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Notes on Contributors
*Volume 16, Number 2*
/January, 2006/
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David Banash
David Banash is Assistant Professor of English at Western Illinois
University, where he teaches courses in contemporary American
literature and popular culture. His essays and reviews have
appeared in Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life,
Iowa Review, Paradoxa, Postmodern Culture, Reconstruction, Science
Fiction Studies, and Utopian Studies. He recently co-edited a
special issue of The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies entitled
"Suburbia," and he is a co-founder of the annual Craft, Critique,
Culture conference. He is currently at work on a book
investigating collage and media technologies in twentieth-century
culture.
Allan G. Borst
Allan G. Borst is a doctoral candidate in English at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently
completing a dissertation on how concepts of addiction based on
the models of personal will power, moral failure, and recovery
produced by American Temperance movements of the nineteenth
century are confronted, adapted, and modified by twentieth-century
American capitalism and urbanization.
Eu Jin Chua
Eu Jin Chua is a graduate student and Commonwealth Scholar at the
London Consortium graduate school (Birkbeck College, University of
London, jointly with the Architectural Association, the Institute
of Contemporary Arts, and the Tate galleries, London, England). He
is writing a doctoral thesis on the idea of cinematic enchantment.
Oliver Harris
Oliver Harris began as a Burroughs scholar with a Ph.D. at Christ
Church, Oxford, in the 1980s. Since then he has edited The Letters
of William S. Burroughs, 1945-1959 (1993), Junky: the definitive
text of "Junk" (2003), and The Yage Letters Redux (2006), with
"Everything Lost": The Latin American Notebook of William S.
Burroughs forthcoming in 2007. As well as writing numerous
critical articles on Burroughs and the Beat Generation, he has
published the book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination
(2003). He is Professor of American Literature at Keele
University, England.
Martin Hipsky
Martin Hipsky is Associate Professor of English at Ohio Wesleyan
University, where he teaches late Victorian literature, British
modernism, and critical theory. He has published on popular film,
Pierre Bourdieu, and the novelist Mary Ward. He is finishing a
book about the British popular romance in the modernist era.
Patrick Query
Patrick Query is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at
Loyola University Chicago. His dissertation is on ritual and the
idea of Europe in British and Irish literature between the two
world wars. His articles have appeared in the Yeats Eliot Review,
Text and Presentation, and book collections on Evelyn Waugh and
Graham Greene. He writes frequent reviews for the Evelyn Waugh
Newsletter and Studies.
Chloi Taylor
Chloi Taylor is a doctoral candidate in the Department of
Philosophy at the University of Toronto, where she is completing a
dissertation on the culture of confession. She has published
essays on Aristotle, Hegel, Foucault, Levinas, and feminist ethics
in journals such as Ancient Philosophy and Symposium: The Canadian
Journal of Continental Philosophy. She has also published articles
on psychoanalysis, postmodern ethics, confession, and the writings
of Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Annie Ernaux in the
Journal of Modern Literature. She has an article forthcoming on
Hegel and the paintings of Jacques-Louis David in Eighteenth
Century Studies.
Justin Vicari
Justin Vicari is a creative writer and film theorist. His essays
on film have been published in Senses of Cinema and Jump Cut. He
is the author of a fiction chapbook, In a Garden of Eden (Plan B
Press, 2005), and the winner of poetry prizes from Third Coast and
New Millennium Writings. His work also appears in Perigee,
Memorious, Slant, Spillway, Poetry Motel, Aught, Black Rock &
Sage, BlazeVOX, Red Booth, and other literary reviews.
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