Notes on contributors

1 John Attridge is currently completing his doctoral thesis at the University of Sydney. His work is on generosity and sincerity in Ford Madox Ford’s fiction, and secrecy in Joseph Conrad’s. He has presented papers at ‘Apostasy 2002’ at the University of Sydney, on Joseph Conrad and Maurice Blanchot, and at the Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, on Murray Bail. He has published a review of Maurice Blanchot’s The Space of Literature in Traffic, a postgraduate journal.

2 Alain Blayac is Professor of British literature at the Université Paul-Valéry—Montpellier III. He is the author of Evelyn Waugh, romancier satirique (1903-1945) (Presses du Septentrion, 1989), and he edited Evelyn Waugh: New Directions (Macmillan, 1992) and Richard Aldington (Publications de l’université Paul-Valéry, 1993). He has published many articles and reviews on Joyce, Lawrence, Green, Greene, etc. He is the honorary president of the Société d’études anglaises contemporaines. He is the editor for Europe of the Evelyn Waugh Newsletter. He worked as a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Colorado at Boulder and Boston University, and was Visiting Fellow at Oxford University. He is the head of the International Office at the Université Montpellier III.

3 Françoise Bort teaches at the Université Marne La Vallée. In 1999 she defended a Ph.D. dissertation on Rosamond Lehmann’s conception of writing and authorship and is now doing research work on British literature of the inter-war period. She has published articles on Rosamond Lehmann and on Virginia Woolf.

4 Anne-Marie Carassou is graduate from the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), holder of both the secondary school teaching qualification (CAPES) and agrégation, obtained a Ph.D. in British studies. She is a Senior Lecturer at the French West Indies University (Martinique) and a member of CELLCAA (Centre d’étude des langues, des littératures et des civilisations des Amériques anglophones).

5 Sophie Cartier is a temporary lecturer at the Université de Valenciennes. She has defended her thesis (Paris VII) on the representation of London in Peter Ackroyd’s work, more precisely about the links between topography, cartography, architecture, archaeology and history writing. She is about to publish two articles entitled ‘La représentation de Londres chez Peter Ackroyd: de la mémoire textuelle à la musique des origines’ and ‘Peter Ackroyd’s Representation of London: Performing the Origins of the English Tradition.’

6 Jennifer Cook is Assistant Director of University Writing at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. She received a Ph.D. in English and American literature from Brandeis University in 2004. Her scholarly interests include both British and American modernism, as well as nineteenth-century American fiction. She recently completed research grants at the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Yale University and the Mark Twain Papers and Project at the University of California at Berkeley. Her current project examines the ethics of language in the American realist period.

7 Bénédicte Coste teaches English at the Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3 and is writing a book on the question of belief in Pater’s writings. She has devoted her doctoral thesis and articles to E. Brontë, and has published essays on the visual arts and psychoanalysis.

8 Claire Davison-Pégon is a Senior lecturer in English Studies at the Université d’Aix-en-Provence, specialized in modern and contemporary fiction, particularly the literary interfaces between modernism and postmodernism, and between the languages of fiction and music. Her monograph, L’art de la fugue chez Kazuo Ishiguro has just been published by the Presses Universitaires du Mirail.

9 Dominique Delmaire is a Senior lecturer at the Université Lumière— Lyon 2. His field is that of contemporary Scottish literature, more specifically poetry. In 1999, he published L’Ascèse de l’écriture dans la poésie de George Mackay Brown (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion). He is the author of a dozen articles on George Mackay Brown and other poets of his generation (like Norman MacCaig) and on R. L. Stevenson.

10Jean-Michel Ganteau is Professsor of modern English literature at the Université Paul-Valéry—Montpellier III. He is the author of a monograph on David Lodge’s melodramatic imagination: David Lodge: le choix de l’éloquence (Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2001) and the editor of several collections of essays on 19th—and 20th— century British fiction. He has also published some thirty articles on contemporary British fiction (Catholic literature, the London novel, romance, melodrama, kitsch, the baroque and the sublime). He is very much interested in the relations between the theory of genres and the theory of affect. He is also the editor of Études britanniques contemporaines.

11 Sara Greaves is a lecturer at the Université de Provence Aix-Marseille 1. She has written articles on contemporary poetry and the translation into English of Georges Perec’s lipogrammatic novel La disparition, and is the author of a doctoral thesis on Basil Bunting.

12 Isabelle Hesling is a Senior Lecturer at Bordeaux II University. She obtained a Ph.D. in English and Language Sciences and is a French National Academy of Medicine prize-winner (Henri Baruk’s prize). She is a member of LIMF (Laboratoire d’imagerie moléculaire et fonctionnelle, ERT-CNRS) in Bordeaux.

13 Michèle Hita teaches at the Université Paul-Valéry—Montpellier III. She wrote her Ph.D. dissertation on Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and has since published on such contemporary writers as John Fowles, William Golding, Graham Greene, Bruce Chatwin or Hanif Kureishi. She is currently working on travel writings.

