Vincent B. Leitch is a George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the
University of Oklahoma where he holds the Paul and Carol Daube
Sutton Chair in English. A foremost historian of contemporary
literary criticism and theory, he is the author of the standard
history, American Literary Criticism from the 1930s to the 1980s as
well as Deconstructive Criticism and Cultural Criticism, Literary
Theory, Poststructuralism (all three books published by Columbia
UP), Postmodernism: Local Effects, Global Flows (SUNY Press),
Theory Matters (Routledge), Living with Theory (Blackwell), and
American Literary Criticism since the 1930s, 2nd edition
(Routledge). William E. Cain is the Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of
English at Wellesley College. A scholar of American literature and
American literary criticism, Professor Cain is the author of The
Crisis in Criticism: Theory, Literature, and Reform in English
Studies (Johns Hopkins UP), F. O. Matthiessen and the Politics of
Criticism (U of Wisconsin Press), and Literary Criticism,
1900-1950: The Cambridge History of American Literature (Cambridge
UP) as well as the editor or co-editor of several college
textbooks, including An Introduction to Literature (Longman),
American Literature (Penguin), The Little, Brown Reader (Longman),
and Literature for Composition (Longman). Laurie A. Finke is
Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies program at Kenyon
College. A prominent medievalist and feminist critic, Professor
Finke is the author of Cinematic Illuminations: The Middle Ages on
Film (Johns Hopkins UP), King Arthur and the Myth of History
(University Press of Florida), Feminist Theory, Women’s Writing
(Cornell UP) and Women’s Writing in English: The Middle Ages
(Longman) and the editor of Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers
(Cornell UP). John McGowan is the Ruel W. Tyson, Jr. Distinguished
Professor of the Humanities and Director of the Institute for the
Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill. A leading critic of postmodernism and social theories
relating to literature, he is the author of Postmodernism and its
Critics (Cornell UP), Hannah Arendt: A Critical Introduction (U of
Minnesota P), Democracy’s Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of
Cultural Politics (Cornell UP), and American Liberalism: An
Interpretation for Our Time (UNC Press), and editor (with Craig
Calhoun) of Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics (U of
Minnesota P). T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is Professor of French,
Professor and Director of African American and Diaspora Studies,
and Director of the W. T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern
French Studies at Vanderbilt University. A leading scholar in Black
European Studies and comparative Black Diaspora literatures and
cultures and theories of race and feminism, she is the author of
Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women (NYU
Press), Negritude Women (U of Minnesota Press), Black Venus:
Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in
French (Duke UP), and Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms (Rowman
& Littlefield), and she has edited or co-edited five books,
including The Speech: Race and Barack Obama's "A More Perfect
Union" (Bloomsbury).
Jeffrey J. Williams is Professor of English and of Literary and
Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of
Theory and the Novel: Narrative Reflexivity in the English
Tradition (Cambridge UP) and the editor of PC Wars: Politics and
Theory in the Academy (Routledge), The Institution of Literature
(SUNY Press), and Critics at Work: Interviews (NYU Press). He has
also published journalism in venues such as The Village Voice,
Dissent, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Since 1992, he has
been the editor of the literary and critical journal, the minnesota
review.
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