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Contributors
Volume 17, Number 1September, 2006
Arturo Arias
Arturo Arias is Greenleaf Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies at Tulane University. Co-writer of the film El Norte (1984), he has published six novels in Spanish. He is also the author of two books on Central American culture and literature, The Identity of the Word, and Ceremonial Gestures, a critical edition of Miguel Angel Asturias's Mulata, and The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy. He was 2001-03 President of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). His Taking their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America is forthcoming in 2007.
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Judith Butler
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge, 1990), Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Routledge, 1993), and Excitable Speech (Routledge, 1997), among other books. Giving an Account of Oneself (Fordham University Press, 2005) considers the partial opacity of the subject, and the relation between critique and ethical reflection. She is currently working on essays pertaining to Jewish Philosophy, focusing on pre-Zionist criticisms of state violence. She continues to write on cultural and literary theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism, and sexual politics.
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Melinda Cooper
Melinda Cooper graduated from the University of Paris VIII in 2001 and is currently post-doctoral fellow at the University of East Anglia. Her book Surplus Life: Biotechnics and the Transformations of Capital is forthcoming from the In Vivo series of Washington University Press in 2007. She is guest coeditor, along with Catherine Waldby, of a forthcoming issue of the journal Biosocieties on biotechnology, neoliberalism, and globalization.
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Bill Freind
Bill Freind is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Rowan University. He has published articles in Poetics Today, the Journal of Modern Literature, Paideuma and other journals. He is editing a collection of essays about the Araki Yasusada affair and is at work on a manuscript entitled Advertising the Avant-Garde: Mass Communication and Innovative Art.
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Jehanne-Marie Gavarini
Jehanne-Marie Gavarini is a visual artist whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She writes about art and visual culture and is the co-translator of Tomboy, an autobiographical novel by Nina Bouraoui, forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press. Her essay "Permeable Borders in Notre Musique" will be included in Zoom In, Zoom Out: Crossing Borders in Contemporary European Cinema (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007). Gavarini is Associate Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Visiting Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University.
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Karen L. Kopelson
Karen L. Kopelson is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Louisville, where she teaches writing, literature, and critical theory. Her work has appeared in College English, College Composition and Communication, and JAC. She is currently completing an article that critiques the recovery movement.
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Michael Mirabile
Michael Mirabile is Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College, where he teaches courses on the modern British novel, critical theory, postmodernism, and contemporary fiction. He is writing a book on contemporary refigurations of modernist fiction in light of new media, critical theory, and the politics of globalization.
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Viet Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen is an Associate Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford UP, 2002), and his articles and short fiction have appeared in American Literary History, Western American Literature, positions: east asia cultures critique, Asian American Studies After Critical Mass, New Centennial Review, Manoa, and Best New American Voices 2007, among others. The working title of his current project is "Memories of the Bad War: Viet Nam in the Global Imagination."
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Theresa Smalec
Theresa Smalec is a doctoral candidate in Performance Studies at New York University. She teaches and advises in the College of Arts and Sciences. Her reviews and articles have appeared in Theatre Journal, TDR: The Drama Review, and Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. Smalec is the recipient of a SSHRC doctoral fellowship and the Sir James Lougheed Award of Distinction for Canadian students studying abroad.
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Her books include the translation into English with critical introduction of Jacques Derrida's De la grammatologie (1976); Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-Coloniality (1993); Outside in the Teaching Machine (1993); A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present (1999); Death of a Discipline (2003), and Other Asias (2005).
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Hong-An Truong
Hong-An Truong is an M.F.A. candidate in Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine, where she is currently pursuing concentrations in both Critical Theory and Asian American Studies. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Center for Photography at Woodstock in New York and at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. Her photographs and videos have been in exhibitions and screenings at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College, the International Center for Photography in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the UC-Santa Cruz Film Festival, and the Laguna Art Museum. Her videos will be on exhibition at the Torrance Art Museum and the Oakland University Art Gallery in 2007.
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D. Harlan Wilson
D. Harlan Wilson is Assistant Professor of English at Wright State University-Lake Campus. His literary criticism has appeared or is forthcoming in Journal of Popular Culture, Foundation, Science Fiction Studies, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, and Extrapolation. He is the author of four books of fiction, most recently a meta-pulp science fiction novel, Dr. Identity, or, Farewell to Plaquedemia.
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