Contributors
- Contributors
Dušan I. Bjelić is professor of criminology at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. He is coeditor with Obrad Savić of Balkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and Fragmentation (2002) and is author of Galileo's Pendulum: Science, Sexuality, and the Body-Instrument Link (2003).
Sarika Chandra works in the areas of American and globalization studies. She teaches English at Wayne State University.
Kanishka Chowdhury is associate professor of English at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul. He has written widely on globalization, postcolonial theory, and South Asian public culture. His most recent writings appear in Science & Society and Postcolonialism and Education.
Neil Larsen teaches critical theory, comparative literature, and Latin American studies at the University of California, Davis. His most recent book is Determinations (2001).
Klaus J. Milich is visiting professor of American literary and cultural studies at Dartmouth College. He is author of Die frühe Postmoderne: Geschichte eines europäisch-amerikanischen Kulturkonflikts (1998) and coeditor of Multiculturalism in Transit: A German-American Exchange (1998), American Studies in Germany: European Contexts and Intercultural Relations (1995), and Lektüre der fremden Zeichen (1993). He is working on a book tentatively titled The Return of the Sacred: Religion in American Literature and Culture and a second book on race, gender, and American civilization in the age of realism, which examines the intersections among and mutual constructions of the four terms.
Petra Rethmann is associate professor of anthropology at McMaster University. She is author of Tundra Passages: History and Gender in the Russian Far East and has published on issues of history, historiography, radical political culture, and their associated imaginations. She is coediting a book on the theme of vision and culture and working on a book project titled Specters of Terror: The Afterlife of the RAF. [End Page 115]
Nick Robinette is pursuing a doctorate in the department of English at the University of Minnesota. His research is concerned with the avant-garde in African novels and drama.
Urmila Seshagiri is assistant professor of English at the University of Tennessee. She specializes in British modernism and postcolonial studies. Her work has appeared in Modern Fiction Studies and the Journal of Asian American Studies, and she is completing a book manuscript about race, modernity, and the origins of British modernism.
Jennifer Wenzel is assistant professor in the department of English at the University of Michigan. She is working on a book-length project titled Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Millenarian Movements, which examines anti-imperialist nostalgia and other modes of retrospection. [End Page 116]
