------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notes on Contributors *Volume 17, Number 3* /May, 2007/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright (c) 2007-1990 Postmodern Culture & the Johns Hopkins University Press. CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE ARE AVAILABLE FREE OF CHARGE UNTIL RELEASE OF THE NEXT ISSUE. A TEXT-ONLY ARCHIVE OF THE JOURNAL IS ALSO AVAILABLE FREE OF CHARGE. FOR FULL HYPERTEXT ACCESS TO BACK ISSUES, SEARCH UTILITIES, AND OTHER VALUABLE FEATURES, YOU OR YOUR INSTITUTION MAY SUBSCRIBE TO PROJECT MUSE , THE ON-LINE JOURNALS PROJECT OF THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS.