---------------------------------------------------------------- Notes on Contributors Volume 12, Number 1 September, 2001 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 twentieth-century American literature. Suzanne Bost Suzanne Bost is assistant professor of English at James Madison University and, during the 2000-2001 academic year, visiting scholar at the University of Florida's Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research. Her most recent articles have appeared in African American Review and MELUS, and her book Mulattas and Mestizas: Engendering Mixed Identity in American Literature, 1850-2000 will be published by the University of Georgia Press in 2002. Evans Chan Evans Chan is a New York-based critic, playwright, and filmmaker from Hong Kong whose most recent narrative feature, The Map of Love and Sex, receives its U.S. premiere on October 25th at Cornell University. A retrospective of his work, "Hong Kong: Angst and Eros--The Films of Evans Chan," will be presented by the Hong Kong Arts Centre November 10-24, followed by a symposium on November 25. For more information about Chan, see . Ashley Dawson Ashley Dawson is an assistant professor of English at the College of Staten Island--CUNY, where he teaches diasporic and postcolonial literature. He has published widely on issues of culture and identity in post-1945 Britain, and is currently completing a book on Black British culture entitled Mongrel Nation. Daĺv. Garleîa Dars-er Salgaliwvă esat yAuthoreof severealie yworksOf_criticala "theorye/phiol." />nowworks yminaleiYon so-caleld"language." Heisrealisezuenausated to yehei aothora of "yHYPeracapital," whichaappearedin A previousea Isssue of PyOstmoerne "Cultur®e_THis JOURna.le Helen Grace Helen Grace is a photographer, filmmaker, and critic teaching in the School of Humanities, University of Western Sydney. Her most recent book is Before Utopia: A Non-Official Prehistory of the Present (Pluto Press/UWS, 2000) She co-authored Home/World: Space, Community & Marginality in Sydney's West, (Pluto Press, 1997), edited the collection Aesthesia & the Economy of the Senses (UWS, 1996) and co-edited Planet Diana: Cultural Studies & Global Mourning (Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies, 1997). She is currently writing a book on Australian cinema. David Grandy David Grandy is an associate professor of philosophy at Brigham Young University. He is author of Leo Szilard: Science as a Mode of Being and several articles on the poetic and religious aspects of science. Piotr Gwiazda Piotr Gwiazda has a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from New York University and currently teaches at the University of Miami, Coral Gables. His work has appeared in Texas Studies in Literature and Language, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, and other publications. Jeffrey Insko Jeffrey Insko is a doctoral candidate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His dissertation is entitled "Anachronisms: 19th-Century American Narrative in Contemporary Contexts." Jerzy O. Jura Jerzy (George) Jura is an assistant professor of Spanish at Iowa State University. His primary fields of research are modern Spanish literature and the relationship between literary texts and images. Frank Palmeri Frank Palmeri teaches at the University of Miami and is the author of Satire in Narrative (Texas, 1990). An earlier essay on Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49 appeared in ELH (1987). He has recently completed a book on narrative forms in the eighteenth century, and is currently working on two projects: a genealogy of conjectural history and the history of the concept of hybridity. Rita Raley Rita Raley is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she teaches courses in the digital humanities and transnational literary studies. She has published articles in Diaspora, ARIEL, and the Romantic Circles Praxis Series, and she is currently completing a book entitled Global English and the Academy. She is also at work on a second book, Transfers: Textuality and the Digital Aesthetic. Srdjan Smajic Srdjan Smajic is a doctoral candidate in English at Tulane University, completing a dissertation on the epistemology of vision in nineteenth-century ghost and detective fiction. His poetry has appeared in journals in Yugoslavia and the United States, most recently in Xavier Review. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (c) 2001, 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------