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Contributors
Volume 15, Number 3May, 2005
Vivian Nun Halloran
Vivian Nun Halloran is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University, where she teaches Caribbean literature, literary theory, postmodern literature about slavery, and food in popular culture. She has published on V.S. Naipaul, Caryl Phillips, Fast Food Nation, and Fear Factor. She is finishing a book manuscript on mourning in Caribbean postmodern historical novels about slavery.
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Megan Kerr
Megan Kerr is a graduate of the University of Cape Town and the University of Oxford and specializes in poststructural and deconstructive theory, with subsidiary interests in hypertext fiction and contemporary British novelists. Her work is forthcoming in New Writing: the International Journal for the Theory and Practice of Creative Writing and in the conference proceedings from "Negation: Form, Figure of Speech, Conceptualisation" (October 2004).
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Michael Marder
Michael Marder is a doctoral student in the Department of Philosophy at the Graduate Faculty of New School University, New York. His current research interests cluster around deconstruction, phenomenology, critical theory of the Frankfurt School, and Marxian political economy. His articles on Derrida, Nietzsche, Marx, Benjamin, and Adorno have recently appeared in the pages of Rethinking Marxism, Epoché, Telos, and Intervention.
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Jan Mieszkowski
Jan Mieszkowski is Associate Professor of German and Humanities at Reed College, where he teaches eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European literature and philosophy. He is the author of Labors of Imagination (Fordham 2006) and has published widely on idealism and Romanticism, modern aesthetics, and critical theory.
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Mario Ortiz-Robles
Mario Ortiz-Robles is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he teaches literary theory and nineteenth-century literature. His current book project, Subject Events: Readings in the Performativity of the Victorian Novel, investigates the relation between the language of action and the language of representation in the realist novel against the backdrop of Victorian ideologies of individualism.
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Robert S. Oventile
Robert S. Oventile is Assistant Professor of English at Pasadena City College. His book reviews and essays have appeared in Crossings, American@, Culture Machine, Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, The Review of Communication, and inside english.
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Bob Perelman
Bob Perelman is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published sixteen books of poetry, including Ten to One: Selected Poems (Wesleyan) and Playing Bodies, a painting/poem collaboration with Francie Shaw (Granary Books). His critical books are The Trouble With Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein and Zukofsky (California) and The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History (Princeton). He has edited two collections of poets' talks: Hills Talks and Writing/Talks (Southern Illinois).
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Alex Thomson
Alex Thomson is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Deconstruction and Democracy: Derrida's Politics of Friendship (Continuum, 2005) and of Adorno: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, forthcoming).
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Chad Wickman
Chad Wickman is a doctoral candidate in English at Kent State University. His research focuses on rhetorical and critical theory and ways in which writing, as a mode of human communication and as a material technology, shapes thought, action, and civic discourse.
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R. John Williams
R. John Williams is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. He has articles forthcoming in Comparative Critical Studies, Research in African Literatures, and Dialogue. His dissertation deals with the emergence of a culture of "anthroplasticity" in Cold War American orientalism.
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David Wills
David Wills is Professor of French and English at SUNY-Albany. His latest book is a series of essays on Derrida entitled Matchbook: Essays in Deconstruction (Stanford, 2005).
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