----------------------------------------------------------------- Notes on Contributors Volume 10, Number 1 September, 1999 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Amato Joe Amato is the author of Symptoms of a Finer Age (Viet Nam Generation, 1994), and Bookend: Anatomies of a Virtual Self (SUNY, 1997). His recent autobiographical project, No Outlet: An Engineer in the Works, details his life during the seventies, how a technology career provided a path out of poverty. He now lives in Lafayette, Colorado, with his wife and partner Kass Fleisher, and teaches poetry with the Department of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. 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 engaged in research for a dissertation which will examine the influence of collage on 20th century literature. Michael A. Chaney Michael A. Chaney is a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. His dissertation research analyzes textual aspects of Western representations of biraciality and hybridity. In addition to his dissertation, he is completing a book about contemporary representations of biraciality in the media entitled Checking the Box Marked Other. His most recent publications include "Gender Reversal and Cultural Critique in Frances Osgood's Poetry," forthcoming in ATQ (March 2000), and "The Dismantling Evolution of Heroes: Aquaman's Amputation," forthcoming in International Journal of Comic Art (Fall 1999). Aside from academic interests, he is also a published writer of short stories and an avid oil painter and muralist. Jim Finnegan Jim Finnegan is a Post Doc at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he recently completed his Ph.D. in English, and where he teaches rhetoric and American literature. He is working on Writing to Shake the World, a revisionist, Cultural Studies book about mass culture, modernism, and the early postmodern legacy of John Reed as a bohemian avant-garde, a radical literary journalist, a cosmopolitan public intellectual, and a popular culture icon. H. Kassia Fleisher Kass Fleisher is a writer and teacher now living near Boulder, CO with her husband and collaborator, Joe Amato. Her primary interest is women's issues, and she is currently completing a work titled Uncivil Wars: The Making of the History of the Bear River Massacre, which examines contemporary efforts both to resurrect the story of this murder--and to bury the story of the mass rape--committed by Union-affiliated troops, of 300 Shoshoni, in 1863 Idaho. Carol Loranger Carol Loranger is an assistant professor of English literature at Wright State University, where she teaches courses on American literature and critical theory. She is a contributor to The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States and has published on the work of Theodore Dreiser, Horatio Alger, Thomas Pynchon, and, in collaboration with Dennis Loranger, on early Tin Pan Alley songwriting practice. Patrick McGee Patrick McGee is Professor of English at Louisiana State University. He has published books and articles on James Joyce, modern literature, postcolonial studies, cultural theory, African-American literature, and film. His most recent publication is Cinema, Theory and Political Responsibility in Contemporary Culture for Cambridge University Press. He has just completed a book for the Joyce series at University Press of Florida, History's Echo: James Joyce and the Political Economy of Social Desire. The present essay is part of a new project whose working title is Cultural Montage. Marcel O'Gorman Marcel O'Gorman received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1998, and accepted a position as Instructional Technology Specialist to the Foreign Language departments at Tulane University. Besides his extensive Web projects, O'Gorman has published articles on William Blake and on hypertext theory. He is currently completing a book that crosses Friedrich Kittler's Discourse Networks with W.J.T. Mitchell's Picture Theory in the attempt to picture a Discourse Network 2000. Claudia Sadowski-Smith Claudia Sadowski-Smith is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University. She has recently published articles on border theory, literatures of the U.S.-Mexico border, the internationalization of American Studies, and on border regions between East and Western Europe. Currently, she is co-editing a collection of essays on the future of border studies and completing a book that examines representations of globalization and modernity in contemporary rewritings of U.S. literature. Mark Sanders Mark Sanders is Assistant Professor of English and American Literature at Brandeis University. For the 1999/2000 academic year he will be Postdoctoral Fellow at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. He has published essays in Research in African Literatures, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Law Text Culture, and the Journal of Southern African Studies. His current projects include Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid, and Ambiguities of Witnessing, a study of literature, testimony, and truth commissions. Donald F. Theall Donald F. Theall (B.A. Yale 1950, Ph.D Toronto 1954) began his career as a Teaching Fellow in English at the University of Toronto, eventually becoming a full Professor and Chair of the Joint Departments of English (1950-64). He then was named Molson Professor and Chair of English (1966-73), and later Director of the Graduate Programme in Comunications (1975-79) at McGill University. In 1980 he became President and Vice-Chancellor of Trent University (1980-87), where he is now University Professor Emeritus. Recent publications include Beyond the Word: Reconstructing Sense in the Joyce Era of Technology, Culture, and Communication (U of Toronto 1995) and James Joyce's Techno-Poetics (U of Toronto 1997). Currently he is completing The Virtual McLuhan: Poetry, Piety, Prophecy and Technology. He has written many essays on literary theory, modernist and postmodernist writing, art, science fiction, culture and technology, cyberculture, and the history and theory of communications, particularly "Beyond the Orality/Literary Dichotomy: James Joyce and the Pre-History of Cyberspace," Postmodern Culture 2.3 (May 1992). Krzysztof Ziarek Krzysztof Ziarek is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Inflected Language: Toward a Hermeneutics of Nearness: Heidegger, Levinas, Stevens, Celan (SUNY Press, 1994) and co-editor of Future Crossings: Literature Between Philosophy and Cultural Studies (forthcoming from Northwestern UP in 2000). He has published essays on 20th century poetry (Stein, Coolidge, Stevens) and philosophy (Heidegger, Foucault, Levinas, Benjamin). ----------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE ARE AVAILABLE FREE OF CHARGE UNTIL RELEASE OF THE NEXT ISSUE. 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