Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Chris Bongie
Chris Bongie is Professor of English at Queen’s University and the author of two books, both published by Stanford University Press: Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, and the Fin de Siècle (1991) and Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature. His translation and critical edition of Victor Hugo’s novel about the Haitian Revolution, Bug-Jargal (1826), will be coming out with Broadview Press in 2004.
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Christy L. Burns
Christy L. Burns is Associate Professor of English at the College of William and Mary. Her book, Gestural Politics: Stereotype and Parody in Joyce, came out in 2000 from SUNY Press. She has published articles on film and media studies, and on nationalism, gender, and sexuality issues in Joyce, Woolf, Winterson, Boland, and others. Her current book project addresses the role of sensate experience in modern to postmodern fiction
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Bradley Butterfield
Bradley Butterfield is Associate Professor of English at University of Wisconsin at La Crosse. He has published several articles comparing twentieth-century theory and fiction, including an essay on Baudrillard and J.G. Ballard’s Crash in PMLA, and is now working on a book on post-Nietzschean aesthetic theories.
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Diane Davis
Diane Davis is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and English at the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in rhetorical theory, contemporary writing theory, and cyberculture. Her first book, Breaking Up [at] Totality: A Rhetoric of Laughter, appeared in 2000 with Southern Illinois Press; she is currently finishing a second book, Inessential Solidarity, and editing The Ronell Reader.
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Del Doughty
Del Doughty is Associate Professor of English at Huntington College. His second collection of poems, Flow, will be published as an artists’ book by Red Moon Press in 2004.
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Steven Helmling
Steven Helmling is Professor of English at the University of Delaware. He has published widely on twentieth-century literature and culture. He is the author of two books: The Esoteric Comedies of Carlyle, Newman and Yeats (Cambridge UP, 1988) and The Success and Failure of Fredric Jameson (SUNY, 2001). He is currently working on a book on Adorno.
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Valerie Karno
Valerie Karno is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island, where she specializes in Law and Literature. Her most recent article, “Remote Justice: Tuning In to Small Claims, Race, and the Reinvigoration of Civic Judgment,” is forthcoming in Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. She is currently revising her manuscript, Legal Topographies. She teaches courses in Literature and Democracy and Postmodernism of the Americas.
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Claudia Brodsky Lacour
Claudia Brodsky Lacour is Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University and ancien directeur de programme at the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris. She is the author of The Imposition of Form: Studies in Narrative Representation and Knowledge (1987), Lines of Thought: Discourse, Architectonics, and the Origin of Modern Philosophy (1996), and several articles on German, French, and English literature and philosophy from the Enlightenment through the present.
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Peter Yoonsuk Paik
Peter Yoonsuk Paik is Assistant Professor in the Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. He has written on Hermann Broch, Paul Celan, Gilles Deleuze, and Andrei Tarkovsky, and his work has appeared in the Yale Broch Symposium and Religion and the Arts. He is currently completing a manuscript dealing with revelatory experience in literature and film.
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Theresa Smalec
Theresa Smalec is a doctoral candidate in Performance Studies at New York University. Her dissertation-in-progress is titled “Body of Work: Liveness, Mediation, and Ron Vawter’s Performance Archive.” Her recent work has been published in Delirium, TDR: The Drama Review, Theatre Journal, and The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism.
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Leonard Wilcox
Leonard Wilcox is Head of the Department of American Studies at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is author of V. F. Calverton: Radical in the American Grain (Temple, 1992), and editor of Rereading Sam Shepard: Critical Essays on the Plays of Sam Shepard (St. Martins, 1993). He...
