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     Notes on Contributors

     Volume 10, Number 3
     May, 2000
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     Genevieve Abravanel

     Genevieve Abravanel is currently pursuing a PhD in English at
     Duke University. Her interests include modernism, gender,
     postcolonial theory, and cultural studies. She has written
     reviews on a variety of topics from Wittgenstein to contemporary
     poetry for The Wilson Quarterly and The Harvard Review.



     David Anshen

     David Anshen is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative
     Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
     His projected dissertation will explore the persistence of
     historical representation in modernist and postmodernist cultural
     and literary texts. His recent publications include articles in
     Common Ground and CineAction.



     Brian Baker

     Brian Baker is Lecturer in Media at the North East Wales
     Institute of Higher Education, Wales, UK. His publications
     include the forthcoming "The Resurrection of Desire: J.G.
     Ballard's Crash as a Transgressive Text" (Foundation, November
     2000) and "The Map of Apocalypse: Nuclear and the Space of
     Dystopia in American SF" (Festschrift for I.F. Clarke, Alan
     Sandison, ed., Macmillan 2000).

     

     Evans Chan

     Evans Yiu Shing Chan, filmmaker, dramatist, and cultural critic,
     has most recently completed Adeus Macau (Goodbye Macau), a
     documentary about the 1999 Sino-Portuguese handover. Adeus is
     Part II of his China Decolonized series, of which Part I is
     Journey to Beijing, his Hong Kong handover documentary. He is at
     work on his third narrative feature, The Map of Sex and Love.
     More information about his work is available at
     http://members.aol.com/evanschan/films.html.



     James D. Faubion

     James D. Faubion is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rice
     University. He received his BA in anthropology and philosophy
     from Reed College in 1980, and his PhD in social/cultural
     anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, in
     1990. He is the author of Modern Greek Lessons: A Primer in
     Historical Constructivism (Princeton, 1993). His edited volumes
     include Rethinking the Subject: An Anthology of European Social
     Thought (Westview, 1995); Essential Works of Michel Foucault,
     Volume 2: Aesthetics, Method, Epistemology (The New Press, 1998);
     and The Ethics of Kinship: Ethnographic Inquiries (Rowman and
     Littlefield, forthcoming 2000). He is currently completing a
     monograph on Branch Davidianism and millenarianism.



     Timothy Gray

     Timothy Gray is an assistant professor of English at the College
     of Staten Island, City University of New York, where he
     specializes in post-1945 American poetry. He has written articles
     on Frank O'Hara and Gary Snyder for Contemporary Literature
     (Winter 1998), Studies in the Humanities (December 1999), and
     Sagetrieb (forthcoming). His work in progress includes a book on
     Snyder and articles on Diane di Prima and Greil Marcus.



     Steven Helmling

     Steven Helmling, Professor of English at the University of
     Delaware, has published widely on twentieth-century literature
     and culture. His essay in this issue of Postmodern Culture is
     excerpted from his book, The Success and Failure of Fredric
     Jameson: Writing, the Sublime, and the Dialectic of Critique,
     forthcoming in November 2000 from State University of New York
     Press.



     Lawrence Johnson

     Laurie Johnson received his PhD in English from the University of
     Queensland. He has recently completed The Wolf Man's Burden, a
     book dealing with the role of Sigmund Freud's most famous patient
     in the institution of psychoanalysis. He has published essays on
     Derrida and Levinas, Deleuze and Guattari, and Heidegger and
     Levinas, and his primary research interest is the contribution of
     Abraham and Torok to psychoanalytic and critical theory.



     Kevin Marzahl

     Kevin Marzahl is a PhD student in English and Cultural Studies at
     Indiana University, specializing in postwar American poetry. His
     poetry has appeared in the Bellingham Review, Southern Poetry
     Review, and Spoon River Poetry Review.



     David Pagano

     David Pagano recently completed his PhD in English at the
     University of California, Irvine. Through examinations of
     Continental philosophies of time and American literature and
     film, his dissertation reads the temporality of modernity as an
     interaction between the apocalyptic and the gothic. He is
     currently writing on time and ghosts in Thomas Pynchon and Leslie
     Marmon Silko. He will begin teaching at Old Dominion University
     in the fall.



     Jim Rosenberg

     Jim Rosenberg has been working in non-linear poetic forms in one
     medium or another since 1966. His best-known work is Intergrams,
     published by Eastgate Systems. His interactive work includes
     dense overlays of words and intense structuring, typically by
     means of an external syntax. The preoccupying vision: taking
     hypertext into the fine structure of language. More information
     about his work is available at http://www.well.com/user/jer/.


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