Contributors
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Rey Chow is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University and the author of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (2002). Her publications in English in the areas of literature, film, critical theory, and cultural politics have been translated into a number of Asian and European languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish, and German.
Claire Colebrook teaches English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of New Literary Histories (1997), Ethics and Representation (1999), Gilles Deleuze (2002), Understanding Deleuze (2002), and Irony in the Work of Philosophy (2003).
John Frow is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Marxism and Literary History (1986), Cultural Studies and Cultural Value (1995), Time and Commodity Culture (1997), and (with Tony Bennett and Michael Emmison) Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures (1999). He is currently working on a book on genre and on another on the moral economies of everyday life.
Jane M. Gaines is Professor of Literature and English at Duke University where she directs the Program in Film/Video/Digital. She is the author of Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law (1991) and Fire and Desire: Mixed Race Movies in the Silent Era (2001) and is completing Fictioning Histories: Women Film Pioneers.
Toril Moi is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University. She is the author of What Is a Woman? And Other Essays (1999), Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman (1994), and Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory (1985; 2002), and the editor of The Kristeva Reader (1986) and French Feminist Thought (1987). She is currently working on a book on Henrik Ibsen.
Mark Poster is Director of the Film Studies Program at the University of California, Irvine, and a member of the History Department. He has a courtesy appointment in the Department of Information and Computer Science. He is a member of the Critical Theory Institute. His recent books are The Mode of Information (1990), The Second Media Age (1995), Cultural History and Postmodernity (1997), The Information Subject (2001), and What’s the Matter with the Internet: A Critical Theory of Cyberspace (2001).
Nancy Ries is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colgate University. She has done many years of fieldwork in Russia and is the author of Russian Talk: Culture and Conversation during Perestroika (1997). She is co-editor of the Cornell Press series “Culture and Society after Socialism.”
Roger Silverstone is Professor of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His most recent book-length publications are Television and Everyday Life (1994) and Why Study the Media? (1999). He is currently working on a new book entitled Screen Deep: Media, Ethics, and Everyday Life.
Dell Upton is David A. Harrison III Professor of Architectural History and Historical Archaeology at the University of Virginia. His publications include Architecture in the United States (1998) and Madaline: Love and Survival in Antebellum New Orleans (1996). He is currently completing a book on selfhood and perception in antebellum American cities.
