and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley.
She is the author of Rhetoric, Prudence, and Skepticism in the
Renaissance (Cornell, 1985), Machiavellian Rhetoric: From
the Counter-Reformation to Milton (Princeton, 1994), Wayward
Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674
(Princeton, 2004), and numerous articles on Renaissance literature
and political theory. She has also co-edited Machiavelli and the
Discourse of Literature (Cornell, 1993), and, with Lorna Hutson,
Rhetoric and Law in the Early Modern Period (Yale, 2001).
is Professor of English at
the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of An Empire Nowhere:
England, America, and Literature from Utopia to The Tempest
(Berkeley, 1992), and Shakespeare's Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater
in Renaissance England (Chicago, 2002). He is currently completing a
companion volume to Shakespeare's Tribe entitled Shakespeare Only.
is Professor of German Literature
at the University of California at Berkeley. He has published books and articles
on late medieval religious traditions. Currently, he is working on ascetic practices,
the senses, and the arousal of the imagination. Recent publications include
In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal (American trans. 2007),
and Die Kunst des Begehrens: Askese, Dekadenz, und Sinnlichkeit (2007).
is Associate Professor of English at the University of
California, Berkeley, and teaches courses in Asian American literature,
postcolonial theory, and American Studies. She is the author of
America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945
(Princeton, 2005), which won an outstanding book award from the
Association for Asian American Studies and honorable mention for the
John Hope Franklin Prize from the Association for American Studies.
Currently, she is working on theoretical questions of Asian American
literary history.
is an Associate Professor
of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of
Melville's Anatomies (1999) and the co-editor of Frederick
Douglass and Herman Melville: Essays in Relation (2008). He is completing a
book entitled Philadelphia Stories about race, manners, violence, and
freedom between the United States Constitution and the Civil War. He recently
has published essays on Melville and disability, fiction and fact in Melville's
Typee, Harriet Beecher Stowe and race, and the quest for an American
literary criticism.
is Professor of Music at the University of
California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on opera and on European music of the nineteenth
century, with particular interests in the historical documentation of singing and stage movement
in opera, the representation of gender on the nineteenth-century stage, and the role of opera
in the formation of political opinion. She is author of Mimomania: Music and Gesture in
Nineteenth-Century Opera (California, 2004) and of the articles on Vincenzo Bellini and
Gaetano Donizetti in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. She edited the
collection Siren Songs: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera and
(with Roger Parker) Reading Critics Reading: Opera and Ballet Criticism from the Revolution
to 1848. Smart prepared the edition of Donizetti's last opera Dom Sébastien for
recent performances in Bologna and London, and she serves as co-editor of the Cambridge
Opera Journal. She is now completing a book that traces the intersections between opera,
political opinion, and literary romanticism in Italy before Verdi.
is a Professor of History and Italian Studies Emeritus and former
Director of Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley.
His scholarly interests range from Renaissance Italy and early modern cultures to
philosophies of history and the institutional practices of scholarship in the humanities.
His most recent book is Varieties of Cultural History:
Collected Essays (2002).
writes about modern Japanese literature and culture.
He is the author of The Writings of Kôda Aya (Yale) and, forthcoming, The Culture
of Japanese Fascism (Duke), and The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism (California). He is
writing a book comparing Japanese and Jewish responses to atrocity, about which he also teaches,
and is completing an annotated translation of Tokyo as an Idea: Isoda Kôichi's Essays on
Literature and Space (California). Tansman has also published on Japanese cultural criticism,
popular music, film, East-West cultural relations, Area Studies, and the sublime in Japanese
literature. He has also translated Japanese fiction and criticism.
is an Professor of History at
the University of California, Berkeley. He is a cultural historian of modern Britain
and the author of Politics and the People: A Study in English Political Culture,
c. 1815-1867 (1993), editor of Re-reading the Constitution:
New Narratives in the Political History of England's Long Nineteenth Century (1996),
and Hunger. A Modern History (Harvard University Press, 2007).
is Associate Professor in
the Department of Anthropology and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of
Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
He is the author of Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet
Generation (Princeton, 2006), which won the 2007 Vucinich Book Prize for the most
important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies from the
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. He is working on a
book on urban transformation in postsocialist St. Petersburg and on a book about
experimental artistic scenes in Russia at the time the Soviet Union was imploding
(late 1980s–early 1990s).
is Class of 1942 Professor
of English, Emeritus, at the University of California at Berkeley.
