Contributors
- Contributors
Vincenzo Binetti and Santiago Colás teach, respectively, Italian Literature and Cultural Studies and Latin American and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Binetti is the author of Cesare Pavese: Una vita imperfetta (Longo, 1998) and the forthcoming volume Citta nomadi, autonomia e esodo nella metropoli contemporanea (Ombre Corte, 2008). He also has translated (with Cesare Casarino) Means without Ends. Notes on Politics by Giorgio Agamben (University of Minnesota, 2000) and (with Andrea Terradura) Fugitive Days: memorie dai Weather Underground by Bill Ayers (Cox Edizioni, 2007). Colás is the author of Postmodernity in Latin America: The Argentine Paradigm (Duke, 1994) and of articles in such journals as New Centennial Review, Discourse, and Angelaki. He is currently completing two books dealing with the ethics of creativity and of reading, respectively: Living Invention, or, Julio Cortazar Unmoored and The Book of Joys: Towards an Ethics of Immanent Reading.
Sarah Jane Cervenak is currently a postdoctoral teaching fellow in Stanford University's Introduction to Humanities Program. In 2005, she received her PhD in Performance Studies from New York University. Cervenak's research emerges out of her interest in texts from a variety of disciplines; African American studies; performance studies; feminist studies; philosophy. She has taught in theater studies, ethnic studies, women's studies, and general humanities programs at New York University, University of California, Berkeley, Rutgers University, and Stanford University.
Kenneth Chan is an assistant professor with the Division of English at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His essays have appeared in Cinema Journal, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, and Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. His forthcoming book, tentatively titled Remade in Hollywood: The New Global Chinese Presence in Post-1997 American Cinema, will be published by Hong Kong University Press. [End Page 233]
Arne De Boever is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University in New York. He studied at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and at the Universität Leipzig (Germany) and holds an MA and MPhil from Columbia. He has published articles on Durs Grünbein, W. G. Sebald, and Giorgio Agamben. His dissertation is a study of the contemporary novel and the state of exception.
Hyung-Sook Lee is a full-time lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at Ewha Woman's University in South Korea. She received her PhD in the Division of Critical Studies, the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. Her dissertation chapters have been published in anthologies on East Asian cinema, and she is the volume editor of Spectator: The University of Southern California Journal of Film and Television Criticism, Vol. 27, No. 2, on the topic of media co-productions.
Alec McHoul recently retired as professor in the School of Media Communication & Culture at Murdoch University, though no one ever told him what he was professor of. Having published widely in the interdisciplinary field of sociology and language studies, he is now dedicated to growing Australian native plants on his semirural property and birdwatching. For more details, go to: http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/~mchoul/
D. Cuong O'Neill is an assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley. He completed his PhD from Yale University in Japanese Literature in 2002. He teaches courses in modern Japanese literature and aesthetics, postwar intellectual history, and popular culture. His research interests include the novel in comparative perspective, critical theory, and sexuality studies. He has published essays on modern Japanese literature, literary criticism, translation, and gender theory.
Christopher Peterson is a Lecturer in the Writing Programs at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Kindred Specters: Death, Mourning, and American Affinity (Minnesota 2007), and has published articles in Modern Fiction Studies, Cultural Values, The New Centennial Review, and Qui Parle.
Michele Pierson is Lecturer in Film Studies at King's College London. Her publications include Special Effects: Still in Search of Wonder (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), and essays on [End Page 234] amateur and experimental film. She is currently working on a book entitled The Accessibility of the Avant-garde.
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