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  • Contributors

Bella Brodzki is the Alice Stone Ilchman Chair in Comparative and International Studies at Sarah Lawrence College, where she teaches comparative literature. She is the author of Can These Bones Live? Translation, Survival, and Cultural Memory and coeditor of Life/Lines: Theorizing Women's Autobiography. Her current project is a study of translators' prefaces in theoretical and literary texts.

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Psychic Life of Power, Excitable Speech, Bodies that Matter, Gender Trouble, Frames of War, and with Slavoj Žižek and Ernesto Laclau, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality.

Christian Delage is a historian and a documentary film maker. He is a professor at the University of Paris 8 and teaches as well at Sciences Po (Paris). He is a regular visiting professor at the Cardozo School of Law in New York City and the author of La vérité par l'image: De Nuremberg au process Milosevic, forthcoming in English translation from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Rosanne Kennedy is associate professor and head of Gender, Sexuality and Culture at the Australian National University. Her research interests include trauma, testimony, and memory in cultural, literary, and legal texts and contexts; Holocaust and Stolen Generations; literature and human rights; and life writing. She has recently coedited an issue of Humanities Research titled "Decolonizing Testimony" and an issue of Australian Feminist Studies titled "Witnessing, Trauma, and Social Suffering: Feminist Perspectives." Her "Indigenous Australian Arts of Return: Mediating Perverse Archives" appears in Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory.

Michael G. Levine is professor of German and comparative literature at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Belated Witness: Literature, Testimony, and the Question of Holocaust Survival and Writing Through Repression: Literature, Censorship, Psychoanalysis. He is currently completing a new book, "A Weak Messianic Power: Constellations of the Future in Twentieth-Century German-Jewish Thought," under contract with Fordham University Press. [End Page 453]

Rosalind C. Morris is professor of anthropology at Columbia University, where she has taught since 1994. Her most recent books are Photographies East: The Camera and Its Histories in East and Southeast Asia and Can the Subaltern Speak: Reflections on the History of an Idea. She has written widely on questions of representation, translation, media, and modernity in the global south, particularly in South Africa and Southeast Asia. A collection of essays entitled Wars I Have (Not) Seen will be published by Seagull Books in 2012.

Shireen R. K. Patell is clinical assistant professor of Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies and associate director of Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies at New York University. Her publications include articles in New Centennial Review, Cardozo Law Review, and Poeisis.

Jared Stark is an associate professor of literature at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida. His publications include essays and reviews in the Yale Journal of Criticism, History and Memory, Modernism/Modernity, Clio, and The Space Between, No Common Place: The Holocaust Testimony of Alina Bacall-Zwirn, and the English translation of Annette Wieviorka, The Era of the Witness. His current project is a study of literature, suicide, and the right to die.

Sergey Toymentsev received his MA in Russian and English from Kazan University in Russia, before he came to the United States as a Fulbright Fellow. He is currently a PhD candidate in comparative literature at Rutgers University working on a dissertation on Deleuze and Russian film. His areas of interest include continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, and Soviet and post-Soviet studies and world cinema.

Elisabeth Weber teaches German and comparative literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests include French philosophy and theory, psychoanalysis, and trauma-studies. She is the author of a book on Emmanuel Levinas, Verfolgung and Trauma (Persecution and Trauma). She is the editor of several volumes, including Questioning Judaism and several works by Jacques Derrida. The multiauthored collection Assault on Truth: Torture from the Perspective of the Humanities, coedited with Julie Carlson, is forthcoming from Fordham University Press. The multiauthored collection Living Together: Jacques Derrida's Communities of Peace and Violence is under consideration. Her current research and...

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