He is the author of books on Spenser's Faerie Queene and
Virgil's Eclogues and, most recently, of What Is Pastoral?
His current project is "The Renaissance Lyric in England."
, formerly Professor
of the History of Art at the University of California at Berkeley,
is the author of The Decoration of the Torre de la Parada,
The Art of Describing, Rembrandt's Enterprise,
The Making of Rubens and, with Michael Baxandall, Tiepolo
and the Pictorial Intelligence.
is Dean of the College and
Professor of Music at Brown University. Her research interests include French musical modernism,
popular music, and film. She is the editor, with Philip
Bohlman, of Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons
(Chicago, 1992) and the author of Decadent Enchantments: The
Revival of Gregorian Chant at Solesmes (California, 1998),
which won the Deems-Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers,
Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) in 1999. She is currently completing
a monograph on singing in the French Third Republic, tentatively
titled Voice Lessons: A Cultural Study of Mélodie.
is Augustus R.
Street Professor of French at Yale University. He is the author
of Etymologies and Genealogies, The Scandal of the Fabliaux,
Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love,
and God's Plagiarist: Being an Account of the Fabulous Industry
and Irregular Commerce of the Abbé Migne.
is Cogan University
Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. A founding editor
and original co-chair of Representations, he is the author
of nine books, including Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More
to Shakespeare ; Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation
of Social Energy in Renaissance England ; Learning to Curse:
Essays in Early Modern Culture; Marvelous Possessions:
The Wonder of the New World; Practicing New Historicism (with
Catherine Gallagher), and Hamlet in Purgatory. He is the
general editor of The Norton Shakespeare and the associate
general editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature,
as well as the editor of many other volumes. In 2002 he served as
president of the Modern Language Association and is among the first
recipients of the Mellon Distinguished Humanist Prize.
is Berry Professor of English Literature at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. She is the author of The
Usurer's Daughter: Male Friendship and Fictions of Women in Sixteenth
Century England (Routledge, 1994) and recently editor, with
Victoria Kahn, of Rhetoric and Law in Early Modern Europe
(Yale, 2001). She is currently editing Ben Jonson's Discoveries
(1641) for the Cambridge Complete Works of Ben Jonson,
and working on a study of "suspicion" in law, rhetoric and literature
in Renaissance England.
is Provost and Senior
Vice President for Academic Affairs at The Johns Hopkins University.
A specialist in 18th- and 19th-century English literature and literary
theory, he is the author of Personification and the Sublime:
Milton to Coleridge.
is David Boies Professor of Law at Yale University. He is the author of
Constitutional Domains: Democracy, Community, Management
(Harvard University Press 1995); the co-author, (with K. Anthony
Appiah, Judith Butler, Thomas C. Grey and Reva Siegel) of Prejudicial
Appearances: The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law (Duke
University Press 2001); the editor of Censorship and Silencing:
Practices of Cultural Regulation (Getty Research Institute
for the History of Art and the Humanities: Issues & Debates 1998)
and of Law and the Order of Culture (University of California
Press 1991); the co-editor (with Nancy Rosenblum) of Civil Society
and Government (Princeton University Press 2002); the co-editor
(with Carla Hesse) of Human Rights in Political Transitions:
Gettysburg to Bosnia (Zone Books 1999); and the co-editor (with
Michael Rogin) of Race and Representation: Affirmative Action
(Zone Books 1998).
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, Associate Editor, is
a writer and professional editor. She is the author of six books
of poetry, the most of recent of which is Enthusiasm: Odes & Otium
(Adventures in Poetry, 2006). Her own work has appeared in a number of anthologies,
including Nineteen Lines: A Drawing Center Writing Anthology (Drawing Center/Roof Books, 2007) and Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing
by Women (Talisman House, 1998), and her translations (with
Elena Balashova) of the contemporary Russian poet Nadezhda Kondakova
appear in Third Wave: New Russian Poetry (University of Michigan,
1992). She is the recipient of awards from the California Arts Council,
the Fund for Poetry, the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation,
and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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