Contributors
- Contributors
Jean Casimir, jean.casimir@comcast.net, teaches courses on the formation of Haitian and Caribbean culture and society at the Faculty of Human Sciences at State University of Haiti. He taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, his alma mater, and as Visiting Professor at the University of the West Indies (St. Augustine and Mona campus) and at Stanford University and at Duke University as a Mellon Professor. He served as social affairs officer at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC) from 1975 to 1988 and as his country’s ambassador to the United States and to the Organization of American States (OAS) from 1991 to 1997. He published La cultura oprimida (1981); La Caraïbe, une et divisible (1991); Souviens-toi de 1804 (2004); and Haïti et ses élites, l’interminable dialogue de sourds (2009). His current research focuses on the Haitian State.
Leo Ching, leoching@me.com, is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at National University of Singapore. He is the author of Becoming “Japanese”: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation (U of California P, 2001; Chinese and Japanese translations are available from Maitian chuban and Blues Interactions). His writings have appeared in Public Culture, boundary 2, positions: an east asian cultural critique, and several other edited volumes. He is currently completing a book manuscript on anti-Japanism in postwar postcolonial Asia.
Roberto Dainotto, dainotto@duke.edu, is Professor of Italian and of Literature at Duke University where he teaches courses on modern and contemporary Italian culture. His publications include Racconti Americani del 900 (Einaudi, 1999); Place in Literature: Regions, Cultures, Communities (Cornell UP, 2000); and Europe (in Theory) (Duke UP, 2007), winner of the Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies in 2010. His research interests include the Italian historicist tradition (Vico, Cuoco, Manzoni, Labriola, and Gramsci); the formation of national identity between regionalism and European integration; and Italian cinema. He is currently working on a book on Antonio Labriola.
Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui, sgrovog1@jhu.edu, is Professor of International Relations Theory and Law at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Sovereigns, Quasi-Sovereigns, and Africans (U of Minnesota P, 1996) and [End Page 191] Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy (Palgrave, April 2006). He is currently completing two manuscripts: the first on the genealogy of order, entitled Future Anterior: The International, Past and Present, and the second on the meaning of the “human” in human rights traditions under the rubric of Otherwise Human: The Institutes and Institutions of Human Rights. Grovogui has also been conducting a ten-year long study of the rule of law in Chad in the context of the Chad Oil and Pipeline Project, funded by the National Science Foundation.
Marina Grzinic, margrz@zrc-sazu.si, is Researcher Director at the Institute of Philosophy Scientific Research Centre at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. She has lectured in various places, including École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Kyoto Biennale, and The Berkeley Centre for New Media. Grzinic is a co-editor of Reartikulacija, a journal for politics, art, and theory, published in Ljubljana. Some of her monographs and volumes are Re-Politicizing Art, Theory, Representation and New Media Technology, (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, and Schlebrügge, Editor, 2008); Une fiction reconstruite. Europe de l’Est, post-socialisme et rétro-avant-garde (L’Harmattan, 2005); Aesthetics of Cyberspace and the Effects of De-realisation (Multimedijalni institut mi2 – MaMa, Zagreb, and Kosnica - centar za komunikaciju i kulturu, Sarajevo, Bih, 2005).
Hermann Herlinghaus, hxh@pitt.edu, is Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. His books include Renarración y Descentramiento: Mapas Alternativas de la Imaginación en América Latina (2004) and Violence Without Guilt: Ethical Narratives from the Global South (2009). He is currently finishing a book manuscript entitled A Global Aesthetics of Sobriety.
Pedro Lasch, plasch@duke.edu, was born and raised...
