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List of Contributors Susan Petrilli - 9789004490093 Downloaded from Brill.com09/30/2021 09:32:40AM via free access Myrdene Anderson is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at Purdue University, USA. She is an anthropologist, linguist, and semiotician. She is involved with many research projects foreseeing both fieldwork and archival investigations. In relation to her research she has published numerous articles and coedited a series of volumes including: Refiguring Debris-Becoming Unbecoming, Unbecoming Becoming, a special issue of The American Journal of Semiotics 11, 1-2, 1994, coedited with Walter Randolph Adams; and On Semiotic Modeling, coedited with Floyd Merrell, 1991. Anderson is past President of the Central States Anthropological Society and also of the Semiotic Society of America. Paolo Bartoloni lectures in Italian and comparative literature at The University of Sydney, Australia. He is editor of Re-Claiming Diversity: Essays on Comparative Literature, 1996, and Intellectuals and Publics: Essays on Cultural Theory and Practice, 1997. He has translated into Italian the novel by Australian author Robert Dessaix, Night Letters (Lettere di notte), 1998. Susan Bassnett is Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Warwick and Professor in the Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies, which she founded in the 1980s. Her numerous publications include her important textbook Translation Studies, 1980 and Comparative Literature, 1993, both of which have known reeditions and have been translated in many languages across the world. Recent books include Studying British Culture, 1997; (with André Lefevere), Constructing Cultures, 1998; (with Harish Trivedi), Postcolonial Translation, 1999. Her latest books include (edited with Ulrich Broich), Britain at the Turn of the Century, 2001; and a collection of poems and translations, Exchanging Lives (2002). She is Chair of the Centre for Asian and African Literatures Arts and Humanities Research Board. Annie Brisset is Professor at the School of Translation and Interpretation, University of Ottawa, Canada. She is consultant at UNESCO for the development of multilingual communication in specialized environments in countries from Central and East Europe. Her research is centred on social representations and common sense in translation. Her major publications include the volume Sociocritique de la traduction. Théâtre et altérité au Québec, 1990, awarded the Ann-Saddlemyer Prize, and published in English as A Sociocritique of Translation. Theatre and Alterity in Quebec, 1996. Susan Petrilli - 9789004490093 Downloaded from Brill.com09/30/2021 09:32:40AM via free access List of Contributors David Buchbinder is Associate Professor in the School of Communication & Cultural Studies at Curtin University of Technology, in Perth, Western Australia. He has published widely in the fields of literary and cultural studies. His area of research is the cultural representations of men, masculinities and male sexualities, across a variety of genres and media. His publications include: Contemporary Literary Theory and the Reading of Poetry, 1991; Masculinities and Identities, 1994; Performance Anxieties. Reproducing Masculinity, 1998. Peter Cariani is Assistant Professor in the Department of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, USA. His areas of investigation include theoretical biology, with a subsequent focus on neural time codes for pitch and timbre in the auditory system. Currently he is investigating the representation of sound in the auditory cortex, the implications of temporal codes for music perception, and how neural timing nets might process information. He has published numerous articles in journals and collective volumes. Vincent Colapietro, Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, USA, is a specialist in Charles S. Peirce and, more generally, pragmatism. His other major areas of research include semiotics, psychoanalysis, political philosophy, and intellectual history. His major publications include, in addition to numerous essays, the volumes Peirce’s Approach to the Self: A Semiotic Perspective on Human Subjectivity, 1989; and A Glossary of Semiotics (1993). Anne Cranny-Francis is Associate Professor in English and Cultural Studies in the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her publications include: Feminist Fiction: Feminist Uses of Generic Fiction, 1990; Engendered Fiction: Analysing gender in the production and reception of text, 1992; Popular Culture, 1994; The Body in the Text, 1995. Itamar Even-Zohar is Professor of Culture Research at Tel Aviv University. He was also professor of Translation Theory and History and Theory of Literature at the same University. He