Notes on Contributors 
(c) 2003 

PMC 14.1

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Chris Bongie 

Chris Bongie is Professor of English at Queen's University and the author
of two books, both published by Stanford University Press: Exotic
Memories: Literature, Colonialism, and the Fin de Siècle (1991) and
Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature. His
translation and critical edition of Victor Hugo's novel about the Haitian
Revolution, Bug-Jargal (1826), will be coming out with Broadview Press in
2004. 


Christy L. Burns 

Christy L. Burns is Associate Professor of English at the College of
William and Mary. Her book, Gestural Politics: Stereotype and Parody in
Joyce, came out in 2000 from SUNY Press. She has published articles on
film and media studies, and on nationalism, gender, and sexuality issues
in Joyce, Woolf, Winterson, Boland, and others. Her current book project
addresses the role of sensate experience in modern to postmodern fiction


Bradley Butterfield 

Bradley Butterfield is Associate Professor of English at University of
Wisconsin at La Crosse. He has published several articles comparing
twentieth-century theory and fiction, including an essay on Baudrillard
and J.G. Ballard's Crash in PMLA, and is now working on a book on
post-Nietzschean aesthetic theories. 


Diane Davis 

Diane Davis is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and English at the
University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches graduate and
undergraduate courses in rhetorical theory, contemporary writing theory,
and cyberculture. Her first book, Breaking Up [at] Totality: A Rhetoric of
Laughter, appeared in 2000 with Southern Illinois Press; she is currently
finishing a second book, Inessential Solidarity, and editing The Ronell
Reader. 


Del Doughty 

Del Doughty is Associate Professor of English at Huntington College. His
second collection of poems, Flow, will be published as an artists' book by
Red Moon Press in 2004. 


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 working on a book on Adorno. 


Valerie Karno 

Valerie Karno is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Rhode
Island, where she specializes in Law and Literature. Her most recent
article, "Remote Justice: Tuning In to Small Claims, Race, and the
Reinvigoration of Civic Judgment," is forthcoming in Studies in Law,
Politics, and Society. She is currently revising her manuscript, Legal
Topographies. She teaches courses in Literature and Democracy and
Postmodernism of the Americas. 


Claudia Brodsky Lacour 

Claudia Brodsky Lacour is Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton
University and ancien directeur de programme at the Collège International
de Philosophie, Paris. She is the author of The Imposition of Form:
Studies in Narrative Representation and Knowledge (1987), Lines of
Thought: Discourse, Architectonics, and the Origin of Modern Philosophy
(1996), and several articles on German, French, and English literature and
philosophy from the Enlightenment through the present. 


Peter Yoonsuk Paik 

Peter Yoonsuk Paik is Assistant Professor in the Department of French,
Italian, and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin at
Milwaukee. He has written on Hermann Broch, Paul Celan, Gilles Deleuze,
and Andrei Tarkovsky, and his work has appeared in the Yale Broch
Symposium and Religion and the Arts. He is currently completing a
manuscript dealing with revelatory experience in literature and film. 


Theresa Smalec 

Theresa Smalec is a doctoral candidate in Performance Studies at New York
University. Her dissertation-in-progress is titled "Body of Work:
Liveness, Mediation, and Ron Vawter's Performance Archive." Her recent
work has been published in Delirium, TDR: The Drama Review, Theatre
Journal, and The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. 


Leonard Wilcox 

Leonard Wilcox is Head of the Department of American Studies at the
University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is author of V.
F. Calverton: Radical in the American Grain (Temple, 1992), and editor of
Rereading Sam Shepard: Critical Essays on the Plays of Sam Shepard (St.
Martins, 1993). He has explored the relations between fiction and
postmodern culture in essays on Joan Didion, Nathanael West, Sam Shepard,
and Don DeLillo. He is currently working on a book on American
postmodernism. 

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