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273 Diaspora 6:2 1997 Notes on Contributors Ali Behdad is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California–Los Angeles. He is the author of Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution (Duke UP, USA, and Cork UP, Ireland, 1994) and the Editor of a special issue of L'Esprit Créateur, “Orientalism Beyond Orientalism,” and has written nearly twenty articles including “INS and Outs: Producing Delinquency at the Border,” (Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies 23, 1998) and “Global Disjunctures, Diasporic Differences and the New World (Dis)Order,” forthcoming in A Companion to Postcolonial Studies, ed. Sangeeta Ray and Henry Schwarz (Blackwell, 1998). Paul Bolt is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the US Air Force Academy. His dissertation, “China's Development and the Chinese Overseas, 1978–1994,” investigated the relationship between state and diaspora. He is the author of “The New Economic Partnership between China and Singapore” (Asian Affairs 23, 1996) and “Looking to the Diaspora” (Diaspora 5, 1996), as well as other articles and conference papers on Taiwan's and Singapore's relationship with mainland China. Bolt has also taught at Baicheng Normal College and Zhejiang University in China. Kwok Bun Chan is Associate Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Smoke and Fire: The Chinese in Montreal (1991, Chinese University Press of Hong Kong [English]; forthcoming in Chinese from Beijing University Press) and co-author of Stepping Out: The Making of Chinese Entrepreneurs (1994, Prentice Hall and the National University of Singapore's Centre for Advanced Studies [English]; forthcoming in Chinese from China Social Sciences Publishing). He is also the author or co-author of over twenty articles on the Chinese in Canada, the sociology of migration, and the family. Artemis Leontis is Adjunct Professor of Modern Greek at the Ohio State University. She is the author of Topographies of Hellenism: Mapping a Homeland (Cornell UP, 1995), Greece: A Literary Companion (Whereabouts Press, 1997), and articles in xxxxxxxxxxxx 274 Diaspora 6:2 1997 Greek and English such as “Beyond Hellenicity” (Journal of Modern Greek Studies 15, 1997) and “The Diaspora of the Novel” (Diaspora 2, 1992); and co-author of “A Genealogy of Experience: From Epistemology to Politics” (Yale Journal of Criticism 6, 1993). John Marx is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Trinity College, Hartford. His dissertation, “Modernist Inventions of British Decline” (Brown University, 1998), challenges the assumption that common English readers thought that their global hegemony was on the wane at the beginning of the twentieth century and argues that this impression was the work of Modernist writers and intellectuals. Marx is the author of “Conrad's Gout” (forthcoming in Modernism/Modernity) and “Colonial Property” (forthcoming in The Anthropology of Property, ed. I. Skoggard and S. Kasmir). Aparajita Sagar is Associate Professor of English at Purdue University and specializes in postcolonial literatures and feminist cultural studies. She is the author of The Caribbean Palimpsest: Women, Writing and Postcoloniality (forthcoming, Duke UP) and of articles such as “Caribbean-American Literature” in New Immigrant Literatures in the United States (ed. Alpana Sharma Knippling, Greenwood P, 1996). She was Guest Editor of and contributor to Modern Fiction Studies 39 (1993), a special issue on “Fiction of the Indian Subcontinent” and Guest Co-Editor of and contributor to Modern Fiction Studies 44 (1998) on “Contested Spaces in the Caribbean and the Americas.” Lisa Siraganian has just completed her first year as a graduate student and Andrew Mellon Humanities Fellow at the English Department of the Johns Hopkins University. She graduated from Williams College with a degree in English in 1995 and completed a second degree in English at Exeter College, Oxford, in 1997. She is interested in the literature and theories of indigenousness, nationalism , and diaspora, with a particular interest in Armenia and its diaspora. This is her first scholarly article. ...

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