The Norton Anthology of World Literature (Shorter Second Edition)  (Vol. 1)
Sarah Lawall, Ph.D. Yale, is  Professor of Comparative Literature at the  University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her  publications include Critics of  Consciousness: The Existential Structures of  Literature and Reading World  Literature: Theory, History, Practice.Jerome W. Clinton, Ph.D.  Michigan, is Professor of Near Eastern Studies  at Princeton University. His publications  include two book-length translations of two  sections of the Persian national epic, the  Shahnameh: The Tragedy of Sohrab and  Rostam and In the Dragon’s Claws: The  Story of Rostam and Esfandiyar.Francis Abiola Irele, formerly  Professor of French, University of Ibadan,  Nigeria, was for several years Professor of  African, French, and Comparative Literature at  the Ohio State University. After retiring from  Ohio State in 2003, he became Visiting Professor of African and African American Studies at  Harvard University. Among his many publications  are The Cambridge History of African and  Caribbean Literature (edited with Simon  Gikandi) and two collections of essays, The  African Experience in Literature and  Ideology and The African Imagination:  Literature in Africa and the Black  Diaspora. He is a contributing editor to  The Norton Anthology of World  Literature and General Editor of the  Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean  Literature series.Heather James, Ph.D. Berkeley,  is Associate Professor of English at the  University of Southern California. She is the  author of Shakespeare’s Troy: Drama,  Politics, and the Translation of Empire.Stephen Owen, Ph.D. Yale, is  James Bryant Conant Professor of Chinese and  Comparative Literature at Harvard University.  His books include The Great Age of Chinese  Poetry: The High T’ang; Traditional  Chinese Poetry and Poetics: An Omen of the  World; Remembrances: The Experience of  the Past in Classical Chinese Literature;  and An Anthology of Chinese Literature:  Beginnings to 1911.Lee Patterson, Ph.D. Yale, is F. W. Hilles Professor of English at Yale  University. He is the author of Chaucer and  the Subject of History; Literary  Practice and Social Change in Britain,  1380–1530; and Negotiating the Past:  The Historical Understanding of Medieval  Literature.Indira Viswanathan Peterson,  Ph.D. Harvard, is Professor of Asian Studies at  Mount Holyoke College. Her publications include  Poems to Siva: The Hymns of the Tamil  Saints.Patricia Meyer Spacks, Ph.D. Berkeley, is Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Her publications include An Argument of Images: The Poetry of Alexander Pope; The Female Imagination; The Adolescent Idea: Myths of Youth and the Adult Imagination; Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels; and Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind.William G. Thalmann, Ph.D. Yale, is Professor of Classics at the University of  Southern California. His publications include  The Swineherd and the Bow: Representations  of Class in the Odyssey.