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  • Contributors

Tina Barr is assistant professor of English at Rhodes College in Memphis, where she directs the creative writing program. Her poems have most recently appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Brilliant Corners, Chelsea, Harvard Review, Louisiana Literature, Southern Review, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. She was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony in June 1999 and 2000, where she worked on a series of poems about Cairo.

Seamus Deane is Keough Professor of Irish studies at the University of Notre Dame. His most recent publications include Reading in the Dark (1996), a novel, and Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Ireland Since 1790. He is currently writing a second novel and a book on modern Ireland.

Enrique Dussel is professor of ethics in the Department of Philosophy at UAM-Iztapalapa and the UNAM in Mexico. He is one of the founding members of the philosophy of liberation and author of many essays and books, including The Invention of the Americas: Eclipse of "the Other" and the Myth of Modernity (1995), The Underside of Modernity (1996), and the most recent Ética de la liberación en la edad de la globalización y de la exclusión (1998).

Stuart Elden is a lecturer in politics at the University of Warwick, England. He is author of Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault, and the Project of a Spatial History (2001) and coeditor and translator (with Eleonore Kofman and Elizabeth Lebas) of Lefebvre: Key Writings (forthcoming). He is currently working on a project entitled The Geometry of the Political.

John Eperjesi recently completed his Ph.D. in the Literary and Cultural Theory Program in the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow in that program while finishing his book, The Imperialist Imaginary: Culture, Capital, and the Formation of the American Pacific.

Eli Friedlander is assistant professor of philosophy at Tel-Aviv University. He is author of Signs of Sense: Reading Wittgenstein's Tractatus (2000). He has also pubished [End Page 237] work on Kant's Critique of Judgment, Rousseau, and the history of analytic philosophy. He is currently at work on a book on autobiography and philosophy in Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker.

Fernando Gomez is assistant professor of transatlantic literature at Stanford University. Specializing in early modern studies in Latin America and the Iberian peninsula, he is author of Good Places and Non-Places in Colonial Mexico: The Figure of Vasco de Quiroga (2000). He is currently working on a collection of interviews entitled Foreign Sensibilities and a book project entitled Agonies of Historicity.

Susan Koshy is an assistant professor in the Asian American Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her articles on whiteness, racial formation, ethnicity, neocolonialism, and globalization have appeared in the Yale Journal of Criticism, Social Text, Differences, Diaspora, and in several anthologies. She is currently working on a book on Asian American representation.

Michelle Speidel has a Ph.D. in philosophy and an M.A. in continental philosophy from the University of Warwick, and completed her B.A. in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She is coeditor of Pli—The Warwick Journal of Philosophy. Her research interests are in the areas of philosophy of biology, specifically symbiosis, bacterial evolution, and post-Darwinian approaches to evolution.

Rob Wilson is professor of transnational/postcolonial literatures at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is author of Reimagining the American Pacific (2000) and American Sublime (1991), and coeditor of various collections of cultural criticism, including Inside Out (1999) and Asia/Pacific as Space of Cultural Production (1995). [End Page 238]

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