作者簡介
Erik Sherman Roraback teaches critical theory, international cinema, James Joyce and U.S. literature in Charles University (est. 1348) and in F.A.M.U. (The Academy of Performing Arts, Film and TV School) at Prague. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford (D.Phil.) and from Pomona College (B.A.) and has been Visiting Professor at the Universite de Provence. He has published scholarly articles on such subjects as Michelangelo Antonioni and Spinoza, Orson Welles's Mr. Arkadin/Confidential Report, buildings of St. Petersburg, Inter-cultural Studies, Walter Benjamin, Maurice Blanchot, Deleuze and Leibniz, Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Modernity and the Baroque, Jean-Luc Nancy and Community, the 120-year Czech and Slovak reception of Henry James, Thomas Pynchon, and on U.S. Literature in scholarly journals such as Pynchon Notes and in scholarly presses such as The Continuum Publishing Company. The author has also given invited lectures at The Evergreen State College, Kansas State University, University College-Cork, Universitat Konstanz, University of Oxford and Universitat Wien.
