---------------------------------------------------------------- Notes on Contributors Volume 11, Number 1 September, 2000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Sheli Ayers Sheli Ayers is completing a doctorate in English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MFA in Writing at California Institute of the Arts. Her dissertation analyzes the representation of redemption through images of ruin in postmodern texts. Current projects include archival research for Norman M. Klein's Missing Los Angeles: A Guide to Ruins, Fragments, and Obliterated Structures (forthcoming from RAM Publications, 2001) and a collaborative website for new research called IMPS, to debut this Fall. Her essay "Twin Peaks, Weak Language, and the Resurrection of Affect" will appear in Weird on Top: The Cinema and Television of David Lynch (forthcoming from Flicks Books, 2001). She teaches courses on writing, media, and aesthetics. David Banash David Banash holds an M.A. in English from Colorado State University. A doctoral candidate in English at the University of Iowa, he is currently writing a dissertation that examines the influence of collage on 20th century literature. Mark Hansen Mark Hansen teaches cultural theory and media studies at Princeton University. He is author of Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing, a critical evaluation of the reduction of technology to language in various 20th-century cultural theorists and philosophers. He is currently at work on two projects: a theoretical account of cultural agency in light of recent work in cognitive and biological sciences and a study of new media art focusing on the role of affect and embodiment. With Taylor Carman, he is co-editor of and contributor to the Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty (forthcoming from Cambridge, 2001). Terry Harpold Terry Harpold is an assistant professor of English, Film, and Media Studies at the University of Florida. He is currently working on a book-length project on psychoanalytic theory and digital culture. His essay "Dark Continents: Critique of Internet Metageographies" (PMC 9.2) was co-recipient of the 1999 PMC Essay Prize for the outstanding scholarly essay published in volume 9 of Postmodern Culture. Andrew Hoberek Andrew Hoberek teaches twentieth-century American literature at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is currently writing a book on mid-century American fiction and the rise of white-collar culture which includes a chapter on Flannery O'Connor and southern literature. Jason B. Jones Jason B. Jones is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Emory University. His dissertation explores the representation of history and reform in Victorian literature. He is the author of "Loving Civilization's Discontents: Reich and Jouissance" in Tim Dean and Christopher Lane, eds. Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis (forthcoming from Chicago). Richard Kaye Richard Kaye is assistant professor of English at Hunter College at the City University of New York. His study of the English novel, The Flirt's Tragedy: Desire Without End in Fiction, will be published next year by the University Press of Virginia. His book Voluptuous Immobility: St. Sebastian and the Decadent Imagination is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. His articles and reviews have appeared in Studies in English Literature, Arizona Quarterly, Modern Fiction Studies, and The Village Voice. Kavita Philip Kavita Philip is assistant professor of Cultural Studies of Science in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Tech. Her forthcoming book, Civilizing Natures, analyzes ideologies of "nature" in nineteenth-century India. Her current projects include essays on biopolitics and property rights, and a co-edited volume on globalization and human rights. Nicola Pitchford Nicola Pitchford is assistant professor of English at Fordham University. Her articles on twentieth-century literature and culture have appeared in Genders, ALH, and Contemporary Literature. Her book on Kathy Acker and Angela Carter will be published by Bucknell University Press. Daniel Punday Daniel Punday is an assistant professor of English at Purdue University Calumet. He has published on postmodernism and narrative theory in New Literary History, Genders, College English and Narrative. He is currently at work on a book on the body in narrative theory. Michael Sinding Michael Sinding is pursuing a Ph.D. at McMaster University. His dissertation brings theories of conceptual metaphor and blending to bear on questions of genre. He is co-editing a collection of essays on Intersections of Medieval and Postmodern thought. Paul Youngquist Paul Youngquist teaches English at Penn State University and writes on British Romanticism, science fiction, and black music. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (c) 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------