Contributors
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Benjamin Balthaser
Benjamin Balthaser is assistant professor of multiethnic US literature at Indiana University, South Bend. His research interests include transnational social movements, global modernism, and comparative ethnic studies. This article is an adaptation of chapter in his forthcoming book, Anti-Imperialist Modernism: Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War, to be published by the University of Michigan Press in 2015. His critical and creative work has previously appeared in American Quarterly, Minnesota Review, Criticism: A Quarterly Journal of the Arts, and elsewhere.
Nao Bustamante
Nao Bustamante is associate professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her work encompasses performance art, video installation, visual art, filmmaking, and writing. She has exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the New York Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sundance International Film Festival, El Museo del Barrio, and the Kiasma Museum of Helsinki. In 2013 she was awarded the CMAS-Benson Latin American Collection Research Fellowship and a Makers Muse Award from the Kindle Foundation.
Karen Mary Davalos
Karen Mary Davalos, chair and professor of Chicana/o studies at Loyola Marymount University, has published widely on Chicana/o art, spirituality, museums, and feminist theory. Her critically acclaimed book, Yolanda M. López (UCLA CSRC Press, with distribution by University of Minnesota Press, 2008), celebrates the life and work of one the most significant artists of the Américas. She is finishing a manuscript, “Chicana/o Art: An Errata of Improbable Subjects and Political Gestures.”
Jack Halberstam
Jack Halberstam is professor of American studies and ethnicity, gender studies, and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. Halberstam is the author of five books—Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke University Press, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke University Press, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (New York University Press, 2005), The [End Page 489] Queer Art of Failure (Duke University Press, 2011), and Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012). Halberstam has coedited a number of anthologies including Posthuman Bodies, with Ira Livingston (Indiana University Press, 1995), and a special issue of Social Text, with Jose Muñoz and David Eng, titled “What’s Queer about Queer Studies Now?” Halberstam is working on several projects including a book titled The Wild, on queer anarchy, performance and protest culture, the visual representation of anarchy, and the intersections between animality, the human, and the environment.
Tona Hangen
Tona Hangen is associate professor of nineteenth- and twentieth-century US history at Worcester State University. She is the author of Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America (University of North Carolina Press, 2002) and writes about American religious history and media studies. Her current book project explores religious dimensions of school desegregation in the South.
Jennifer Helgren
Jennifer Helgren is assistant professor of history at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She is the coeditor of Girlhood: A Global History (Rutgers University Press, 2010) and is the author of several articles on US girlhood. She is researching gendered internationalism and youth culture after World War II.
Miranda Joseph
Miranda Joseph is associate professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Debt to Society: Accounting for Life under Capitalism (University of Minnesota Press, 2014) and Against the Romance of Community (University of Minnesota Press, 2002).
Việt Lê
Việt Lê is an artist, writer, and curator (www.vietle.net). He has been published in positions: asia critique, Crab Orchard Review, Amerasia Journal, among other publications. His art and curatorial projects have been exhibited in Asia, Europe, and North America. Lê is currently assistant professor in the Visual Studies Program and the Visual and Critical Studies Graduate Program at the California College of the Arts. [End Page 490]
Simeon Man
Simeon Man is the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in American Studies and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. His research focuses on the transnational history of race and empire in the age of global decolonization after World War II. He is currently at work on his first book, “Soldiering through Empire: Race and the Making...
