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  • Notes on Contributors

Moneera Al-Ghadeer is an Associate Professor in the Department of African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently, Professor Al-Ghadeer is finishing her second book, The Anxiety of the Foreign.

Tom Conley is Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. Among his books are Cartographic Cinema (2006), The Self-Made Map (1997), and Film Hieroglyphs (1991), as well as translations of The Sovereign Map (2006) by Christian Jacob, In the Metro (2002) by Marc Augé, The Year of Passages (1995) by Réda Bensmaïa, and The Fold (1993) by Gilles Deleuze,.

Scott DeShong is Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Quinebaug Valley Community College. His book in progress interrogates the naturalization of ability, engaging race, ethics, improvisation, artistic production, and other topics.

Babak Elahi is Associate Professor English at Rochester Institute of Technology. His work has appeared in College Literature, Iranian Studies, JAC, and American Behavioral Scientist. He would like to thank Janet Zandy for reading an earlier draft of this essay.

Horace L. Fairlamb is Professor of Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Houston-Victoria. His main areas of interest are philosophy and literature.

Camilla Fojas is Associate Professor and Director of Latin American and Latino Studies at DePaul University. Her new book, Border Bandits: Hollywood on the Southern Frontier, is forthcoming from the University of Texas Press, and she is co-editing, with Mary Beltrán, Mixed Race Hollywood , forthcoming from NYU Press.

Irving Goh is currently reading contemporary French thought at the University of Cambridge. He was previously Visiting Fellow at Harvard University and Research Fellow and Research Scholar at the National University of Singapore. He has published with Cultural Politics; Theory, Culture & Society; Fast Capitalism; CTheory; and Jordan Crandall's Under Fire 2.

Dinda L Gorlée is a semiotician and translation theoretician living in The Hague (the Netherlands). Gorlée is widely published: Semiotics and the Problems of Translation: With Special Reference to the Semiotics of Charles S. Peirce (1994), On Translating Signs: Exploring Text and Semio-Translation (2004), Song and Significance: Virtues and Vices of Vocal Translation (2005), and a special issue of Semiotica called "Vital Signs of Semio-Translation" (2007).

Steven Helmling is Professor of English at the University of Delaware. He is completing a book called T. W. Adorno and the Poetics of Critique.

Darren Jorgensen is a lecturer in art history at the University of Western Australia. His recently awarded Ph.D. thesis was a history of science fiction and the sublime.

Paul McEwan is Assistant Professor of Media & Communication and Associate Director of Film Studies at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. His writing has appeared in Cinema Journal, the International Journal of Cultural Studies, and is forthcoming in Film History.

Todd McGowan teaches at the University of Vermont. He is the author of The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan (2007) and The Impossible David Lynch (2007), among other books.

Tobais Menely is an Assistant Professor of English at Willamette University. He is currently completing a book, Sympathy's Kingdom: Sentimental Culture and the Birth of Animal Rights.

J. Hillis Miller is Research Professor, University of California, Irvine. His latest book is Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James. He is finishing books about communities in literature and about Jacques Derrida.

Claudia Barbosa Nogueira is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tulsa. She is currently working on a book of fiction and is researching national representations in road movies of the Americas.

Sharon O'Dair holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and is professor of English at the University of Alabama and Director of the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies.

R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature and Director of Film Studies at Clemson University. Palmer is the author, editor, or general editor of more than thirty-five books on various literary and cinematic subjects. Most recently, he is the author of Joel and Ethan Coen (2004), Hollywood's Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir (second revised edition, forthcoming), and (with...

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