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Ali H. Abureesh is Assistant Professor of the English Department of Umm Al-Qura University - Makkah - Saudi Arabia. He is currently Chair of Department of English. He is an E-learning expert and trained Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE). He is the administrator and owner of two E-Learning websites: Makkah E-Learning and Abureesh Academic Network. His next projects include A Multimedia English Poetry Book for Arab Students, "The Sun Also Rises For Those Who Can See: A Jungian Analysis" and "Teaching Literature in Cyberspace".

Katherine O. Acheson is Assistant Professor in the English department at the University of Waterloo in Canada, where she teaches Renaissance literature. Her publications include The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619 (Garland, 1995), and essays on Clifford, Renaissance closet drama (EMLS) and Milton. She has completed an article on synecdoche in Hamlet and is working on one on ekphrasis in the same play. Her next projects include a multimedia Paradise Lost.

Richard Armstrongis Associate Professor of Classical Studies and Fellow in the Honors College, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston. He has recently published A Compulsion for Antiquity: Freud and the Ancient World (Cornell UP, 2005; paperback 2006).

Katherine E. Agar

Shuli Barzilai teaches in the English department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is associate dean of the Faculty of Humanities. She is the author of Lacan and the Matter of Origins, co-editor (with Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan and Leona Toker) of Rereading Texts/ Rethinking Critical Presuppositions, and has published essays on literary theory and psychoanalysis in American Imago, Diacritics, Literature and Theology, PMLA, Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, The Psychoanalytic Review, Signs, and other journals. 

William L. ("Bill") Benzon's career runs from cognitive science, through art, music, and the web. He has published Beethoven's Anvil: Music in Mind and Culture in 2001 and is on the scientific advisory board for the Institute of Music and Neurologic Function in New York City. Previously he was a Senior Scientist with MetaLogics, Inc., where he worked on knowledge representation and information design for web-based health services. Bill has taught in the Department of Language, Literature, and Communication at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is internationally recognized for his numerous scholarly articles, reviews, and technical reports on African-American music, literary analysis and theory, cultural evolution, cognition and brain theory, visual thinking, and technical communication. In conjunction with Richard Friedhoff he has written a book on computer graphics and image-processing entitled Visualization: The Second Computer Revolution.
Mind-Culture Coevolution: http://asweknowit.ca/evcult/
The Valve (cultural blog): http://tinyurl.com/ormqg

Jeffrey Berman is Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University at Albany, SUNY. He has published nine books, including, most recently, Dying to Teach: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning (SUNY Press) and Cutting and the Pedagogy of Self-Disclosure (University of Massachusetts Press).

Susan Hathaway Boydston is an English Ph.D. student at University of Cincinnati in Ohio. She has taught several undergraduate English courses at U.C. and was Acting Director of the A&S Writing Center. At present she is working on her dissertation which focuses on a psychoanalytic reading of Beowulf. p

Sagit Blumrosen-Sela is a member of the Dept. of General and Comparative Literature at Hebrew University.

Donald L. Carveth is Associate Professor of Sociology and Social & Political Thought at York University, Glendon College, in Toronto. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst in the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis (IPA) and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyse, Editor of the ejournal Kleinian Studies, and a member of the Editorial Boards of Psychoanalysis & Contemporary Thought, Free Associations, and PsyArt. Many of his publications are available on his website: http://www.yorku.ca/dcarveth.

Marco Casonato is professor of Dynamic Psychology at University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, a member of the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group and Director of the Journals Psicoterapia and Psicopatologia Cognitiva. He published over 150 articles on Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science.

Cora L. Díaz de Chumaceiro

William Donoghue is an Associate Professor at Emerson College's Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing.

Pawel Dybel

Laura Emery received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and is the author of George Eliot's Creative Conflict: The Other Side of Silence (1974), an important psychoanalytic study. She currently teaches at San Diego State University and is working on a book about the process of recovery from dissociative identity disorder. She and Margaret Keenan are sisters.

Henrik Enckell is a Training and Supervising psychoanalyst from Helsinki, Finland. His doctoral dissertation "Metaphor and the Psychodynamic Functions of the Mind" was published in 2002.

Krin GabbardKrin Gabbard teaches cinema studies, comparative literature, and cultural studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. With Glen O. Gabbard, he is the author of Psychiatry and the Cinema, 2nd ed. (American Psychiatric Press, 1999). His most recent books are Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture (Faber and Faber, forthcoming in 2008) and Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture (Rutgers U Press, 2004).

Daniel B. Gallagher Daniel B. Gallagher is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Sacred Heart Major Seminary. His primary interests lie in medieval metaphysics and aesthetics. His more recent articles have appeared in Topics in General and Formal Ontology, the Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics, Hortulus, and Theandros. He is also a frequent contributor to the Philosophy and Popular Culture series, a regular reviewer for The Classical Bulletin and Reviews in Religion and Theology, and editor of the Values in Italian Philosophy series.

