Contributors
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Lynn Keller is currently the Martha Meier Renk Bascom Professor of Poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her books include Re-making It New: Contemporary American Poetry and the Modernist Tradition (Cambridge, 1987), Forms of Expansion: Recent Long Poems by Women (Chicago, 1997), and Feminist Measures: Soundings in Poetry and Theory (Michigan, 1994), co-edited with Cristanne Miller. She is co-editor, with Alan Golding and Adalaide Morris, of the University of Wisconsin Press series on North American poetry. Her new project is a book on recent experimental poetry by American women.
Mark B. N. Hansen, associate professor of English at Princeton University, is the author of Embodying Technesis: Technology beyond Writing (Michigan, 2000), New Philosophy for New Media (MIT, 2004), and Bodies in Code: Interfaces with New Media, forthcoming in 2005 (Routledge). He served as co-editor, with Taylor Carman, of The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty (2004). He is working on a book manuscript titled "Fiction after Television, or Toward an Aesthetics of Affective Response," in addition to co-editing, with W. J. T. Mitchell, a volume on critical terms for media studies.
Susan E. Hawkins, associate professor of English at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, has published articles on the American prose poem, the fiction of Christine Brooke-Rose, Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, and Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses. Her work in progress considers mourning and the maternal in Kathy Acker's late fiction and Cormac McCarthy's cold war cowboys in The Border Trilogy.
Elizabeth Klaver is professor of English at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She is the author of Performing Television: Contemporary Drama and the Media Culture (Wisconsin, 2000) and editor of Images of the Corpse: From the Renaissance to Cyberspace (Wisconsin, 2004). She has published articles on postmodernist drama, autopsy, Samuel Beckett, and David Mamet. Her book Sites of Autopsy in Contemporary Culture is forthcoming in 2005 (SUNY).
John J. Su, assistant professor of English at Marquette University, has published articles on contemporary Anglophone literature and is finishing a book manuscript, to be published by Cambridge University Press, on ethics and nostalgia in the contemporary novel.
H. Porter Abbott is professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books include The Fiction of Samuel Beckett: Form and Effect (California, 1973), Diary Fiction: Writing as Action (Cornell, 1984), Beckett Writing Beckett: The Author in the Autograph (Cornell, 1996), The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative (2002), and an edited collection, On the Origin of Fictions: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Wisconsin, 2001). He is currently working on the subject of Darwinian conversions.
Patrick Deer, assistant professor of English at New York University, is completing a book manuscript titled "Culture in Camouflage: War, Empire, and Modern British Literature." His published articles are on the film adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, Edward Said, myths of British Anti Americanism, and the New York media landscape and urban space after September 11.
Alan Nadel, professor of literature and film at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has published numerous essays and reviews on American literature, media, and culture. His most recent books are Containment Culture: American Narrative, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age (Duke, 1995) and Flatlining on the Field of Dreams: Cultural Narratives in the Films of President Reagan's America (Rutgers, 1997).
Matt Theado is associate professor of English at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. He has published articles on William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, and John D. MacDonald; a book, Understanding Jack Kerouac (South Carolina, 2000); and an edited collection, The Beats: A Literary Reference (Carroll & Graf, 2003).
