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Diaspora 2:2 1992 Notes on Contributors Rey Chow was educated in Hong Kong and the United States. She is associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California-Irvine. She holds a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1992-93, and is the author of Woman and Chinese Modernity : The Politics ofReading Between East and West (University ofMinnesota Press, 1991) and ofthe forthcoming Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies (Indiana University Press). John Fletcher is professor of French at the School of Modern Languages and European History in the University of East Anglia. He is the author ofeight books (on the Huguenot-descended Samuel Beckett, on Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon, and aspects of French literature ), the coauthor of six, and the editor oftwo others. His translation of Simon's The Georgics won the Scott Montcrieff Prize in 1990. Stefan Helmreich is a graduate student in anthropology at Stanford University. He is interested in anthropological approaches to understanding scientific practice and plans to undertake ethnographic work among a group ofcomputational theoretical biologists. Indira Karamcheti is assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University. She is the author of essays on (and translations of the work of) Aimé Césaire, and of articles on Anita Desai, Simone Schwartz-Bart, Edward Said, multiculturalism, and postcolonial theory. She is currently at work on Reading Differently: Inventing the Post-colonial Text. Martin Roberts is assistant professor of French studies at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology. He wrote his dissertation at Trinity College, Cambridge, and is rewriting it as a book tentatively titled "Tournier, Bricolage, and Cultural Mythology." John Sorenson received his PhD from York University's Social and Political Thought Programme in 1989. He is a research associate of the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University and also of the Disaster Research Unit at the University ofManitoba. He is the 277 Diaspora 2:2 1992 author ofImagining Ethiopia: Struggles for History and Identity in the Horn ofAfrica (Rutgers) and coeditor ofAfrican Refugees (Westview ), both in press. Currently, he is editing a book on Disaster and Development in the Horn ofAfrica. Carmen Wickramagamage is assistant lecturer of English at the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka and is writing her dissertation on postcolonial literature at the University of Hawaii. She has published articles on Naipaul and Narayan. 278 ...

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