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  • Contributors

Ross Benjamin is a writer and German language translator living in Brooklyn, New York. His work has appeared in Bookforum, The Nation, Metamorphoses: A Journal of Literary Translation and other publications. He was a 2003–2004 Fulbright Scholar in Berlin and a 2005 Woolrich Writing Fellow at Columbia University. Presently he is working on translations of Siegfried Kracauer, Stefan Zweig and Hermann Cohen.

Michael Bérubé is the Paterno Family Professor in Literature at Penn State University. His most recent books are What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and “Bias” in Higher Education (Norton, 2006) and Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities (U North Carolina, 2006).

Heesok Chang is Associate Professor of English and Media Studies at Vassar College. He has recently written on Richard Aldington and Ezra Pound, and has a book forthcoming on literary modernism in the Blackwell Guide to Literature series. He is currently writing about Asian-Canadian experimental film and video.

Amy Cook is a Mellon post-doc at Emory University. She defended her dissertation, “Shakespeare, the Illusion of Depth, and the Science of Parts: An Integration of Cognitive Science and Performance Studies,” at the University of California, San Diego, in July.

Samuel Frederick is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of German Studies at Cornell University. He is currently writing a dissertation on the narrativity of digression and description in Adalbert Stifter, Robert Walser, and Thomas Bernhard. His preoccupation with questions of narrative is tempered by his interest in lyric poetry and film.

Peter Gizzi is the author of Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan, 2003), Artificial Heart (Burning Deck, 1998), and Periplum and Other Poems 1987–1992 (Salt Publishing, 2004). His editing projects have included o•blék: a journal of language arts (The Garlic Press, 1987–93), The Exact Change Yearbook (Carcanet, 1995), and The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan, 1998). He teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

André Habib is completing a doctoral thesis on “Le temps décomposé: l'imaginaire des ruines au cinéma” at l'Université de Montréal, where he teaches film. He is the editorial coordinator of the journal Intermédialités, and co-editor of the web Journal Hors champ. He is co-editing a book with Viva Paci: “L'imprimerie du regard. Chris Marker et la technique” (forthcoming, 2007).

Paul Harris, a co-editor of SubStance, is Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University and President of the International Society for the Study of Time.

Gray Kochhar-Lindgren is a faculty member in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell. He is the author of Narcissus Transformed: The Textual Subject in Psychoanalysis (Penn State UP, 1993), Starting Time: A True Account of Creation, Sex, Death and Golf (White Cloud, 1995), and Techno Logics: Ghosts, the Incalculable, and the Suspension of Animation (SUNY, 2005). He is currently working on a book on the night life of Maurice Blanchot.

Daniel Listoe teaches in the Departments of English and Hebrew Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Translating Catastrophe: The Aesthetics of History and Modern Literature.”

Clark Lunberry, Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Florida, has written widely on the interrelations of the arts and literature, with recent publications in Critical Inquiry, Discourse and Mosaic. He recently completed a book manuscript on modern and contemporary representations of silence and absence. A book of his poetry and photography, Stone Poems, was published by Kalligram Press, Bratislava.

Nilima Rabl is Managing Editor of the journal Crossings and a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Previously, she earned her Magistra der Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaft in Linguistics, English Literature, and Combined Degrees of Media at Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria.

Dimitris Vardoulakis teaches at the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University. He has co-edited a volume of the journal Angelaki on “The Politics of Place” (with Andrew Benjamin, 2004) and a collection of essays, After Blanchot: Literature, Criticism, Philosophy (with Leslie Hill and Brian Nelson, 2005). He has published...

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