Contributors
- Contributors
Pheng Cheah is professor in the Department of Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley. He is the coeditor of Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation (1998) and Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson (2003). He is currently working on a book on world literature in the era of financial globalization and another book on the concept of instrumentality.
Binh Danh was born in a fishing town in southern Vietnam in 1977, two years after the close of the war. In 1979, he and his family escaped the country on a boat and were placed in a refugee camp in Malaysia. Eventually, the Danh family immigrated to the United States and settled in San Jose, California. In addition to being exhibited nationally, his work is in the public collections of the DeYoung Museum, Corcoran Art Gallery, the Harry Ransom Center, Oakland Museum of California, and the William Benton Museum of Art. Binh received his BFA in photography from San Jose State University and his MFA in studio art from Stanford University. He teaches photography.
Brian Hammer received his PhD in human geography from the University of Washington. He currently serves as director for the Alliance for Global Education's Program in Contemporary Society and Language at Fudan University. [End Page 259]
Born in 1966 in Burma's northern Irrawaddy Delta, Htein Lin is a former political prisoner whose painting depicts incarceration in Myanmar. Htein Lin joined political resistance in his early twenties at Rangoon University. This led him to join in armed resistance, guerrilla actions, flight out of Burma, fractional student political violence, and after betrayals of various kinds eventually repatriation back to Burmese authority. In later years he was jailed again, and for several years he continued his practice of performance art and figurative drawing for fellow prisoners. Htein Lin works in London now and sees himself as an artist, not a political activist.
Marilyn Ivy teaches anthropology at Columbia University. She has written most recently on the photography of Naitô Masatoshi and on the prewar precedents and current implications of "total war" in contemporary Japan.
Ranjana Khanna is the Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies at Duke University and professor in the Department of English, the Literature Program, and the Women's Studies Program. Her Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation 1830 to the Present was published in 2007.
Thomas Lamarre teaches in the Department of East Asian Studies and the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. He is the author of Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun'ichirô on Cinema and Oriental Aesthetics (2005).
An-My Lê was born in Saigon in 1960 and came to the United States as a political refugee in 1975. In 1993 she completed an MFA in photography at Yale University. Her work is in the collections of major museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Dallas Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Yale University Art Gallery; and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Since 2006 a traveling solo exhibition, Small Wars: Photographs by An-My Lê, has been presented at RISD Museum, Providence; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; the National Media Museum, Bradford, U.K.; and the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, and will travel in 2008 to SF MoMA, San Francisco; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Johnson Museum, Cornell University. Her recent series Trap Rock is on view at Dia Beacon through September 2008.
Boreth Ly is a writer, intellectual, and assistant professor of Asian art and visual culture in the Department of Art and Art History, University of Utah. He was born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and was educated in Paris and the United States. Ly is currently writing a collected volume of essays titled Mekong and Memory. This interdisciplinary book addresses the issues of trauma and memory in the post –Vietnam War period as it is made manifest in the contemporary arts of Southeast Asia and its diaspora. [End Page 260]
Rosalind C. Morris is professor of anthropology and associate director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. She is...
