Contributors
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Bill Bell is Director of the Centre of the Book at the University of Edinburgh, where he teaches in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, and is presently Visiting Professor at the University of Göttingen. He is editor of The Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society and is general editor of the four-volume The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland (2007–2013).
Jane Bennett is Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University and editor of the journal Political Theory. Her books include The Enchantment of Modern Life (2001) and Vibrant Matter (2010).
Simon During is an Australian Research Professor at the University of Queensland. He has previously taught at the University of Melbourne and Johns Hopkins University. The author of numerous books, including Foucault and Literature (1992), Modern Enchantments (2004), and Exit Capitalism (2010), his most recent book is Against Democracy: Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations (2012).
Nicholas Hengen Fox recently completed his PhD at the University of Minnesota and has work forthcoming in American Literature and Radical Teacher. He is a tenure-track instructor of Composition and Literature at Portland Community College.
Graham Harman is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Provost for Research Administration at the American University in Cairo. He is the author of numerous books, most recently The Quadruple Object (2011) and Quentin Meillassoux: Philosophy in the Making (2011).
Sara Landreth is Assistant Professor of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of Ottawa. Her current book project examines how theories about motion intersected with theories about literary, social, and political change in Enlightenment Britain.
Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair of English at Rice University. He is the author of Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (forthcoming), Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (forthcoming), The Ecological Thought (2010), Ecology without Nature (2007), seven other books and eighty essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, food, and music. He blogs regularly at http://www.ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com. [End Page 391]
Benita Parry is Emerita Professor at the University of Warwick. She has written books and essays on the imperial imaginary, contemporary South African writing and politics, colonial discourse analysis, and postcolonial studies. Her recent essays have been on peripheral modernism, “Countercurrents and Tensions in Said’s Critical Practice” (2010), and “Kipling’s Unloved Race: The Retreat from Modernity” (2010). She is currently participating in a collective project on world literature understood as the literature of global capitalism.
Ato Quayson is Professor of English and inaugural Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. His publications include Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing (1997), Postcolonialism: Theory, Practice or Process? (2000), Calibrations: Reading for the Social (2003), and Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation (2007). He has also edited Relocating Postcolonialism (with David Theo Goldberg, 2002), African Criticism and Theory (with Tejumola Olaniyan, 2007), Fathers and Daughters: An Anthology of Exploration (2008), Labour Migration, Human Trafficking and Multinational Corporations (with Antonela Arhin, 2012), and the two-volume Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature (2012).
Diego Rossello holds a PhD in political science from Northwestern University and is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is currently working on a book manuscript provisionally entitled The Melancholic Sovereign: The Politics of Human-Animal (In)distinction in Modern Sovereignty.
Ella Shohat is Professor of Cultural Studies at New York University. Her books include: Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (1994, with Robert Stam); Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age (1998); Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices (2006); Le sionisme du point de vue de ses victimes juives: Les juifs orientaux en Israel (2006); Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (2010); Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism (2007, with Robert Stam); and Race in Translation: Culture Wars around the Post-colonial Atlantic (2012).
Robert Stam is University Professor at New York University. He is the author or coauthor of more than 15 books, including Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film (1989); Literature through Film: Realism, Magic and the Art of Adaptation (2005); Tropical Multiculturalism: A Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and...
