----------------------------------------------------------------- Notes on Contributors Volume 9, Number 3 May, 1999 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Burke Anthony Burke holds an M.A. in Communications (UTS), and recently completed a Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations at the Australian National University. He has taught politics, media, and cultural studies and is currently working as a Researcher in the Australian Senate. He is finalising a book on Australia, Asia, and the discourse of security. Loren Glass Loren Glass is a research fellow at the Oregon State University Center for the Humanities. He is currently completing a book on authorial celebrity in the United States. Heather J. Hicks Heather J. Hicks is an Assistant Professor of English at Villanova University, where she teaches courses on postmodern fiction, feminist fiction and theory, and science fiction. She has published on the work of William Gibson, and she is currently writing a book about American authors' representations of the transformation of labor after World War II. Julian Levinson Julian Levinson is completing a doctorate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His dissertation, "Chosen Pieties: Jewish Writing and the Sacred in Postwar America," considers the work of Alfred Kazin, Arthur A. Cohen, and Cynthia Ozick. His articles include "Af A Derekh Mit Yiddish" ("On the Yiddish Road") published in Yiddish in Forverts (April 2, 1999), and "The Tragic Flaw of Irving Howe" in Prooftexts (May, 1999). James McCorkle James McCorkle is an independent scholar and poet living in upstate New York. His books include The Still Performance: Writing, Self, and Interconnection in Five Postmodern American Poets and Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry. In 1997 he received a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for his poetry. Brian Morris Brian Morris teaches part-time in the Cultural Studies Program at the University of Melbourne where he is also completing a Ph.D. on cultural studies and the city. His most recent publication is "The Architecture of Entertainment: Learning from Melbourne's Crown Casino" in The UTS Review 5:1 (1999). Graham J. Murphy Graham J. Murphy is a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at the University of Alberta. His dissertation research involves the overlap of Science Fiction and Cyberculture and how the two mediums reconfigure and/or reinforce configurations of race, gender, and identity. His most recent publication is "Layered Imagings and Colonial Fantasy: Possession, Penetration, and Tarzan Comic Books" for the October 1998 issue of IMAGES: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture (available online at http://www.imagesjournal.com/features.htm). In addition to his dissertation interests, he is also co-editor with E.W. Pitcher of Paddy Whacking, a forthcoming anthology of Irish anecdotes, puns, and stories published in periodicals of the early American Republic. Mahmut Mutman Mahmut Mutman is Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Bilkent University, where he teaches courses in theories of representation, culture, and media. He has widely published in Turkish and English, and is currently completing a book manuscript on cultural identity in neo-colonial globalization. Steven A. Nardi Steven A. Nardi is completing a doctorate in English at Princeton University. His dissertation examines the links between jazz, sentimentality, and conventional meter in the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance. Forthcoming publications include studies of Langston Hughes and Lorna Dee Cervantes. Richard Quinn Richard Quinn is completing a doctorate in English at The University of Iowa. Currently, he is a visiting scholar at The University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. His doctoral dissertation addresses the interaction of improvisation, composition, ethics, and history in late twentieth-century American culture. He has published articles and reviews on Theodor Adorno, jazz, and contemporary poetics. Jed Rasula Jed Rasula is currently a Professor of English at Queen's University in Canada; he previously taught at Pomona College after receiving his Ph.D. in History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz in 1989. He has published extensively on contemporary poetry and on jazz. He is the co-editor, with Steve McCaffery, of Imagining Language (MIT Press, 1998) and the author of The American Poetry Wax Museum (NCTE, 1996). 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