Contributors
- Contributors
Karyn Ball teaches critical and literary theory at the University of Alberta. Her article "Global High Culture in the Era of Neo-Liberalism: the Case of Documenta11" appeared in Neoliberalism in Crisis, Accumulation, and Rosa Luxemburg's Legacy, edited by Paul Zarembka and Susanne Soederberg. She recently guest-edited a special issue of Parallax devoted to the concept of "visceral reason" and is working on a book on the vicissitudes of politicized agendas in recent cultural criticism.
Louise Economides is assistant professor of English at the University of Montana. Her research interests include literature of the Romantic period, environmental philosophy, postmodernism, and systems theory.
Nouri Gana is Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral fellow at the department of English at Queen's University. He has published on the question of mourning in literature and culture in Mosaic, American Imago, and Psychoanalysis, Culure & Society. He is putting the final touches on the manuscript of Signifying Loss: Freud, Joyce, Kincaid, Derrida, and the Poetics of Mourning.
Mirko M. Hall is a PhD candidate in German studies at the University of Minnesota.
Peter Uwe Hohendahl teaches modern European literature as well as cultural and literary theory at Cornell University. He is director of the Institute for German Cultural Studies. Among his more recent publications are Prismatic Thought: Theodor W. Adorno (1995), Oeffentlichkeit: Geschichte eines kritischen Begriffs (2000), and German Studies in the United States: A Critical Handbook (2003).
Mitchum Huehls is assistant professor of English at College Misericordia. He is currently working on a book-length investigation of how contemporary American literature deals with the problem of time and knowledge. [End Page 236]
Sarah S. Jain is assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Stanford University. She is author of Injury (2005) and Commodity Violence (forthcoming).
Gregory Jusdanis teaches in the department of Greek and Latin at Ohio State University. The author of The Poetics of Cavafy: Textuality, Eroticism, History (1987), Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture: Inventing National Literature (1991), and The Necessary Nation (2001), he has also written articles on modernism, diaspora, multiculturalism, globalization, and world literature.
Stacy Takacs is assistant professor of American studies at Oklahoma State University. Her research interests include media and globalization, and she has published on these topics in the journals Cultural Studies and Spectator: Journal of Film and Television Criticism. She is currently working on a manuscript analyzing the role of U.S. television in the mediation of postnational forms of power and agency in the contemporary context.
Alan Wald is professor of English at the University of Michigan. He is most recently author of Exiles from a Future Time (2002). [End Page 237]