Andrew M. Gordon is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida.

David J. Gordon is Professor Emeritus of English at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate School.

Harvey Roy Greenberg, M.D. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, where he teaches adolescent psychiatry and medical humanities. His most recent book is Screen Memories: Hollywood Cinema on the Psychoanalytic Couch; New York: Columbia University Press, l993.

Steven Hamelman is Professor of English at Coastal Carolina University, where he teaches courses in American literature and literary theory. In addition to publishing articles on the early American novel in journals such as Studies in American Fiction and South Atlantic Review, his work on rock music has appeared in the journal Popular Music and Society and the collection The Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest (2006). His study But Is It Garbage? On Rock and Trash was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2004. Forthcoming work includes essays on the nineteenth-century sentimental novelist Maria Susanna Cummins and the Beatles.

Jacqueline Hamrit received a BA at the University of Montpellier in France and spent two years in the United States as a teaching assistant , one at Mount Holyoke College and the other at the University of California at Davis where she obtained a MA in French. Thanks to the Agrégation she secured in 1990, she was recruited at the University of Lille in France. Her doctoral thesis was entitled "Boundaries and Limits in Nabokov’s work." She has published articles on Nabokov and Derrida.

Kurt Harris is Assistant Professor of English at Southern Utah University, where he teaches Composition and British Literature courses. While his area of expertise is Victorian literature, he has published articles on Beowulf, W. M. Thackeray, and E. E. Cummings. Dr. Harris can be contacted via his Web page at http://www.suu.edu/faculty/harrisk/.

Geoffrey Hartman is the Sterling Professor of English and Comparative Literature (Emeritus) at Yale and Co-Founder and Project Director of the University's Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. He is the author of many books, including Scars of the spirit: The Struggle Against Inauthenticity.

Norman N. Holland is Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida. He has published over 150 articles and twelve books of literary criticism and literary and psychological theory, among them, The Dynamics of Literary Response, Poems in Persons, 5 Readers Reading, The I, and a detective story, Death in a Delphi Seminar. Currently he moderates the PSYART online discussion group with over 900 subscribers, and he edits the PSYART online journal. Holland's home page.

Christopher Holman is a member of the Department of Political Science at York University.

Brooke Hopkins is Professor of English at the University of Utah. His scholarly interests include British Romanticism, psychoanalysis and literature, and Shakespeare.

Robert Howard is an independent scholar and writer living in Newton, Massachusetts, and a former affiliate scholar of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. A version of this paper was first presented at the Psychoanalytic Practices Seminar, Humanities Center, Harvard University. The author would like to thank Dr. Humphrey Morris for his invitation to speak at the seminar.

Dianne Hunter Dianne M. Hunter is Professor of English at Trinity College, Hartford, CT, USA. She has published essays in the journals American Imago, The Psychoanalytic Review, Feminist Studies, Theatre Topics, Theater Journal, Partial Answers, TLS, and European Journal of Women's Studies. She edited Seduction and Theory (University of Illinois, 1989), and The Makings of Dr. Charcot's Hysteria Shows (Mellen, 1998).

Douglas H. Ingram is psychoanalytic psychiatrist in Manhattan, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York Medical College, and Editor of The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry.

Shersten Johnson is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of St. Thomas, where she teaches a variety of courses in music theory. Her interests include twentieth-century opera and art song, as well as cognitive linguistics and poetics and music semiotics. In addition to the United States, she has presented her research in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Her publications appear in Music Theory Spectrum, Music & Letters, Opera Today, and the Journal of Music and Meaning. Her doctoral research engages conceptual modeling of music and text relations in a hermeneutic critique of Benjamin Britten’s Death in Venice. Recently she was awarded the Westrup Prize for distinguished article of 2005 by the editors of Music & Letters. Dr. Johnson can be reached at srjohnson2@stthomas.edu.

Peggy Fitzhugh Johnston received a Doctor of Arts degree from the State University of New York at Albany and is an independent scholar. She is the author of a number of essays on George Eliot and of The Transformation of Rage: Mourning and Creativity in George Eliot's Fiction (1994), another important psychoanalytic study. She is currently working on Henry James.

Julie Kane is an Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Communication at Northwestern State University.

Margaret Keenan M.D., a graduate of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, is in the private practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in Minneapolis. She is a founding member of the Minnesota Psychoanalytic Institute and is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Minnesota. She and Laura Emery are sisters.

