Notes on Contributors
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Ludi Boeken was born in Amsterdam, and started out as a war correspondent for BBC and Dutch TV in the Middle East and covered South and Central America and Africa. He subsequently directed over 25 investigative documentaries (including the Emmy Award-winning Who Killed Georgi Markov [BBC Panorama], the prize-winning The Other Face of Terror [Channel Four] and Gypsyland [Channel Four]), covering Human Rights subjects as well as terrorism, arms trade, torture, etc. He then produced many feature films such as Vincent and Theo by Robert Altman (starring Tim Roth), Silent Tongue by Sam Shepard (starring Richard Harris, Alan Bates and River Phoenix), La Fracture du Myocarde by Jacques Fansten, and Train of Life by Radu Milhaelianu, before directing his first feature film, Britney Baby One More Time (Sundance 2002). His second feature film was Deadlines, co-directed with Michael Lerner and starring Anne Parillaud and Stephen Moyer ("Best Feature Film" at the Santa Barbara Film Festival 2005, "Best European Film" award at the Avignon Film Festival 2004, "Best British Feature Film" at the Cherbourg Film Festival 2005, "Best Actress" award for Anne Parillaud at the Paris International Film Festival 2004). His latest feature film as director is Saviors In The Night (Unter Bauern), the award-winning tale of a group of German farmers who, throughout the Nazi period, save a Jewish family on their farm. The film stars Veronica Ferres, Armin Rohde, Lia Hoensbroech and Martin Horn, and is currently in the theatres in the USA, after having opened the NY and San Francisco Jewish film festivals. At present Boeken is producing Christian Duguay's Jappeloup, the horse jumping saga starring Guillaume Canet and Daniel Auteuil. Boeken is preparing to direct Un Mec Sympa, a French thriller, and Nelson, of which he won't tell anyone a thing . . .
Henry L. Carrigan, Jr. is Assistant Director and Senior Editor at Northwestern University Press, where he acquires books in comparative literature, literary theory and criticism, and German Studies, among other areas. He writes about books and readings on topics ranging from music and film to science and history for a number of publications including Publishers Weekly, the Washington Post, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Bookpage.
Hannah C. Freeman is an Assistant Professor of English and the Director of the Center for Experiential Learning at University of Pikeville in Pikeville KY. Freeman has presented at numerous conferences on British literature in the nineteenth century, including the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, the British Women Writers Conference, and the College English Association Conference. Her article, "Dissolution and Landscape in Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm," appears in English Studies in Africa 52.2 (2009).
Mary Anne Garnett is Professor of French and Chair of the Department of International and Second Language Studies at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. A specialist in nineteenth-century French literature and women's autobiographical writing, she has expanded her focus to abolitionist literature and is currently preparing a translation of Louis Timogène Houat's 1844 anti-slavery novel Les marrons. [End Page 181]
Stefanie Harris is Associate Professor of German and Film Studies at Texas A&M University. She is the author of Mediating Modernity: German Literature and the "New" Media, 1895-1930 (Penn State University Press, 2009), and has published widely on twentieth-century German literature and German film, including articles on Rilke, Sebald, Kluge, and Herzog.
Lena Khor is Assistant Professor of English at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, where she teaches courses in postcolonial studies, as well as human rights and humanitarian discourses in literature and film. She has published "Human Rights and Network Power" in Human Rights Quarterly 33.1 (2011). She is working on a project about human rights discourse and its influence on individual identity and agency as it circulates globally.
Sarah Juliet Lauro is the co-author of "A Zombie Manifesto: The Nonhuman Condition in the Era of Advanced Capitalism" (Boundary 2, 35:1 [2008]: 85-108), co-editor of Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-human (New York: Fordham University Press, 2011), and recently completed her dissertation, an intellectual history of the zombie myth, at the...
