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Notes on Contributors
*Volume 17, Number 1*
/September, 2006/
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Arturo Arias
Arturo Arias is Greenleaf Visiting Professor of Latin American
Studies at Tulane University. Co-writer of the film El Norte
(1984), he has published six novels in Spanish. He is also the
author of two books on Central American culture and literature,
The Identity of the Word, and Ceremonial Gestures, a critical
edition of Miguel Angel Asturias's Mulata, and The Rigoberta
Menchú Controversy. He was 2001-03 President of the Latin American
Studies Association (LASA). His Taking their Word: Literature and
the Signs of Central America is forthcoming in 2007.
Judith Butler
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of
Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of
California, Berkeley. She is the author of Gender Trouble:
Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge, 1990), Bodies
That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Routledge, 1993),
and Excitable Speech (Routledge, 1997), among other books. Giving
an Account of Oneself (Fordham University Press, 2005) considers
the partial opacity of the subject, and the relation between
critique and ethical reflection. She is currently working on
essays pertaining to Jewish Philosophy, focusing on pre-Zionist
criticisms of state violence. She continues to write on cultural
and literary theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism, and
sexual politics.
Melinda Cooper
Melinda Cooper graduated from the University of Paris VIII in 2001
and is currently post-doctoral fellow at the University of East
Anglia. Her book Surplus Life: Biotechnics and the Transformations
of Capital is forthcoming from the In Vivo series of Washington
University Press in 2007. She is guest coeditor, along with
Catherine Waldby, of a forthcoming issue of the journal
Biosocieties on biotechnology, neoliberalism, and globalization.
Bill Freind
Bill Freind is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at
Rowan University. He has published articles in Poetics Today, the
Journal of Modern Literature, Paideuma and other journals. He is
editing a collection of essays about the Araki Yasusada affair and
is at work on a manuscript entitled Advertising the Avant-Garde:
Mass Communication and Innovative Art.
Jehanne-Marie Gavarini
Jehanne-Marie Gavarini is a visual artist whose work has been
exhibited nationally and internationally. She writes about art and
visual culture and is the co-translator of Tomboy, an
autobiographical novel by Nina Bouraoui, forthcoming from the
University of Nebraska Press. Her essay "Permeable Borders in
Notre Musique" will be included in Zoom In, Zoom Out: Crossing
Borders in Contemporary European Cinema (Cambridge Scholars Press,
2007). Gavarini is Associate Professor of Art at the University of
Massachusetts Lowell and Visiting Scholar at the Women's Studies
Research Center at Brandeis University.
Karen L. Kopelson
Karen L. Kopelson is Assistant Professor of English at the
University of Louisville, where she teaches writing, literature,
and critical theory. Her work has appeared in College English,
College Composition and Communication, and JAC. She is currently
completing an article that critiques the recovery movement.
Michael Mirabile
Michael Mirabile is Visiting Assistant Professor of English and
Humanities at Reed College, where he teaches courses on the modern
British novel, critical theory, postmodernism, and contemporary
fiction. He is writing a book on contemporary refigurations of
modernist fiction in light of new media, critical theory, and the
politics of globalization.
Viet Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen is an Associate Professor of English and
American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern
California. He is the author of Race and Resistance: Literature
and Politics in Asian America (Oxford UP, 2002), and his articles
and short fiction have appeared in American Literary History,
Western American Literature, positions: east asia cultures
critique, Asian American Studies After Critical Mass, New
Centennial Review, Manoa, and Best New American Voices 2007, among
others. The working title of his current project is "Memories of
the Bad War: Viet Nam in the Global Imagination."
Theresa Smalec
Theresa Smalec is a doctoral candidate in Performance Studies at
New York University. She teaches and advises in the College of
Arts and Sciences. Her reviews and articles have appeared in
Theatre Journal, TDR: The Drama Review, and Critique: Studies in
Contemporary Fiction. Smalec is the recipient of a SSHRC doctoral
fellowship and the Sir James Lougheed Award of Distinction for
Canadian students studying abroad.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is Avalon Foundation Professor in the
Humanities and Director of the Center for Comparative Literature
and Society at Columbia University. Her books include the
translation into English with critical introduction of Jacques
Derrida's De la grammatologie (1976); Thinking Academic Freedom in
Gendered Post-Coloniality (1993); Outside in the Teaching Machine
(1993); A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of
the Vanishing Present (1999); Death of a Discipline (2003), and
Other Asias (2005).
Hong-An Truong
Hong-An Truong is an M.F.A. candidate in Studio Art at the
University of California, Irvine, where she is currently pursuing
concentrations in both Critical Theory and Asian American Studies.
She has been an artist-in-residence at the Center for Photography
at Woodstock in New York and at the Visual Studies Workshop in
Rochester, New York. Her photographs and videos have been in
exhibitions and screenings at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens
College, the International Center for Photography in New York, the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the UC-Santa Cruz Film Festival,
and the Laguna Art Museum. Her videos will be on exhibition at the
Torrance Art Museum and the Oakland University Art Gallery in 2007.
D. Harlan Wilson
D. Harlan Wilson is Assistant Professor of English at Wright State
University-Lake Campus. His literary criticism has appeared or is
forthcoming in Journal of Popular Culture, Foundation, Science
Fiction Studies, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, and
Extrapolation. He is the author of four books of fiction, most
recently a meta-pulp science fiction novel, Dr. Identity, or,
Farewell to Plaquedemia.
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