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ix Acknowledgments I C A N N OT T H A N K enough Julie Carlson and Lisa Moore, who contributed hours and ergs of intellectual and editorial support—as well as calming professional advice—through several stages of the development of Extravagant Abjection: true dear friends and super-colleagues both. Many other colleagues and friends in the English departments of UC– Santa Barbara and UT–Austin were chapter readers, and sources of advice, encouragement, and inspiration: At UCSB I am especially grateful to Rita Raley, Guy Mark Foster, Chris Newfield, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Stephanie LeMenager, and Aranye Fradenburg, as well as to all the excellent students (from various departments) in my graduate seminars on Fanon, neo-slave narratives, and black masculinity and abjection. My department chairs during my time at UCSB, Carl Gutiérrez-Jones and William Warner, were generous in ensuring I had as much time as possible to work on this monograph, and in providing guidance and feedback during the process of writing. At UT–Austin I enjoyed an abundance of riches in terms of dynamic, inspirational, and fun colleagues, whose intellectual stimulation and companionship I continue to miss—I would particularly like to thank Ann Cvetkovich, Joanna Brooks, Barbara Harlow, Helena Woodard, Mia Carter, my chair Jim Garrison, and the ebullient students of my very first graduate seminar on Fanon. My Ph.D. studies at Stanford in Modern Thought and Literature of course were the foundation for this first academic book project. I am grateful to my wise and generous dissertation adviser and mentor Ramón Saldívar, and to Mary Pratt, Renato Rosaldo, Sharon Holland, Yvonne Yarbro -Bejarano, and Horace Porter. As Hazel Carby—whose graduate seminar on race, gender, and the culture industry at Yale is largely responsible for my decision to pursue a Ph.D., and who, along with my M.A. thesis adviser Vera Kutzkinski, I also would like to thank—once advised me, fellow graduate students are as much your teachers as professors are, and this proved to be very true for me: I and this project have been hugely x Acknowledgments influenced by, and I am especially grateful to, Danny Contreras, Lisa Thompson, and Diana Paulin, and also to the whole host of my fabulous fellows in MTL. Thoughtful observations and encouragement along the way from the late Barbara Christian, Lauren Berlant, Ken Warren, E. Patrick Johnson, Dwight McBride, Jennifer DeVere Brody, Phillip Brian Harper, Howard Winant, Elizabeth Abel, Abdul JanMohamed, Ian Duncan, and Geoff Mann were of invaluable assistance. Of crucial importance was institutional support in the form of fellowships and faculty education from the Ford Foundation, the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship program, UCSB’s Faculty Career Development Award, and the 2004 UC Humanities Research Institute’s faculty seminar on psychoanalysis. Many thanks also for the attentive and ever-helpful shepherding of this project by my editor, Eric Zinner, and his assistant, Ciara McLaughlin, and Sexual Cultures series editors, José Muñoz and Ann Pellegrini, at New York University Press. Michael Cobb and Robert Reid-Pharr disclosed to me their roles as manuscript reviewers for NYU; I am deeply grateful for their criticism and enthusiasm. In every writing project I have had the luxury of vital emotional and spiritual support—and no small amount of editorial assistance—from my partner, Stephen Liacouras, and this has never been more true than during the long, long process of bringing Extravagant Abjection to fruition; I am profusely grateful for his presence, generosity, and tireless cheerleading. ...