Contributors
- Contributors
Debbie Epstein is a professor at Cardiff University School of Social Sciences. Previous publications include: Challenging Lesbian and Gay Inequalities in Education, Schooling Sexualities (with Richard Johnson), A Dangerous Knowing: Sexuality, Pedagogy and Popular Culture (with James T. Sears) and Silenced Sexualities in Schools and Universities (with Sarah O'Flynn and David Telford).
Eric Paoli Infanzón is an Art major at Illinois Wesleyan University with concentrations in Graphic Design and Painting. In addition, he also does large drawings and sculpture. Much of his work deals with social issues and matters of perception. He is a recipient of Illinois Wesleyan University's President's Award for his drawing Objectionable Beauty. He is a founding member of his college's Minority Art Student's League.
María Fernanda Lander is an assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis. Her field of study is Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin American Literatures and Cultures. She has published a book on the nineteenth-century Latin American novel, Modelando corazones. Sentimentalismo y urbanidad en la novela hispanoamericana del siglo XIX, (Beatriz Viterbo, 2003) and has also authored articles on Federico Gamboa, Alfredo Bryce Echenique and Miguel Otero Silva, among others. She is currently working on a book-long project about violence and literature in Latin America.
Jacques Lezra is professor of English and Spanish at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has published Unspeakable Subjects: The Genealogy of the Event in Early Modern Europe (Stanford, 1997) and edited Depositions: Althusser, Balibar, Macherey and the Labor of Reading (Yale 1988). His 1992 translation into Spanish of Paul de Man's Blindness and Insight won the PEN Critical Editions Award in 1993. Most recently, he is coeditor of Sebastián de Covarrubias's 1613 [End Page 115] Suplemento al 'Tesoro de la lengua'. He us now completing a book titled The Ethic of Terror in Radical Democracy.
Tabea Alexa Linhard is assistant professor of Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis. She has written on literature and popular culture in Mexico and Spain and is currently working on a manuscript on the intersections of gender, culture and violence.
Mauricio Parra is associate professor of Hispanic Studies at Illinois Wesleyan University. He specializes in modern and contemporary Latin American literature, film and culture. He has published numerous articles on a wide variety of topics, including Gabriel García Márquez's works, representations of the city in contemporary Colombian fiction and the modern/postmodern debate in Latin American criticism. His most recent publication is the bilingual edition Myths and Legends of Mexico (Center for Chicano Studies, University of California, 2003). He is currently working on a book tentatively entitled Rupturas y desplazamientos: la nueva novela de la violencia colombiana.
Deborah Lynn Steinberg is a Reader in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK and an Associate Lecturer for the Open University. Publications include: Border Patrols: Policing the Boundaries of Heterosexuality (with Debbie Epstein and Richard Johnson), Bodies in Glass: Genetics, Eugenics, Embryo Ethics; Mourning Diana: Nation, Culture and the Performance of Grief (with Adrian Kear); and the forthcoming Blairism and the War of Persuasion: Labour's Passive Revolution (with Richard Johnson)
Jeff Sychterz is a Ph.D. candidate in English literature at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he specializes in poetry and poetics, American literature, Anglo-American Modernisms and twentieth century war literature. He is currently completing his dissertation entitled "'Not Always Carrion': Representing the Corpse in Twentieth Century Anglo-American War Poetry." [End Page 116]
