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ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 225 Janet Farrell Brodie is the chair of the Department of History at Claremont Graduate University. She is currently working on a book, entitled Cultures of Secrecy in Early Cold War Los Angeles, about the institutionalization of the national security state. Helen Keane is assistant professor at the Australian National University. She is the author of What’s Wrong with Addiction? (2002). Stacey Margolis teaches English at the University of Utah. She is currently completing a book entitled The Novel Effect. Timothy Melley is an associate professor of English at Miami University in Oxford , Ohio. He is the author of Empire of Conspiracy: The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America (2000). Marc RedWeld is Chair of the Department of English at Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman (1996) and The Politics of Aesthetics: Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism (2003). Marty Roth is a professor of American literature and Wlm studies at the University of Minnesota. He has worked for the past ten years in the Weld of cultural intoxication and addiction studies. Cannon Schmitt teaches English at Duke University. He is the author of Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality (1997). His current book-in-progress is titled Savage Mnemonics: South America, Victorian Science, and the Reinvention of the Human. Maurizio Viano teaches in the Cinema and Media Studies Program at Wellesley College. Marguerite R. Waller is a professor of English and women’s studies at the University of California, Riverside, where she also teaches in the Film and Visual Culture Program. She is the author of Petrarch’s Poetics and Literary History, coeditor with Jennifer Rycenga of Frontline Feminisms: Women, War, and Resistance, and coeditor with Frank Burke of Contemporary Perspectives on Federico Fellini. Robyn R. Warhol is a professor of English and the chair of the Department of English at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Popular Forms (2003); Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse in the Victorian Novel (1989), and coeditor with Diane Price Herndl of Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism (1991 and 1997). Nicholas Warner, professor of English and comparative literature at Claremont McKenna College, is the author of Spirits of America: Intoxication in 19th Century American Literature (1997) and of numerous articles on English, American, and Russian literature. Ann Weinstone is an assistant professor of comparative literature and radio, television, and Wlm at Northwestern University. Her Wrst book, Avatar Bodies: A Tantra for Posthumanism, is forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press. She is currently at work on a cross-cultural study of concepts of media. 226 CONTRIBUTORS ...

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