Meet the Editors
Sarah Lawall, Ph.D. Yale, is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her publications include Critics of Consciousness: The Existential Structures of Literature and Reading World Literature: Theory, History, Practice.
Jerome W. Clinton, Ph.D. Michigan, is Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. His publications include two book-length translations of two sections of the Persian national epic, the Shahnameh: The Tragedy of Sohrab and Rostam and In the Dragon’s Claws: The Story of Rostam and Esfandiyar.
F. Abiola Irele, Doctorat d’Université, Sorbonne, is Professor of African, French, and Comparative Literatures at The Ohio State University. He is the editor of The Selected Poems of Senghor and the author of The African Experience in Literature and Ideology.
Heather James, Ph.D. Berkeley, is Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Shakespeare’s Troy: Drama, Politics, and the Translation of Empire. New to this edition.
Stephen Owen, Ph.D. Yale, is James Bryant Conant Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. His books include The Great Age of Chinese Poetry: The High T’ang; Traditional Chinese Poetry and Poetics: An Omen of the World; Remembrances: The Experience of the Past in Classical Chinese Literature; and An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911.
Lee Patterson, Ph.D. Yale, is F. W. Hilles Professor of English at Yale University. He is the author of Chaucer and the Subject of History; Literary Practice and Social Change in Britain, 1380–1530; and Negotiating the Past: The Historical Understanding of Medieval Literature. New to this edition.
Indira Viswanathan Peterson, Ph.D. Harvard, is Professor of Asian Studies at Mount Holyoke College. Her publications include Poems to SĪva: The Hymns of the Tamil Saints.
Patricia Meyer Spacks, Ph.D. Berkeley, is Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Her publications include An Argument of Images: The Poetry of Alexander Pope; The Female Imagination; The Adolescent Idea: Myths of Youth and the Adult Imagination; Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels; and Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind.
William G. Thalmann, Ph.D. Yale, is Professor of Classics at the University of Southern California. His publications include The Swineherd and the Bow: Representations of Class in the Odyssey. New to this edition.
Editors Emeriti or Deceased:
- Maynard Mack (Late of Yale University)
- Bernard Knox (Director Emeritus, Center for Hellenic Studies)
- Robert Lyons Danly (Late of the University of Michigan)
- Kenneth Douglas (Late of Columbia University)
- Howard E. Hugo (Late of the University of California, Berkeley)
- John C. McGalliard (Late of the University of Iowa)
- P. M. Pasinetti (Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature Emeritus, UCLA)
- René Wellek (Late of Yale University)
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