ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

Peter I. Barta is Professor of Russian and Cultural Studies and Head of Russian at the University of Surrey. His chief publications are the book Bely, Joyce and Döblin: Peripatetics in the City Novel (University Press of Florida, 1996), and the edited volumes Russian Literature and the Classics (Harwood, 1996) and Metamorphoses in Russian Modernism (Central European University Press, 2000). He is also author of numerous articles and editor of volumes in Russian and comparative literature.

Stacy Burton is associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her publications include essays on Bakhtin, twentieth-century narrative, and literary history in Modern Language Quarterly, Comparative Literature, and Modern Philology.

Jeffrey S. Carnes is Associate Professor of Classics at Syracuse University. He is the author of The Uses of Aiakos: Pindar and the Aiginetan Imaginary (forthcoming, Rowman and Littlefield) and numerous articles on Greek poetry, mythology, and literary theory, including “The Ends of the Earth: Fathers, Ephebes, and Wild Women in Nemean 4 and 5”, (Arethusa, 1996).

Nancy Felson is Professor of Classics at the University of Georgia. Her publications include Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics (1994); Contexualizing Classics: Ideology, Performance, Dialogue (edited with Thomas Falkner and David Konstan 1999); ed., Semiotics and Classical Studies, Arethusa, 16/1–2 (1983); ed., Symbols in Ancient Greek Poetry and Myth, Classical World, 74/2 (1980); “Vicarious Transport in Pindar's Pythian Four”, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology (2000); “Paradigms of Paternity: A Study of the Gentle Father in Homer's Odyssey”, in Euphrosyne, ed. A. Rengakos and J. Kazazis (2000); “Bakhtinian Alterity, Homeric Rapport”, Arethusa, 26/2 (1993).

José Lanters is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and formerly Associate Professor of Classics and Letters at the University of Oklahoma. She has published numerous articles on Irish fiction and drama. Her books include Missed Understandings: A Study of Stage Adaptations of the Works of James Joyce (1988), and Troubled Histories, Troubled Fictions: Twentieth-Century Anglo-Irish Prose (edited with Theo D–haen, 1995). Her new book. Unauthorized Versions: Irish Menippean Satire 1919–1952, is forthcoming from the Catholic University of America Press.

Daniel B. McGlathery is Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His publications include “Reversals of Platonic Love in Petronius' Satyricon”, in Rethinking Sexuality: Foucault and Classical Antiquity (1997), and “Commendatam Bonitatem: Sexual Spectacle and Linguistic Deception in the Philomela's Daughter Episode of Petronius' Satyricon”, in Pacific Coast Philology, 33 (1998). He is currently completing a volume entitled Petronius' “Satyricon” in its Cynic and Neronian Ideological Contexts.

Dean McWilliams is Professor of English at Ohio University. His book-length publications include The Narratives of Michel Butor (1978) and John Gardner (1990). His most recent publications are editions of two novels by Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Marchand, F. M. C. and The Quarry (Princeton University Press, 1999).

Paul Allen Miller is Associate Professor of Classics and Director of Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness (Routledge, 1994), co-editor with Charles Platter of Bakhtin and Ancient Studies (Arethusa, 1993), with Professor Platter and David H. J. Larmour of Rethinking Sexuality (Princeton, 1998), and with Professor Larmour and Peter I. Barta of Russian Literature and the Classics (Harwood, 1996). He is the author of numerous articles on classical poetry and literary theory, and one of the editors of the journal Intertexts.

Christian Moraru is an Assistant Professor of English at University of North Carolina, Greensboro, where he teaches primarily modern and postmodern American literature and critical theory. He also is an Associate Editor of Symploke, a journal of theory and comparative studies. A chapter of his 1990 book on mimetic ideologies in twentieth-century theory, The Archeology of Mimesis, has recently been reprinted in the SUNY Press anthology The Play of the Self. Such journals as Critique, Nabokov Studies, The Comparatist, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Studies in the Novel, Modern Fiction Studies, The Journal of Narrative Technique, and Studies in the Humanities have published his essays. He has a forthcoming book. Rewriting: Postmodern Narrative and Cultural Critique in the Age of Cloning.

Sharon Diane Nell is Associate Professor of French and Director of the Program in Comparative Literature at Texas Tech University, USA. Her publications include articles in Computers in the Humanities and L'Esprit Createur, as well as French Feminism Across the Disciplines (a special issue of Intertexts edited with Hafid Gafaiti and Paul Allen Miller, 1998), and The French Novel from Lafayette to Desvignes (edited with Bernadette Lintz and George Poe, 1995). She is a co-editor of Intertexts, a comparative literature journal published by Texas Tech University Press.

Nigel Nicholson is an Assistant Professor of Classics and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. His publications include “Pederastic Poets and Adult Patrons in Late Archaic Lyric”, Classical World, 93 (2000), “Bodies Without Names, Names Without Bodies: Propertius 1.21–22”, Classical Journal, 94 (1999), and “Pindar Ne. 4.57–58 and the Arts of Poets, Trainers and Wrestlers”, Arethusa, 34 (2001), forthcoming. He is at present completing a book on the representation of charioteers and trainers in archaic Greece.

Charles Platter is Associate Professor of Classic at the University of Georgia. He is co-editor of Rethinking Sexuality: Foucault and Classical Antiquity (Princeton, 1997). He has published numerous articles on Greek and Latin poetry, Greek comedy, and Bakhtin. These latter two are the subject of a book nearing completion entitled, Carnivals of Genre in Aristophanes.

David Shepherd is Professor of Russian and founder and Director of the Bakhtin Centre at the University of Sheffield, UK. His publications include Bakhtin and Cultural Theory (edited with Ken Hirschkop; 1989, revised edition 2001) and The Contexts of Bakhtin: Philosophy, Authorship, Aesthetics (edited 1998). He is the editor of Dialogism: An International Journal of Bakhtin Studies, and director of a Bakhtin Centre project that will lead to an electronic scholarly edition of the works of Bakhtin and the Bakhtin Circle.