14 Leigh Jameson received a Master’s degree in English Literature at George Mason University in Virginia. After receiving her B.A. in French Literature at James Madison University, she spent nearly ten years as a professional stage performer before returning to academia. Her primary focus is dramatic literature. Her current thesis work involves examining cultural myth and archetype in E. L. Doctorow’s novel, Ragtime, and its performed adaptations. She has presented papers on Gore Vidal’s dramatic works and, most recently, on the filmed adaptation of Ragtime for the American Lit/ Film Association.

15 Isabelle Keller is a Senior lecturer at the Université Toulouse 2—le Mirail where she teaches literature, translation and linguistics. She is the author of a Ph.D. Thesis entitled ‘L’Anamorphose dans l’œuvre romanesque de Lawrence Durrell’ that she defended in December 2002. She was awarded the International Lawrence Durrell Prize for New Scholarship in 2000.

16 Georges Letissier is a Senior lecturer in the English Department at the Université de Nantes (France), has published articles, both in French and in English, on P. Ackroyd, A.S. Byatt, A. Gray, M. Moor-cock, G. Swift and on C. Dickens and G. Eliot. His main field of research is post-Victorianism in contemporary fiction-writing. He is currently working on a book on the post-Victorian novel.

17 Jean Radford formerly of Goldsmiths College, University of London, is a freelance writer/researcher. She is editor of The Progress of Romance (Harvester Press), author of books on Norman Mailer (Macmillan) and Dorothy Richardson (Routledge) and numerous articles on women and Modernism. Her most recent publication is ‘A Transatlantic Affair: Amy Lowell and Bryher’ in Amy Lowell, American Modern, eds. Adrienne Munich & Melissa Bradshaw, Rutgers University Press, 2004.

18 Graham Ranger is a Senior lecturer at the Université d’Avignon. Most of his research and publications focusses on problems of linguistic formalisation in an enunciative framework. More recently he has begun exploring links between modes of autoreferentiality in literary production and the essentially autoreferential nature of language itself. His teaching currently bears on the novels of Muriel Spark, several plays by Shakespeare, Enunciative and Historical Linguistics and Translation.

19 Christine Reynier is Professor of contemporary British Literature at the University Paul-Valéry—Montpellier III. She has edited books on Virginia Woolf, published a critical analysis of The Waves in collaboration and written essays on Virginia Woolf ’s short stories, especially on her theory and ethics of the short story. She has also published essays on other Modernist writers like Katherine Mansfield or Leonard Woolf and on contemporary writers like McEwan. She has just completed a book on Jeanette Winterson: Le Miracle ordinaire (Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2004).

20 Gulshan Taneja is an Associate Professor at the University of Delhi. He has edited books on Rushdie and Yeats and a festschrift, Literature East and West. He edits In-between: Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism, a bi-annual journal of English literary criticism and has published, since 1992, 23 issues showcasing some of the finest scholarship in Europe and North America.

21 Pascale Tollance is a Senior lecturer at the Université Charles de Gaulle—Lille 3, wrote a thesis and several articles on Malcolm Lowry. She also works on the contemporary British novel and has published articles on Graham Swift and Julian Barnes.

22 Fabio Vericat (MA Hons. University of Edinburgh, Ph.D. University of Glasgow) has taught English literature at the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde and is now based at St. Louis University (Madrid Campus). He continues to research in the areas of T. S. Eliot’s critical writings, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s fiction, literature and philosophy, and medieval allegory. He has published work on Eliot, George Orwell, a textbook on English literature and thought, as well as reviews on contemporary American and English fiction.

23 Luc Verrier is a temporary lecturer at the Université Paul-Valéry— Montpellier III. He is working on his Doctorate thesis entitled ‘Les figures de la colère dans l’œuvre de Martin Amis.’ He has published two articles on Martin Amis’s novels (Etudes britanniques contemporaines) and short fiction (Miscelánea).

24 Pierre Vitoux is Professor of English Literature (now emeritus) at the Université Paul-Valéry—Montpellier III. He has published books and articles on literary theory, Romanticism (Landor, Keats, Shelley, Byron), Victorian literature and ideas (Carlyle, J. S. Mill), Modern and Contemporary fiction (H. James, Conrad, Joyce, Coover, Boyd, Norfolk). His recent books are: A Study of Women in Love (2001) and Aldous Huxley Romancier et critique de la modernité (2002).

25 Eileen Williams-Wanquet is a lecturer in English literature at the University of La Réunion. She has published a book on the novels of Anita Brookner (Art and Life in the Novels of Anita Brookner [Peter Lang, 2004] and has written articles on Marina Warner, Penelope Lively, Michèle Roberts and Jeannette Winterson.

26 Jakob Winnberg received his Ph.D. in English literature from Gothenburg University in 2001. He is currently a postdoctoral Research Fellow at Gothenburg University, working on a study of emotion in postmodernist fiction. He is the author of An Aesthetics of Vulnerability: The Sentimentum and the Novels of Graham Swift (Gothenburg, 2003).