John Robert Keller

Garry Kennard is a painter, writer and lecturer. He has exhibited his paintings and drawings in London, Oxford, Cambridge and Winchester. A fascination with how the brain reacts to works of art has lead him to research, write and lecture on these topics. He has lectured at the Conway Hall, London, Clare Hall, Cambridge University, the BA Science conference at Exeter University and at the Dana Centre, Science Museum, London. In 2003 he instigated and is now director of 'Art and Mind' which produces festivals and other events in UK and hosts a large website at http://www.artandmind.org. Garry Kennard has an interest in mountaineering and has climbed in the Alps and Africa and has lead his own expeditions to the Himalayas. A selection of Garry Kennard's images and writing can be found at http://www.garrykennard.com

Mikko Keskinen, Ph.D, is Docent for Comparative Literature at the Universities of Jyvaskyla and Helsinki, Finland, and he is currently affiliated with the Academy of Finland. Dr. Keskinen is the author of Response, Resistance, Deconstruction: Reading and Writing in/of Three Novels by John Updike (1998), and his other work has been or will be published in American Studies in Scandinavia, Journal of International Women's Studies, and Critique.  Dr. Keskinen is now working on Audio Book: Readings in Sound, Voice, Speech, and Writing; the present article is part of the problematic to be dealt with in it.

Marvin Krims

Stephen Ledrew is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at York University, Toronto.

María Jesús López Sánchez-Vizcaíno is a member of the English Department of the University of Córdoba.

Stephen John Mack

Shirley A. Martin is a graduate student at the University of Chicago in the Department of Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science.

Ronnie Mather is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Sociology at Empire State College.

Burton Melnick is in his fourth decade of teaching at International School of Geneva, Switzerland. He does scholarly work in literature and psychology. A member of the Board of Editors of PsyArt, he recently co-edited an "electronic book," Metaphor and Psychoanalysis. for the 2001 volume of PsyArt, a subject on which he has contributed a number of articles to psychoanalytic journals. A short story, "Nor All Your Impiety Nor Wit," will be his first published fiction when it appears in The Reading Room/4, in the summer of 2002 (available from amazon.com).

Arnold H. Modell practices psychoanalysis in the Boston area and is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Training Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. He has published several books on psychoanlysis and related subjects and his forthcoming book is Imagination and the Meaningful Brain (MIT Press) that examines the role of metaphor in the mind/brain 's construction of meaning.

Gavin Miller is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh, where he working upon a two-year investigation of Scottish psychoanalytic psychiatry. He is the author of two monographs, R.D. Laing (Edinburgh, 2004) and Alasdair Gray: the Fiction of Communion (Rodopi, 2005), and numerous articles in journals such as Janus Head, Scottish Affairs, and Scottish Studies Review.

Holly Paradis is a doctoral candidate in the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh.

Bernard J. Paris emeritus professor of English at the University of Florida, where he taught the application of psychology to literature. He has written psychoanalytic criticism in many essays and books, focusing on applications of Karen Horney's thinking. He has also written an intellectual biography, Karen Homey: A Psychoanalyst's Search for Self-Understanding (1994). In his recent work, as in this essay, he has been comparing his present views of Eliot with the view he took in Experiments in Life: George Eliot's Quest for Values (1965). He has been focusing on psychological changes in himself and his subsequently developed psychoanalytic approach to literature.

Jay Peters is a member of the Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College.

Daniel Rancour-Laferriere is Emeritus Professor of Russian at the University of California, Davis. He has published many books and articles about Russia, Russian literature, Russian culture, psychoanalysis, semiotics, poetics, human sexuality, evolutionary psychology, religion, and other topics. Currently he is working on a psychoanalytic study of the Christian sign of the cross. For a detailed profile, see the web site: http://www.Rancour-Laferriere.com

Ratna Roshida Abd Razak, is a member of the School of Humanities at the Universiti Sains Malaysia.

Carl T. Rotenberg, M.D., is assistant clinical professor of psychiatry in the Yale School of Medicine and adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry in the Psychoanalytic Institute of the New York Medical College, where he is a supervising and training analyst. He is in the private practice of adult and adolescent general psychiatry and psychoanalysis in Wilton, Connecticut. He has written several articles on creativity and two other essays on George Eliot in 1998 and 1999.

Ian F. Roberts is an Associate Professor of English at Missouri Western State University.

Esther Sánchez-Pardo is an Associate Professor of English at Complutense University in Madrid (Spain). She works on Modernism and is interested in the intersection of literature, psychoanalysis and the visual arts. She has published Cultures of the Death Drive. Melanie Klein and Modernist Melancholia (2003). She is coauthor of Ophelia's Legacy. Schizotexts in Twentieth Century Women's Literature (2000) and has coedited Women, Identities and Poetry (1999) and Feeling the Worlds (2001). Her critical bilingual anthology of Mina Loy's poetry is forthcoming from Huerga y Fierro.

Bruce Sarbit

Barbara Schapiro

Roxanne Y. Schwab received her Ph.D. in English from Saint Louis University in 2005. An Adjunct Instructor at S.L.U., she has written extensively on drama and film and has served as Director of the University’s Graduate Writing Center and Assistant Director of the A&S Writing Program. At present she is working on a book regarding the lexical challenges inherent in staging the dramas of Gertrude Stein.

