Notes on the Contributors

Toby Altman is the author of Jewel Box (Essay Press, 2025), Discipline Park (Wendy’s Subway, 2023), and Arcadia, Indiana (Plays Inverse, 2017). He has held fellowships from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts, MacDowell, and the National Endowment for the Arts, where he was a 2021 Poetry Fellow. He currently teaches at Michigan State University, where he is Assistant Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) and Director of the RCAH Center for Poetry.

Derek Attridge is Emeritus Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UK. He is the author of books and articles on the history and forms of European poetry, literary theory, and Irish and South African literature. His publications include Moving Words: Forms of English Poetry (Oxford, 2013), The Craft of Poetry: Dialogues on Minimal Interpretation (with Henry Staten) (Routledge, 2015), and The Experience of Poetry: From Homer’s Listeners to Shakespeare’s Readers (Oxford, 2019).

Philip Ross Bullock is Professor of Russian Literature and Music at the University of Oxford, Fellow and Tutor in Russian at Wadham College, and a former director of The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. He is the author of Pyotr Tchaikovksy (London, 2016) and editor of Rachmaninoff and his World (Chicago, 2022). His research has been supported by awards from the British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and Institute for Advanced Study, Paris.

Vahni Anthony Ezekiel Capildeo, Trinidadian Scottish poet and writer of non-fiction, is Writer in Residence at the University of York. Capildeo’s interests include traditional masquerade, silence, plurilingualism, and the poetics of place. Their numerous books and pamphlets include No Traveller Returns (2003), Undraining Sea (2009), Dark and Unaccustomed Words (2012), Utter (2013), Measures of Expatriation (2016), which won the 2016 Forward Prize, Venus as a Bear (2018), Like a Tree, Walking (2021), which was a Poetry Book Society choice, and Polkadot Wounds (2024), which took shape thanks to the Charles Causley Trust. Capildeo is a contributing editor at PN Review and a contributing adviser for Blackbox Manifold.

Hal Coase is a PhD candidate in co-tutela La Sapienza University of Rome and University of Silesia, with a research project on the poetry of Barbara Guest and the afterlives of modernism in New York. His criticism has been published in PN Review, and academic work in Text Matters, RIAS, Revue française d’études américaines, and Status Quaestionis. His poetry has appeared in The White Review, and anthologized by Carcanet Press (2020) and Prototype Press (2023). He has written for the theatre in the UK, and his plays, published by Oberon Press, have been performed in the USA and Canada.

Jonathan Culler is Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Cornell University. He is the author of Flaubert: The Uses of Uncertainty (1974) and numerous books on contemporary critical theory, French and English, including Structuralist Poetics (1975) and On Deconstruction (1983). His Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (augmented edition, 2011) has been translated into 26 languages. His latest book is Theory of the Lyric (2015).

Irene Fantappiè is Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) of Comparative Literature at the University of Cassino. After completing her PhD at the University of Bologna, she was Humboldt Fellow and researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and later directed a three-year DFG research project at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research interests include translation, intertextuality, and authorship in Italian and German-speaking literature from the Renaissance to the present day. She is the author of Franco Fortini e la poesia europea. Riscritture di autorialità (2021), La letteratura tedesca in Italia. Un’introduzione (1900–1920) (with A. Baldini et al., 2018), L’autore esposto. Scrittura e scritture in Karl Kraus (2016), and Karl Kraus e Shakespeare. Recitare, citare, tradurre (2012).

Francesco Giusti is Career Development Fellow and Tutor in Italian at Christ Church, University of Oxford. Previously he held fellowships at the University of York, the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, and the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry. He has published two books devoted respectively to the ethics of mourning and to creative desire in lyric poetry: Canzonieri in morte. Per un’etica poetica del lutto (2015) and Il desiderio della lirica. Poesia, creazione, conoscenza (2016). He co-edited, with Christine Ott and Damiano Frasca, the volume Poesia e nuovi media (2018); with Benjamin Lewis Robinson, The Work of World Literature (2021); and with Adele Bardazzi and Emanuela Tandello, A Gaping Wound: Mourning in Italian Poetry (2022).

Sabine I. Gölz is known for her bold, innovative analyses in modern European literature, pioneering a fresh type of theoretical inquiry. Examining the interplay between texts and a self-reflexively present reader, she explores how writing automates readerly perception – and how we can resist. Author of The Split Scene of Reading: Nietzsche/Derrida/Kafka/Bachmann (1998) and impactful essays such as ‘Reading in the Twilight’, ‘Günderrode Mines Novalis’, and ‘Apostrophe’s Double’, Sabine I. Gölz is Associate Professor Emerita of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa, where she taught literature, theory, translation, and the history of writing. She has produced and edited six documentary films on musical topics.

Wendy Lotterman is a postdoctoral researcher in literature at the University of Oslo, an associate editor of Parapraxis, a magazine of psychoanalysis and politics, and the author of A Reaction to Someone Coming In (Futurepoem 2023).

Peter D. McDonald is Professor of English and Related Literature and Fellow of St Hugh’s College, Oxford. He is the author of, among others, Artefacts of Writing: Ideas of the State and Communities of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing (Oxford, 2017, see also artefactsofwriting.com), The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and its Cultural Consequences (Oxford, 2009); and co-author of PEN: An Illustrated History (Interlink/Thames & Hudson, 2021).

Laura Scuriatti is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Bard College Berlin. Her research focuses on modernist literature, with special interest in life-writing, aesthetics and gender. She is the author of Mina Loy’s Critical Modernism (2019), the editor of Groups, Coteries, Circles and Guilds: Modernist Aesthetics and the Utopian Lure of Community (2019) and the co-editor of Literary Capitals in the Long Nineteenth Century: Spaces Beyond the Centres (2022) and of The Exhibit in the Text: the Museological Practices of Literature (2008). She has also published on H.G. Wells, Mario Praz, and Carl Van Vechten.