Meet the Editors
Maynard Mack, General Editor (Ph.D. Yale University) is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University. His books include King Lear in Our Time (1965), The Garden and the City: Retirement and Politcs in the Later Poetry of Pope (1969), and Alexander Pope: A Life (1985), for which he won the Los Angeles Times 1986 Book Prize for best biography of the year, and Everybody's Shakespeare (1993).
Bernard M. W. Knox (Ph.D. Yale University) was for many years the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles’ Tragic Hero and His Time (1957), The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy (1964), Word and Action (1979), Essays Ancient and Modern (1989), The Oldest Dead White European Males (Norton, 1993), Backing Into the Future (Norton, 1994), and recently edited The Norton Book of Classical Literature (1993).
Indira Peterson (Ph.D. Harvard University) is Professor of Asian Studies at Mount Holyoke College. Her articles on Indian literature and culture have appeared in The Journal of Asian Studies, Literature East and West, and Asian Folklore Studies. Among her books are Poems to SÏva: The Hymns of the Tamil Saints (1989) and Design and Rhetoric in a Sanskrit Court Epic: The Kiratarjuniya of Bharavi (forthcoming).
Stephen Owen (Ph.D. Yale University) is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. His books include The Great Age of Chinese Poetry: The High T’ang (1980), Traditional Chinese Poetry and Poetics: An Omen of the World (1985), Remembrances: The Experience of the Past in Classical Chinese Literature (1986), and An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911 (Norton, 1996).
Jerome Clinton (Ph.D. University of Michigan) is Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. His translations include The Tragedy of Sohr·b and Rost·m, from the Persian epic The Sh’hn’me. He is the author of The Divan of Mauchihri Damghani: A Critical Study (1972) and a language text, Modern Persian: Spoken and Written (forthcoming), and has published many articles on Middle Eastern literature.
Robert Lyons Danly (Ph.D. Yale University) is Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Literature at the University of Michigan. Among his many translations are In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life of Jiguchi Ichiyo, with Nine of Her Best Short Stories (Norton, 1992), for which he won the American Book Award in Translation in 1982, and two translations of works by Ihara Saikaku, Worldly Reckonings and The Woman Who Lived for Love (forthcoming).
P.M. Pasinetti (Ph.D. Yale University) is Professor Emeritus of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of numerous articles, revies, and film scripts, as well as several novels, including Venetian Red (1960), From Academy Bridge (1970), and Dorsoduro (1983), and was the recipient of the Fiction Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
John Nierhorst (B.A. Cornell University) is a writer and translator who has published widely on native American literature, specializing in Aztec studies. His books include Four Masterworks of American Indian Literature (1974), The Red Swan: Myths and Tales of the American Indians (1976), The Mythology of Mexico and Central America (1990), and The Way of the Earth: Native America and the Environement (1994).
Sarah Lawall (Ph.D., Yale University) is Professor of Comparative Literature and Adjunct Professor of French at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her publications include Critics of Consciousness: The Existential Structures of Literature (1968), "The Self-person of Surrealism" (1984), "World Literature, Comparative Literature, Teaching Literature" (1990), and Reading World Literature: Theory, History, and Practice (1994).
F. Abiola Irele (Ph.D., 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 African Experience in Literature and Ideology (1990), and the author of numerous articles on African literature and intellectual movements.
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