Meet the Editors
Vincent B. Leitch, General Editor, is a 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, Professor Leitch is the author of the standard history, American Literary Criticism from the 1930s to the 1980s, as well as of Deconstructive Criticism; Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Poststructuralism; and Postmodernism-Local Effects, Global Flows.
William E. Cain is the Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of English and the director of American Studies 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 and F. O. Matthiessen and the Politics of Criticism. He is the editor of A Historical Guide to Henry David Thoreau and co-editor (with Diane Sadoff) of Teaching Literary Theory to Undergraduates. In addition, he has edited a selection of writings by William Lloyd Garrison, and published a critical and contextual edition of The Blithedale Romance.
Laurie A. Finke is professor and director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Kenyon College. A prominent medievalist and feminist critic, Professor Finke is the author of Feminist Theory, Women’s Writing and of Women’s Writing in English: Medieval England, as well as editor of Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers, The Sexual Economies of Medieval Romance, and From Renaissance to Restoration: Metamorphoses of the Drama.
Barbara E. Johnson is professor of English and comparative literature and Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University. She is a leading figure in contemporary literary theory and the author of The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading; A World of Difference; The Wake of Deconstruction; and The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race and Gender. Professor Johnson is also the translator of Jacques Derrida’s Dissemination.
John P. McGowan is professor of English and comparative literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a founding member of UNC’s Program in Cultural Studies. First trained in Victorian literature, Professor McGowan is a leading scholar of postmodernism and of the intersection of political theory and literary theory. He is the author of Representation and Revelation: Victorian Realism from Carlyle to Yeats, Postmodernism and Its Critics, and Hannah Arendt: An Introduction, and is co-editor (with Craig Calhoun) of Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics.
Jeffrey L. Williams is associate professor of English at the University of Missouri. He has published widely on theory, the novel, and the politics of the profession. He is the author of Theory and the Novel: Narrative Reflexivity in the British Tradition and is the editor of PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy and The Institution of Literature. Since 1992, Professor Williams has edited the literary and critical journal Minnesota Review.
Copyright © 2005, W. W. Norton & Company. All rights reserved.
XHTML, CSS, 508