Contributors
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Lynn Keller, professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the author of Re-Making It New: Contemporary American Poetry and the Modernist Tradition (Cambridge, 1987), Forms of Expansion: Recent Long Poems by Women (Chicago, 1997), and Thinking Poetry: Readings in Contemporary Women’s Exploratory Poetics (Iowa, forthcoming in 2010). She co-edited, with Cristanne Miller, Feminist Measures: Soundings in Poetry and Theory (Michigan, 1994), and she is an editor for the University of Iowa Press Contemporary North American Poetry series. Her current project involves ecopoetics.
Jacob Edmond is senior lecturer in the department of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has published on cross-cultural encounter, comparative literature, generic and inter-art boundary-crossing, and avant-garde poetics, focusing on poetry in Russian, Chinese, and English. Poets he has written on include Kamau Brathwaite, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Yang Lian, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Osip Mandelstam, and Alexander Pushkin. He has edited special issues of New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies and Landfall (on Russia), and edited and translated, with Hilary Chung, Yang Lian’s Unreal City: A Chinese Poet in Auckland. He is at work on a book on contemporary poetry, cross-cultural encounter, and comparative literature.
Michael Marais is associate professor of English at Rhodes University, South Africa. He has published numerous articles on J. M. Coetzee and other South African writers and has a book forthcoming from Rodopi titled Secretary of the Invisible: The Idea of Hospitality in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee.
Cameron Fae Bushnell is assistant professor of English at Clemson University. Her published and forthcoming essays are on Toni Morrison’s Jazz as a cultural translation, West Indian literary tradition in V. S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas, and resituating Edward Said’s contrapuntalism in music. The recipient of a two-year Arts and Humanities faculty fellowship from Clemson, she is at work on a book about literary constructions of alterity through music.
Carter A. Mathes is assistant professor of English at Rutgers University. He was an NEH fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for 2008–9. His book project is titled “Imagine the Sound: Experimental Form in Post-Civil Rights African American Literary Culture.”
Sarah Brouillette is assistant professor of literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of Postcolonial Writers in the Global [End Page 436] Literary Marketplace (Palgrave, 2007), as well as articles on contemporary literature and economics, tourism, and the creative industries.
David Huntsperger is an assistant professor in the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Communication at Lawrence Technological University. His book Procedural Form in Postmodern American Poetry: Berrigan, Antin, Silliman, Hejinian is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan in 2010.
Melinda DiStefano received her Ph.D. from Duke University and is at work on her first book, “The Organic Citizen: Democratic Participation and Indigeneity in U.S. Eco-Narratives of the Twentieth Century.” During 2008–9 she was a visiting instructor at Lafayette College; in 2009–10 she will be a visiting professor of English at Rowan University.
Bill Albertini is assistant professor of English at Bowling Green State University. Topics of his articles include avian influenza and the U.S. national imaginary, global contagion and national borders, contagion and the technologies of sight, and suffering and chronic illness in visual culture. [End Page 437]
