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Notes on Contributors
*Volume 17, Number 3*
/May, 2007/
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Steven Helmling
Steven Helmling is Professor of English at the University of
Delaware. He has published widely on twentieth-century literature
and culture. He is the author of two books: The Esoteric Comedies
of Carlyle, Newman and Yeats (Cambridge UP, 1988) and The Success
and Failure of Fredric Jameson (SUNY, 2001). He is currently
completing a study of Adorno.
Jim Hicks
Jim Hicks is Director of the American Studies Diploma Program at
Smith College, a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and U.S. Project Director of
the Educational Partnership Program between Smith College and the
University of Sarajevo. He has published work in The Centennial
Review, The Minnesota Review, Postmodern Culture, and
Twentieth-Century Literature as well as scholarly journals in
Italy and Estonia. His current book project is entitled "Lessons
from Sarajevo: The Use and Abuse of Compassion in Telling the
Story of War."
Robert Hughes
Robert Hughes is Assistant Professor of English at Ohio State
University. He completed his Ph.D. in the Department of
Comparative Literature at Emory University in 2003. Together with
Kareen Malone, he co-edited a collection of essays theorizing the
Lacanian clinic: After Lacan: Clinical Practice and the Subject of
the Unconscious (SUNY 2002). More recently, he has completed a
book-length manuscript entitled Writing Out of Death: Literature,
Ethics, and the Beyond of Language, concerning the intersections
of ethics and aesthetics in the work of American Romantic writers
(Brown, Irving, Hawthorne) and contemporary continental figures
(Heidegger, Lacan, Levinas, Badiou).
Eric Keenaghan
Eric Keenaghan is Assistant Professor of English at the University
at Albany, SUNY. His essays on modern and contemporary poetics and
critical theory have appeared in modernism/modernity, Journal of
Modern Literature, Wallace Stevens Journal, and The Translator; he
is a contributing author to forthcoming volumes on Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Ronald Johnson, and Robert Duncan. His book Queering Cold
War Poetry: The Ethics of Vulnerability in Cuba and the United
States is forthcoming from Ohio State University Press (2009).
E.L. McCallum
E.L. McCallum is Associate Professor of English and Associate
Chair for Undergraduate Studies at Michigan State University. Her
work has appeared in Camera Obscura, differences, Poetics Today,
and CR: The New Centennial Review, among others. She is also the
author of Object Lessons: How to Do Things with Fetishism, in the
SUNY Psychoanalysis and Culture Series.
Brook Miller
Brook Miller is Assistant Professor of English at the University
of Minnesota, Morris. He specializes in twentieth-century British
literature, and he has published widely on the representation of
Anglo-American relations and economic modernization.
Jeffrey Nealon
Jeffrey T. Nealon teaches in the English Department at Penn State
University. He is author of Double Reading: Postmodernism after
Deconstruction, Alterity Politics: Ethics and Performative
Subjectivity, and The Theory Toolbox, co-authored with Susan
Searls Giroux. His latest book is Foucault Beyond Foucault: Power
and its Intensifications since 1984 (Stanford, 2008).
Carrie Noland
Carrie Noland is Associate Professor of French and Comparative
Literature at the University of California, Irvine. She is the
author of Poetry at Stake: Lyric Aesthetics and the Challenge of
Technology (Princeton, 2000) and co-editor with Sally Ann Ness of
Migrations of Gesture (Minnesota, forthcoming). Her new projects
include "Agency and Embodiment: Performing Gestures, Producing
Culture" and "Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and
Cultural Displacement," a collection of essays on diaspora and
avant-garde writing co-edited with Barrett Watten.
Arkady Plotnitsky
Arkady Plotnitsky is Professor of English and Director of the
Theory and Cultural Studies Program at Purdue University. He has
published extensively on British and European Romanticism,
continental philosophy, philosophy of physics, and the relations
among literature, philosophy, and science. His most recent books
are The Knowable and the Unknowable: Modern Science, Nonclassical
Thought, the "Two Cultures" (2002), Reading Bohr: Physics and
Philosophy, and a coedited volume (with Tilottama Rajan), Idealism
Without Absolute: Philosophy and Romantic Culture (2004).
Kyle A. Wiggins
Kyle A. Wiggins is a doctoral candidate in the English and
American Literature Department at Brandeis University. His
articles and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Kritikos,
Rocky Mountain Review of Literature, and Great Plains Quarterly.
He is currently researching revenge narratives in
twentieth-century American literature.
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