has translated into Hebrew various works from world literature, especially from the Scandinavian languages. His studies in translation, carried out within the framework of the theory of heterogeneous systems (polysystem theory) mostly attempt to analyze translation as an integral part of a larger transfer, on the one hand, and as constrained by domestic factors, on the other. Barbara Folkart is a Professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her poetry has appeared in numerous reviews in North America and the U.K. She has also published extensively in the fields of medieval philology (articles and critical editions) and of translation theory. She is author of the volume, Le conflit des énonciations. Traductions et discours rapporté, 1991. Barbara Godard is Associate Professor of English, French, Social and Political Thought and Women’s Studies at York University, Toronto, Canada. She has published 654 Susan Petrilli - 9789004490093 Downloaded from Brill.com09/30/2021 09:32:40AM via free access List of Contributors widely on Canadian and Quebec writers and on feminist and literary theory. As a translator, among other things she has introduced Quebec writers Louky Bersianik, Yolande Villemaire and Antonine Maillet to an English audience. She is the recipient of the Gabrielle Roy Prize of the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures, 1988; and the Award of Merit of the Association of Canadian Studies (1995). She is a founding coeditor of the feminist literary theory periodical, Tessera, and had edited, among other things, the volume Gynocritics/Gynocritiques: Feminist Approaches to the Writing of Canadian and Quebec Women, 1987. In addition to numerous essays on translation, her recent publications include: Collaboration in the Feminine: Writings on Women and Culture from Tessera, 1994; and Intersexions: Issues of Race and Gender in Canadian Women’s Writing, 1996. Gregor Goethals is Professor of Art History at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, USA where she became Department Head and later Dean of Graduate Studies. Her books include: The TV Ritual: Worship at the Video Altar and The Electronic Golden Calf: Images and the Making of Meaning. She has also authored several articles in collective volumes. Currently she also serves as art consultant for ABS’s New Media Translation Program at the Resesarch Center for Scripture and the Media. Dinda L. Gorlée is Visiting Professor in Semiotics and Translation Studies at the University of Helsinki, Department of Translation Studies, Finland. She has widely published in Peirce studies, theory of intralingual, interlingual, and intersemiotic translation, text semiotics, legal semiotics. In addition to numerous essays published in journals and collective volumes, she has authored the volume Semiotics and the Problem of Translation: With Special Reference to the Semiotics of Charles S. Peirce, 1994. Robert Hodgson is a Seminary and University Professor of New Testament language and literature. He has published widely in the field of New Testament studies and early Christian literature. He collaborates with the American Bible Society working on various projects including the Contemporary English Version of the Old Testament, the Multimedia Bible Translation Project, and Scripture and Media. His research interests focus on new media translation theory, particularly on the connection between semiotics and translation. Among his many published works, he has edited (with Paul Soukup) the volumes From One Medium to Another, 1997; and Fidelity and Translation, 1999. Jesper Hoffmeyer is Associate Professor at the Institute of Biological Chemistry, University of Copenhagen in Denmark. In 1988 he founded the Biosemiotics Group at the Institute of Molecular Biology at the same University. His recent research interests range from the history of science and technology to theoretical biology. Currently his focus is on the nature-culture relation in its historical development, semiotics of nature and bioanthropology. He has published numerous articles in his field and authored the volume Signs of Meaning in the Universe, 1996. Kalevi Kull is Associate Professor in Semiotics at the University of Tartu, Estonia. 655 Susan Petrilli - 9789004490093 Downloaded from Brill.com09/30/2021 09:32:40AM via free access List of Contributors He researches in the areas of biosemiotics, theoretical biology, and ecology and has contributed to the renewal of studies on Jakob von Uexküll and the development of his positions. In addition to publishing the results of his research in numerous articles, Kull is editor of the important volume Biosemiotica. Semiotica Special Issue, 2001. Sara Laviosa was Head of the Italian Section of the School of Languages, at the University of Salford, UK,