Donald R. Wehrs is Hargis Professor of English Literature at Auburn University, where he teaches eighteenth-century British literature, critical theory, and comparative literature. He is editor ofLevinas and Twentieth-Century Literature(2013), co-editor ofCognition, Literature, and History( 2014), and co-editor ofLevinas and Nineteenth-Century Literature(2009). He has published three monographs on twentieth-century African fiction-Pre-Colonial Africa in Colonial African Narratives(2008),Islam, Ethics, Revolt(2008), andAfrican Feminist Fiction and Indigenous Values(2001)-as well as book chapters and journal articles on British fiction, Shakespeare, postcolonial literature, and medieval romance.

Thomas Blake is Assistant Professor of English and Philosophy at Monroe Community College, New York. He is author of "Maternity, Morality, and Metaphor: Galdos'sDoña Perfecta, Lorca'sThe House of Bernarda Alba, and Andalusian Culture," inCognition, Literature, and History(2014) and "Staging Heidegger: Corporeal Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and the Theater" inDestiny, the Inward Quest, Temporality and Life(Springer, 2011).