Configurations

James Bunn is Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo where he teaches English and literary theory. He has written a book on the semiotics of modeling, The Dimensionality of Signs, Tools, and Models (Indiana University Press, 1981). His most recent work, “Availing the Physics of Least Action,” will appear in New Literary History.

Lysa Hochroth has taught in the French Departments at Columbia University and at the University of the District of Columbia. She received her Ph.D. in 1991 from Columbia University with a dissertation entitled “The Notion and Functioning of a Parasurrealist Group.” Her present research involves an extension of her doctoral studies for the Université de Paris VII on the topic of subjectivity and subjectivities in the twentieth century. She is also collaborating on research and translation for a series of books to be published by Semiotext(e) on Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari.

Jay Labinger is Administrator of the Beckman Institute at Caltech, where he is also active in research in the fields of organometallic chemistry and catalysis. His article in this issue, and a commentary on social and cultural studies of science forthcoming in Social Studies of Science, are his first non-technical publications.

Matthew G. Looper is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. His dissertation focuses on ancient Maya sculpture of Quiriguá, Guatemala. Although his main research focuses on relationships of art to politics in ancient America, he has published on European art history as well.

Lissa Roberts is Associate Professor of History at San Diego State University. She has written extensively on natural philosophy in eighteenth-century France.

Robert E. Stillman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he holds a Chair for Teaching Excellence and the title of Chancellor’s Teaching Scholar. In addition to his publications on English Renaissance literature, he has authored several recent articles on language debates and early modern sciences. His book-length study on the cultural politics of natural philosophy, The New Philosophy and Universal Languages in Seventeenth-Century England: Bacon, Hobbes, and Wilkins (Bucknell University Press), is scheduled for publication this year.

J.P.Telotte is a Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he teaches film studies. Co-editor of the journal Post Script, he has authored books on horror, film noir, and cult films. His current project is a forthcoming study of the science fiction genre.