Contributors: Madeleine Brainerd, Joe Conway, Fraser Easton,
Christopher GoGwilt, Shari Goldberg, Melanie D. Holm, Sarah Kay,
Kaori T. Kitao, Holt V. Meyer, Isabel A. Moore, Fawzia Mustafa,
Gavin Sourgen. Mocking Bird Technologies brings together a range of
perspectives to offer an extended meditation on bird mimicry in
literature: the way birds mimic humans, the way humans mimic birds,
and the way mimicry of any kind involves technologies that extend
across as well as beyond languages and species. The essays examine
the historical, poetic, and semiotic problem of mimesis exemplified
both by the imitative behavior of parrots, starlings, and other
mocking birds, and by the poetic trope of such birds in a range of
literary and philological traditions. Drawing from a cross-section
of traditional periods and fields in literary studies (18th-century
studies, romantic studies, early American studies, 20th-century
studies, and postcolonial studies), the collection offers new
models for combining comparative and global studies of literature
and culture. Editors Christopher GoGwilt is Professor of English
and Comparative Literature at Fordham University. He is the author
of The Passage of Literature: Genealogies of Modernism in Conrad,
Rhys, and Pramoedya (Oxford, 2011), The Fiction of Geopolitics:
Afterimages of Culture from Wilkie Collins to Alfred Hitchcock
(Stanford, 2000), and The Invention of the West: Joseph Conrad and
the Double-Mapping of Europe and Empire (Stanford, 1995). Melanie
D. Holm is Assistant Professor of the English Department and
Graduate Program of Literature and Criticism at Indiana University
of Pennsylvania. She also teaches in the university's Women's and
Gender Studies program. Her scholarly focus is on
eighteenth-century literature and skepticism. Contributors
Madeleine Brainerd taught at Washington University in St. Louis and
at Excelsior College. Since 2004 she has taught therapeutic yoga
and medical qi gong in New York City, at the Integral Yoga
Institute, Kenshikai Dojo, Gouverneur Hospital, and other venues.
She studies histories of yoga's intersections with ecological
in/justice, animality, and affect theory. Joe Conway is an
Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of
Alabama in Huntsville. His articles have appeared or are scheduled
to appear in the journals Women's Studies, Early American
Literature, and Nineteenth-Century Contexts. He is currently at
work on a monograph about the social life of antebellum money that
charts how discourses of noneconomic phenomena such as medicine,
race, nationalism, and aesthetics informed nineteenth-century
debates about what constitutes good money. Fraser Easton is
Associate Professor of English, University of Waterloo, Canada. A
specialist in eighteenth-century literature, he has published on
Jane Austen, Daniel Defoe, Maria Edgeworth, and Christopher Smart,
as well as on newspaper records and historical accounts of passing
women in the eighteenth century. Shari Goldberg is Assistant
Professor of English at Franklin & Marshall College in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Quiet Testimony: A
Theory of Witnessing from Nineteenth-Century American Literature
(Fordham, 2013). She has also published essays on silence,
politics, and personhood in American literature. Her current
research focuses on late-nineteenth-century models of mind and
person in narrative and psychological writing. Sarah Kay teaches
French and Medieval Studies at New York University. She has written
widely on medieval literature across languages, genres, and
periods; her work combines the study of medieval texts, especially
troubadour songs, with philosophical and theoretical inquiry. Her
two most recent books are Parrots and Nightingales: Troubadour
Quotations and the Development of European Poetry (2013) and Animal
Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries
(2017). Kaori Kitao (William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Art History,
Emerita, Swarthmore College) taught art history at Swarthmore
College from 1966 to 2001. She was born in Tokyo and studied
architecture at UC Berkeley and art history at Harvard. Her main
specialization is Italian renaissance and baroque art; she has also
taught courses in cinema history, material culture, urban studies,
and Japanese architecture. Holt V. Meyer is Professor of Slavic
Studies at Erfurt University. He is the author of Romantische
Orientierung (1995) and numerous articles and has co-edited the
collections Juden und Judentum in Literatur und Film des slavischen
Sprachraumes. Die geniale Epoche (1999), Inventing Slavia (2005),
Schiller: Gedenken-Vergessen-Lesen (2010), and Gagarin als
Archivkoerper und Erinnerungsfigur (2014). He is co-editor of the
new book series Spatio-Temporality. Practices-Concepts- Media (De
Gruyter). He is currently working on a book about the official
Stalinist Pushkin celebrations of 1949. Isabel (Annie) Moore
completed her Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of
California-Irvine. From 2011 to 2013, she held a postdoctoral
fellowship in English at the University of Victoria. She has
published on Contemporary Irish and Canadian poetry, and her book
project is titled The Ends of Lyric Life: A Theory of Biopoetics.
Fawzia Mustafa is Professor of English and African and African
American Studies at Fordham University. She also teaches in the
university's Comparative Literature and Women's, Gender and
Sexuality Studies Programs. The author of V. S. Naipaul (1995), she
has published numerous articles on postcolonial literature and
development. Gavin Sourgen is Visiting Assistant Professor of
English at the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic
University. He completed his D.Phil. at Balliol College (Oxford) in
2013, concentrating on the transitional poetics of Lord Byron's
verse, and has published on Byron, Coleridge, and romantic
aesthetics in general.
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