Contributors

Richard Armstrong is an Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Houston. He is the author of A Compulsion for Antiquity: Freud and the Ancient World (Cornell University Press, ) and Theory and Theatricality: Classical Drama in the Age of Grand Hysteria (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), among other chapters and articles on early psychoanalysis and the ancient world.

Mary Bergstein won the American Psychoanalytic Association “Courage to Dream” Book Prize for Mirrors of Memory: Freud, Photography, and the History of Art (Cornell University Press, ). Her other books include In Looking Back One Learns to See: Marcel Proust and Photography (Rodopi/Brill, ) and The Sculpture of Nanni di Banco (Princeton University Press, ). She is currently working on a book about visual culture in Freud's Vienna, and an essay titled “Faux Nudes and Body Art, 1900” about body-stockings and women's animal tattoos. She is Professor Emerita at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI.

Julia Hell is a professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and an affiliated faculty member of the Contexts for Classics program at the University of Michigan, where she teaches modern German literature, visual culture, and political theory. She has published on post-war/post-Holocaust culture in both Germanies and is the author of Post-Fascist Fantasies: Psychoanalysis, History, and the Literature of East Germany (Duke University Press, ) and co-editor of Ruins of Modernity (Duke University Press, ). Her most recent book, The Conquest of Ruins: The Third Reich and the Fall of Rome (University of Chicago Press, ) focuses on the intersection of imperium and ruin studies and mobilizes Freudian and post-Freudian theories to trace European discourses and tropes about Imperial Rome's decline and death. Starting with