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Notes on Contributors
Volume 15, Number 3
May, 2005
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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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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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