Notes on Contributors

Daniel W. Conway is Professor of Philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University. He is author of Nietzsche and the Political (1997) and Nietzsche's Dangerous Game (1997).

Jeffrey R. Di Leo teaches literary and cultural theory in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is Editor and founder of the journal symploke and is currently working on a manuscript on the relationship between cultural studies and ethics.

Richard M. Doyle teaches English at The Pennsylvania State University.

Elizabeth Grosz teaches in the Comparative Literature Department, State University of New York at Buffalo. She is the editor of Becomings: Explorations in Time, Memory, Futures (1999) and is working on a book on virtual architectures.

Jeff Karnicky is a Ph.D. candidate at The Pennsylvania State University writing a dissertation about postmodern American and British fiction.

Alphonso Lingis is Professor of Philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of many books including Excesses (1983), Deathbound Subjectivity (1989), Abuses (1994), Foreign Bodies (1994) and Sensation (1996).

Dagmar C. G. Lorenz is Professor of German at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has co-edited a number of collections on aspects of German culture including Insiders and Outsiders: Jewish and Gentile Culture in Germany and Austria (1994), Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers (1997), and Transforming the Center, Eroding the Margins: Essays on Ethnic and Cultural Boundaries in German-Speaking Countries (1998).

Carsten Henrik Meiner is doing a Ph.D. at Universiti de Paris VIII on the history of the concept of style with special reference to the works of Marivaux, Kant, Maupassant and Nietzsche.

Christian Moraru is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He specializes in literary theory and contemporary literature, and is currently working on a book on narrative rewriting in postmodern fiction.

Margaret Morse is an Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She is the author of Virtualities: Television, Media Art and Cyberculture (1998), and co-author of Hardware, Software, Artware (1997).

Jeffrey T. Nealon teaches in the English Department at Penn State University. He is author of Double Reading: Postmodernism after Deconstruction (1993) and Alterity Politics: Ethics and Performative Subjectivity (1998).

Theodore M. Norton teaches in the Department of History at Penn State University. He has previously working in Science, Technology, and Society Progams at Penn State and Vassar College, and at Hampshire College.

Charles E. Scott is Professor of Philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of many books including The Language of Difference (1987), The Question of Ethics: Nietzsche, Foucault, Heidegger (1990) and On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Ethics and Politics (1996).

Steven Shaviro is Professor of English at the University of Washington. He is author of The Cinematic Body (1993) and Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction about Postmodernism (1997).

Charles J. Stivale is Professor of French and Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Wayne State University.

Allan Stoekl teaches French and Comparative Literature at Penn State University. He has published widely on pre- and postwar French thought, and is currently completing a book on the death penalty in and as narrative.

Megan Sweeney is a Ph.D. candidate in the Literature Program at Duke University writing a dissertation on the construction of female criminality.

Eve Wiederhold teaches in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago.