Contributors
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Guest Editor Simone Drichel is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English & Linguistics at the University of Otago. She has published on Margaret Atwood, J. M. Coetzee, Janet Frame and Emmanuel Levinas, and is the co-editor (with Jan Cronin) of Frameworks: Contemporary Criticism on Janet Frame. She was the recipient of a Fast-Start Marsden Grant (Royal Society of New Zealand) for a project on postcolonialism and ethics; her contributions to this special issue come from research funded by the Royal Society. Her larger research project carries the working title “Defending Vulnerability” and analyzes literary engagements with settler postcolonial narcissism.
Sonja Boon is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She has research interests in life writing, corporeal feminisms, and women’s history. Her monograph, The Life of Madame Necker: Sin, Redemption and the Parisian Salon appeared in 2011. The recipient of numerous grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, she is currently working on a book-length study of the relationships between life writing, citizenship and the body in 18th-century medical letters.
Rosalyn Diprose is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her book publications include Corporeal Generosity: On Giving with Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas (SUNY 2002) and, as co-editor, Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts (Continuum 2008). Her current research examines the phenomenology and biopolitics of birth, death, and risk.
Joanne Faulkner is an Australian Research Council DECRA fellow in philosophy at the School of Humanities and Languages, University of New South Wales. The present article comes from research funded by the ARC. Her research project investigates the political ontology of childhood, and particularly the role of childhood in articulating social identity in emerging political communities.
Fiona Jenkins is Convenor of the Gender Institute and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophy, RSSS, at the Australian National University. Her most recent publications include the co-edited volumes: Women in Philosophy: What Needs to Change? (OUP 2013); Allegiance and Identity in a Globalising World (forthcoming, CUP 2014); and Limits of the Human, Angelaki, (16:4, Dec. 2011). [End Page 205]
Laurence Simmons is Head of the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies at The University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is the co-editor of Derrida Downunder (2001), Baudrillard West of the Dateline (2003) and From Z to A: Zizek at the Antipodes (2005). He has published a book on Freud’s papers on art and aesthetics and his relationship with Italy entitled Freud’s Italian Journey (2006). His latest book, Tuhituhi (2011), is on the painter William Hodges who journeyed with Captain James Cook on his second voyage to the South Pacific.
Rebecca Stringer is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Otago. She is the author of Knowing Victims: Feminism and Victim Politics in Neoliberal Times (London: Routledge, 2014) and, with Hilary Radner, is co-editor of Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema (New York: Routledge, 2011).
Ewa Plonowska Ziarek is Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature and Founding Director of the Humanities Institute at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is the author of Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism (Columbia 2012); An Ethics of Dissensus: Feminism, Postmodernity, and the Politics of Radical Democracy (Stanford 2001); and The Rhetoric of Failure: Deconstruction of Skepticism, Reinvention of Modernism (SUNY 1995). She is the editor of Gombrowicz’s Grimaces: Modernism, Gender, Nationality, (SUNY 1998); and the co-editor of Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva’s Polis (SUNY 2005), Time for the Humanities: Praxis and the Limits of Autonomy (Fordham 2008), and of Intermedialities: Philosophy, Art, Politics (Rowman & Littlefield 2010). She has published articles on Kristeva, Irigaray, Derrida, Agamben, Foucault, Levinas, Fanon, feminist theory and literary modernism.
Krzysztof Ziarek is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of Inflected Language: Toward a Hermeneutics of Nearness (SUNY), The Historicity of Experience: Modernity, the Avant-Garde, and the Event (Northwestern), The Force of Art (Stanford), and Language After Heidegger (Indiana). He has published essays on Clark Coolidge, Susan Howe...