Glorianne E. Scott is an Independent Scholar living in Westminster, Colorado.

Robert Silhol is professor emeritus at the University of Paris VII-Denis Diderot. He animates and directs the"Centre d'Anthropologie Littéraire" of the University Paris VII and is the editor of the journal Gradiva, Psychanayse et Littérature, Revue Européenne, sponsored by Frederico Pereira's Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada in Lisbon and located in Paris VII, Institut Charles V. He has written many articles on English and American literature, and on Psychoanalysis, both theory and practice. He is the author of Le Texte du Désir, Les Tyrans Tragiques and has published (many years ago!) a novel Autobiographie d'une étoile égoïste. He is a keen reader of Freud and Lacan and carries on his enquiry into their work.

Ignês Sodré was a clinical psychologist in Brazil before moving to London in 1969 to study at the Institute of Psychoanalysis of the British Psychoanalytical Society, where she is currently a training and supervising analyst. She has a private practice and teaches in London and abroad. She has written on clinical psychoanalysis and on literature and has co-authored Imagining Characters: Six Conversations About Women Writers with A. S. Byatt (1995). Here, she argues in her essay that George Eliot worked through issues that were unresolved in The Mill on the Floss more successfully eleven years later in Dorothea's story in Middlemarch.

Bent Soerensen Bent Sørensen has a PhD in American Literature and Culture from Aalborg University, where he is Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of the English programme. He teaches 20th and 21st century American literature, cultural studies and theory in the interdisciplinary Department of Languages, Culture and Aesthetics.

Nina Pelikan Strausis Professor of Literature and Co-Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at Purchase College. Her work includes Dostoevsky and the Woman Question (St. Martins, 1994) and articles on Tolstoy, Mann, Conrad, Kafka, Kundera, Freudian theory, feminist theory, and Derrida.

Dawn Skorczewski is Director of Composition at Emerson College and an Affiliate Scholar at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. Her previous publications include "`Everybody has their own ideas?': Responding to Cliché in Student Writing, " College Composition and Communication, 2000, and "What Prison Is This?: Literary Critics Cover Incest in Anne Sexton's 'Briar Rose,'" Signs: Journal of Women in Culture, and Society 21:2 (Winter 1996). Her book in progress, "Teaching Writing One Moment at a Time," addresses intersections between infant research, relational theories of psychoanalysis, and the teaching of writing.

Leslie Trueman is a graduate student and lecturer at Rutgers > University, where she has taught World Myth. You can reach her at lesliet@eden.rutgers.edu.

Reuven Tsur is Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Literature at Tel Aviv University, and Middle East Vice President of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics. He has developed a theory of Cognitive Poetics, and applied it to rhyme, sound symbolism, poetic rhythm, metaphor, poetry and altered states of consciousness, period style, genre, archetypal patterns, translation theory, and critical activities. His books in English include Poetic Rhythm: Structure and Performance?n Empirical Study in Cognitive Poetics (1998), Toward a Theory of Cognitive Poetics (1992), What Makes Sound Patterns Expressive: The Poetic Mode of Speech-Perception (1992), On Metaphoring (1987), The Road to "Kubla Khan" (1987), A Perception-Oriented Theory of Metre (1977). His non-academic publications include volumes of poetry translated into Hebrew and memoirs from the Holocaust (in Hebrew).
Home Page: http://www.tau.ac.il/~tsurxx/

Sara van den Berg

Frances Vargas Gibbons

Margot Waddell read classics and English literature at Cambridge University, where she also received a Ph.D. in English, with a dissertation on George Eliot. She trained as a child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, London, and is now a consultant child psychotherapist in the Adolescent Department. She is an associate member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, where she also trained, and she works in private practice. She is the author of several books, most recently Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of Personality (1998), and of essays on George Eliot. She has been concerned, both in George Eliot's fiction and in psychoanalysis, with the problems in trying to develop a sense of the good that is informed by the ideal without being confused with it.

Robert Walz is an assistant professor of English at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches writing and literature courses. Dr. Walz has also taught advanced literature and philosophy courses at many of the universities and colleges in the Central Pennsylvania area.
     Dr. Walz is particularly interested in British and American Romantic writers. He majored in English and Philosophy at Bucknell University and received his doctorate from Lehigh University. For that degree he submitted a dissertation that applies an object relations analysis to William Wordsworth's creative relationship with the feminine archetype of the Great Mother and to his poetry of the sublime. Dr. Walz finds that object relations psychology offers an invaluable tool for literary criticism by helping to explicate how during the creative act the writer's mind and the world transform each other through an alternating pattern of total identification and separation.

David Willbern

Meg Harris Williams is an independent scholar and artist.

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