Contributors
- Contributors
Gil Anidjar is Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, New York. He is the author of “Our Place in Al-Andalus”: Kabbalah, Philosophy, and Literature in Arab-Jewish Letters (Stanford, 2002) and the editor of Derrida’s writings on religion, Acts of Religion (Routledge, 2001). His most recent book is The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy (Stanford, 2003).
Nicholas Brown teaches in the departments of English and African American studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His book Utopian Generations: The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.
Rodolphe Gasché is Eugenio Donato Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His books include Die Hybride Wissenschaft, System und Metaphorik in der Philosophie von Georges Bataille; The Tain of the Mirror: Derrida and the Philosophy of Reflection; Inventions of Difference: On Jacques Derrida; The Wild Card of Reading: [End Page 321] On Paul de Man; and Of Minimal Things: Studies on the Notion of Relation. His latest book is The Idea of Form: Rethinking Kant’s Aesthetic. Currently, he is completing a book-length study entitled The Honor of Thinking.
A. C. Goodson is Professor of English and founding director of the program in comparative literature at Michigan State University in East Lansing. He is a contributing editor at the Jahrbuch für Europaeische Prozesse (see website at http://www.iablis.com ), for which he has recent articles on the Houston background to the war in Iraq, and on Walter Abish against Freud’s culture concept. A further study of Schmitt, this one on his prophetic voice, is forthcoming there.
Geoffrey Hale is the author of Kierkegaard and the Ends of Language (University of Minnesota, 2002), as well as essays on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and literature. He has also translated Hent de Vries’s Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas (Johns Hopkins, 2004). He is currently a visiting scholar in the Department of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Werner Hamacher is Director of the Institute for General and Comparative Literature at the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, and Distinguished Global Professor at New York University. He has published widely about the interrelations between philosophy, literature, and politics, and is the author of Premises: Essays on Philosophy and Literature from Kant to Celan (Stanford, 1996) and Pleroma: Reading in Hegel (Stanford, 1999).
Eva Horn is Assistant Professor of Western European Literature and Cultural Studies at Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany. She is the author of numerous works that focus on borders, war, secret services, treason, and political secrecy, including “Knowing the Enemy: The Epistemology of Secret Intelligence” (Grey Room, 2003); Grenzverletzer (Kadmos, 2002); and “Leichen im Keller der Macht: Zur [End Page 322] Theorie des modernen Staatsgeheimnisses” in Eskalationen, ed. Scherpe and Weitin (Francke, 2003). She has just finished a new book manuscript, The Secret War: Espionage and Treason in Modern Literature.
Kate Jenckes is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Rice University, Houston, Texas. She specializes in Latin American literature and critical theory, and is currently working on a book on poetry and testimony. She has published essays in Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Revista de estudios hispánicos, Latin American Literary Review, and CR: The New Centennial Review. She is also an active member of Extremoccidente, a journal of social and cultural criticism published in Santiago, Chile.
David Medei is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at Michigan State University, East Lansing, specializing in nineteenth-century American literature, border studies, and economic theory. His dissertation is titled “(Ex)changing Indians in United States Policy, Ethnography, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century.”
Alberto Moreiras is Anne and Robert Bass Professor of Romance Studies and Literature, and Director of the Center for European Studies at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. He is the author of Interpretación y diferencia; Tercer espacio: Duelo y literatura en América Latina; and The Exhaustion of Difference: The Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies. He is a coeditor of the Journal of Spanish Cultural...
