Living Attention: On Teresa Brennan

Acknowledgments

ix Acknowledgments ‫ﱡﱣﱢﱡ‬ Alice A. Jardine: I am sincerely grateful to the faculty and staff of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Harvard University, and especially to the Chair of WGS, Afsaneh Najmabadi, for their generous support of the memorial conference in Teresa’s honor held at Harvard on May 1, 2004. I am grateful to my co-editors, Shannon Lundeen and Kelly Oliver, for their spirit and determination to make this volume happen. I want to express my sincere admiration for the many friends and colleagues from around the world who have spoken at one or more of the conferences and panels organized in Teresa’s honor since her untimely death. I especially want to thank Teresa’s daughter, Sangi; Angela Williams, Sangi’s guardian angel; my many priceless friends; and my own dear Anna for all their love and moral support during the time this volume was being compiled. Finally, thank you, Teresa, for teaching me so much about what really matters in our short lives on earth, and especially about how to give and receive a quality of Living Attention that can really make a difference. Shannon Lundeen: I would like to thank my co-editors, Kelly Oliver and Alice Jardine, for giving me the opportunity to work on such an inspiring and robust collection of essays on Teresa Brennan. I would also like to thank Teresa for her unwavering commitments to feminist theory, social justice, and radical thinking and activism, all of which are evident in the scholarship that she has left us. To each of the authors in this volume, I would like to express my gratitude for not only your insightful, critical essays, but also for your receptivity, flexibility, and promptness during the editing stages of the book. Finally, I would like to express my appreciation to my family and friends for supporting me in this and all other projects that I’ve taken on. Kelly Oliver: Thanks to Elizabeth Grosz for helping to organize the Teresa Brennan Memorial Symposium at Stony Brook University, Manhattan, October 2–4, 2003. Thanks to all of the participants, some of whom have contributed to this volume. Shannon Lundeen, Michael Sigrist, and Julie Sushytska provided invaluable assistance for that event. Thanks to Shannon Lundeen who has also done the “lion’s share” of the editing for this volume and kept us all on schedule. A special thanks to Tina Chanter and Jane Bunker for their encouragement and confidence in this project. Finally, thank you Teresa for your inspiring work and life, which continue to engage us. x Acknowledgments ...