Wendy Griswold, Professor of Sociology and Comparative Literary Studies, and affiliated with English Professor Griswold holds a Ph.D. from Harvard (1980) and has previously taught there and at the University of Chicago. Her research and teaching interests center on cultural sociology; sociological approaches to literature, art and religion; time and place; and comparative studies in Europe and Africa. Recent books include Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and The Novel in Nigeria (Princeton UP, 2000) and Cultures and Societies in a Changing World (Pine Forge 1994), which has been translated i