Notes on Contributors

TIMOTHY BRENNAN is professor of cultural studies, comparative literature, and English at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation (1989), At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now (1997), and has edited and introduced Alejo Carpentier's Music in Cuba (2001).

NICHOLAS BROWN is assistant professor of English and African American studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His forthcoming book reconsiders the narrative of globalization through the relationship between European modernism and African literature.

SIMON GIKANDI is the Robert Hayden Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His most recent books include Maps of Englishness and Ngugi wa Thiong'o.

SNEJA GUNEW has taught at various universities in England, Australia, and Canada. She has published widely on multicultural, postcolonial, and feminist critical theory and is currently professor of English and women's studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her book Postcolonial Multiculturalisms: Bodies, Communities, Nations is forthcoming.

PETER HITCHCOCK is professor of literacy and cultural studies at the Graduate Center and Baruch College of the City University of New York, and associate director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. His books include Dialogics of the Oppressed (1993), Oscillate Wildly (1999), and the forthcoming Imaginary States (2002).

CAREN IRR is assistant professor of English and American literature at Brandeis University. She is the author of The Suburb of Dissent: Cultural Politics in the United States and Canada during the 1930s (1998); she has also coedited with Jeffrey T. Nealon Rethinking the Frankfurt School: Alternative Legacies of Cultural Critique (2002). Her current work addresses issues of gender and intellectual property in the global economy.

ROSEMARY JANE JOLLY is associate professor of English at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada; she is also a faculty member of the Southern African Research Centre at Queen's. She has published essays primarily on South African literature and postcolonial theory, with a focus on representation and violence. She is author of Colonization, Violence and Narration (1996) and coeditor with Derek Attridge of Writing South Africa (1998). She is currently working on a manuscript on South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and related narratives.

SUSIE O'BRIEN is an assistant professor at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. Her publications include articles on postcolonialism and ecocriticism in Modern Fiction Studies, ARIEL, and Mosaic (forthcoming). She is currently working on a book titled Imagined Diversities: Postcolonialism, Ecology and Globalization.

PAUL SHARRAD is associate professor in English studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He teaches postcolonial literatures with special interests in India and the Pacific. Published work includes Raja Rao and Cultural Tradition, Readings in Pacific Literature, and the editing of new literatures review. Most recently he was advisory editor for the literature section of The Pacific Islands: An Encyclopedia.

IMRE SZEMAN is assistant professor of English and Cultural studies and associate director of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. He is author of Zones of Instability: Postcolonialism, Literature and the Nation (2002) and is coediting the second edition of the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism.