Biographies
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Gideon Baker is an Associate Professor in the School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. His Nihilism and Philosophy: Nothingness, Truth and World, was published earlier this year. Gideon’s email address is g.baker@griffith.edu.au
Adom Getachew is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. She can be reached at agetachew@uchicago.edu
Eric Herhuth is Assistant Professor of Communication at Tulane University. His research areas include animation and film studies, aesthetics and politics, media and film theory, and modernity and globalization. He has published in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Cinema Journal, and animation: an interdisciplinary journal, and he is the author of Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination: Animation, Storytelling, and Digital Culture (University of California Press, 2017). Eric’s email address is eherhuth@tulane.edu
Leigh Claire La Berge is assistant professor of English at the City University of New York. She is the author of Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s (Oxford, 2014) and the co-editor of Reading Capitalist Realism (Iowa, 2014). Her essay, co-authored with Quinn Slobodian, “Reading for Neoliberalism, Reading Like Neoliberals,” was published last year in American Literary History. Her new book, Wages Against Artwork: Socially Engaged Art and the Decommodification of Labor is forthcoming from Duke University Press. Leigh’s email address is llaberge@bmcc.cuny.edu
Diego Fernández Peychaux is an Associate Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (Argentina) and a Political Theory professor at the University of Buenos Aires and the National University of José C. Paz. His main research interests are the studies of political philosophy of the early Western modernities. He is the author of The Resistance, Forms of Freedom in John Locke (2015) and he has compiled Hobbes, the Heretic: Theology, Politics and Materialism. Diego can be reached at dfernandezpeychaux@gmail.com
Smita A. Rahman is Frank L. Hall Professor of Political Science at DePauw University where she teaches courses in Modern, Contemporary, and Comparative Political Thought. She is the author of Time, Memory, and the Politics of Contingency (Routledge, 2014) and her articles and reviews have appeared in Contemporary Political Theory and Theory & Event, among others. She is currently working on a book project on the politics of honor in contemporary political culture. Smita can be reached at smitarahman@depauw.edu
Frances Restuccia is an English Professor at Boston College and teaches contemporary theory, the modern British/European novel, and the world novel. She published James Joyce and the Law of the Father (Yale UP, 1989); Melancholics in Love (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000); Amorous Acts: Lacanian Ethics in Modernism, Film, and Queer Theory (Stanford UP, 2006); and The Blue Box: Kristevan/Lacanian Readings of Contemporary Film (Continuum, 2012). Her book-in-progress focuses on Agamben’s ontology of nudity through interpenetrations of his philosophy and modern literature. Frances can be reached at restuccia@rcn.com
George Shulman teaches political theory at the Gallatin School of New York University. His current book project is entitled, “Postmortem Effects: Impasse and Genre in American Politics and Literature.” George’s email address is gms1@nyu.edu
Sharon Stanley is Professor of Political Science at the University of Memphis. She is the author of two books: The French Enlightenment and the Emergence of Modern Cynicism (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and An Impossible Dream? Racial Integration in the United States (Oxford University Press, 2017). Her current research project, from which this essay is drawn, examines ideologies that obfuscate racism throughout the Americas, with emphasis on the juxtaposition of the United States and Brazil. She can be reached at sastanly@memphis.edu; her faculty website is at http://www.memphis.edu/polisci/people/faculty_and_staff/sharon-stanley.php
Nathaniel Stern is an Associate Professor of Art and Design / Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and a Research Associate in the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre, University of Johannesburg. He is an internationally exhibited and award-winning artist, and author of Interactive Art and Embodiment: the implicit body as performance (Gylphi, 2013) and Ecological Aesthetics: artful tactics for humans, nature, and politics (Dartmouth 2018). His website is http...
