Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Rita Barnard
Rita Barnard is Associate Professor of English and Acting Chair of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance and is completing a book on South African literature for Oxford University Press.
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Kelly Cresap
Kelly Cresap is a writer, scholar, artist, and activist from Portland, Oregon. He earned his English doctorate at the University of Virginia; his dissertation examines Andy Warhol’s naif-trickster persona and its influence on postmodern culture. His essay “Bisexuals, Cyborgs, and Chaos” appeared in the May 1996 issue of Postmodern Culture. His cartoons, satire, cultural commentary, and film and theater criticism have appeared in The Japan Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Seattle’s Weekly, and Seattle Gay News.
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Arkadii Dragomoschenko
Arkadii Dragomoshchenko was born in Potsdam, Germany in 1946. He grew up in Ukraine and has for many years lived in St. Petersburg, where he is currently one of the most prominent literary and cultural figures. He is the author of five books of poetry and prose, two of them translated into English by Lyn Hejinian and Elena Balashova. He is the founding editor of the journal Kommentarii and a regular contributor to a host of other literary projects. In recent years he has hosted weekly TV and radio shows and collaborated with the modern dance troupe Iguana. He has taught as a visiting lecturer at a number of US and European universities. He participated in PMC’s 1993 Symposium on Russian Postmodernism.
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Robert Elliot Fox
Robert Elliot Fox is a professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, specializing in 20th-Century American, African American, and post-colonial literatures. He is the author of Conscientious Sorcerer (1987) and Masters of the Drum (1995).
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Benjamin Friedlander
Benjamin Friedlander is a doctoral candidate at SUNY-Buffalo completing a dissertation on Emily Dickinson and the Civil War. With Donald Allen he co-edited The Collected Prose of Charles Olson, published by the University of California Press in 1997. His books of poetry include the forthcoming Algebraic Melody (Zasterle Press) and Selected Poems (Meow Press).
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Bishnupriya Ghosh
Bishnupriya Ghosh completed her Ph.D. from Northwestern University, Chicago, in 1993; she then joined the English Department at Utah State University where she teaches postcolonial literature and theory, cultural studies, and film, and functions as the Vice-chair of the Women’s Studies program. She has published several essays on Indian writing in English, Indian film, and the South Asian diaspora; her most recent work comprises an anthology that she edited and introduced, Interventions: Feminist Dialogues on Third World Women’s Literature and Film (New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1997). She is currently working on a manuscript on postmodernity and the Indian novel in English.
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James S. Hurley
James S. Hurley received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1997 and is now an Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at the University of Richmond. He is currently writing a book on the “post-political” economy of contemporary American film.
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Todd M. Kuchta
Todd M. Kuchta is a graduate student in English and Cultural Studies at Indiana University, focusing on British modernism, imperialism, and postcolonialism. He has published in Studies in the Humanities, and has essays forthcoming in collections on Salman Rushdie and E.M. Forster.
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Kevin McGuirk
Kevin McGuirk teaches American Literature and Contemporary Poetry at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. He has published numerous articles on contemporary poery and culture, most recently in Cultural Critique and in New Definiti ons of Lyric: Literature, Culture, Technology, edited by Mark Jeffreys (1998). He is working on a book called Outside Poetry.
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Alec McHoul
Alec Mchoul is Head of the School of Media Communication & Culture at Murdoch University, Western Australia. He is currently working on a series of articles on Heidegger, technology, and culture and on a book called Culture and Representation, as well as a translation of Jean-Marie Floch’s Identités Visuelles.
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