Biographies
- Biographies
Paul Apostolidis is Professor of Politics and T. Paul Endowed Chair of Political Science at Whitman College http://www.whitman.edu/academics/courses-of-study/politics/faculty/paul-apostolidis. He has authored Breaks in the Chain: What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America about Democracy (Minnesota, 2010) and Stations of the Cross: Adorno and Christian Right Radio (Duke, 2000); he co-edited Public Affairs: Politics in the Age of Sex Scandals (Duke, 2004). He is currently writing a book on migrant day laborers, popular education, and the struggle for time under neoliberalism. He received his PhD and MA from Cornell University and his AB from Princeton University. Paul can be reached at apostopc@whitman.edu
George Ciccariello-Maher teaches political theory from below at Drexel University in Philadelphia, having taught previously at UC Berkeley, San Quentin State Prison, and the Venezuelan School of Planning in Caracas. Alongside Joel Olson, he was a member of Bring the Ruckus. His first book, We Created Chávez: A People’s History of the Venezuelan Revolution, was published last year by Duke University Press, and he is currently completing a book on decolonial dialectics and another on Venezuela’s communes. George can be reached at gjcm@drexel.edu
Joe Hughes is a Lecturer in English and Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne where he teaches literary theory and history. He has written widely on the thought of Gilles Deleuze and the history of the novel. His most recent book is Philosophy After Deleuze (Continuum, 2012). Joe can be reached at jhughes2@unimelb.edu.au
Alexander Livingston is an Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell University. His research addresses issues of democratic theory, political morality, and the history of political thought. He is currently completing a book-length study of the anti-imperialist political philosophy of William James. His writing has appeared in the journals Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, theory & event, Philosophy and Rhetoric, and elsewhere. Alexander can be reached at alexander.livington@cornell.edu; his website is here: http://www.alexander-livingston.com
Mindy Peden is Associate Professor of Political Science at John Carroll University. She has published in Studies in Political Economy, Contemporary Political Theory, and Politics and Policy. Her most recent work can be found in Lessons from the Northern Ireland Peace Process, edited by Tim White (University of Wisconsin Press). Mindy can be reached at mpeden@jcu.edu
Jordana Rosenberg is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Rosenberg is the co-editor, with Chi-ming Yang, of The Dispossessed Eighteenth Century (ECTI, 2014), and with Amy Villarejo, of Queer Studies and the Crises of Capitalism (GLQ, 2012). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals that include Radical History Review, J19, ELH, and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. She is the author of Critical Enthusiasm: Capital Accumulation and the Transformation of Religious Passion (Oxford, 2011). Jordana can be reached at jrosenberg@english.umass.edu
Michael D. Snediker is Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston. His research interests include nineteenth and twentieth-century American Literature and poetics, affect theory, and disability theory. He is the author of Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and other Felicitous Persuasions (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) and Contingent Figure: Aesthetic Duress from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Eve Kosofksy Sedgwick (University of Minnesota Press, under contract). He is also the author of The Apartment of Tragic Appliances (Punctum Books, 2013), which was a Lambda Finalist for poetry. His current work includes a study of Emerson’s “spires of form,” as well as The New York Editions, a book-length translation of Henry James’s novels into poems. Michael can be reached at ulyssesdove@outlook.com
Alberto Toscano is Reader in Critical Theory in the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (Verso, 2010) and co-author (with Jeff Kinkle) of the forthcoming Cartographies of the Absolute (Zero, 2014). He sits on the editorial board of Historical Materialism and is series editor of The Italian List for Seagull Books. Alberto can be reached at A.Toscano@gold.ac.uk
