Contributors
- Contributors
Bei Dao is the Mackey Poet at Beloit College. His book Midnight’s Gate will be available in 2005.
Jim Bonk is a graduate student in East Asian studies at McGill University, specializing in the literary history of Republican China.
Joshua Brown, a professor at the Center for Media and Learning, CUNY Graduate Center, is the author of Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America (2002).
Carolyn Eisenberg is a professor of history at Hofstra University and the author of Drawing the Line: The American Decision to Divide Germany (1996).
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet and author, is the founder of City Lights Books in San Francisco.
Matthew Fryslie presently resides in Taipei.
Sue Golding (johnny de philo) is chair and professor of philosophy in the visual arts and communication technologies at the University of Greenwich, London. She is also director of the postgraduate Critical Studies, New Media Arts program. Her latest book, Dirty Theory [End Page 291] (2005), concentrates on the muscular sensualities of poetics in visual-acoustic culture, ethics, and art.
Freda Guttman, a Canadian peace activist and installation artist, is a member of the Jewish Alliance against the Occupation and of the Montreal chapter of the International Solidarity Movement.
Harry Harootunian is a professor of East Asian studies and history at New York University. His most recent publication is The Empire’s New Clothes: Paradigm Lost, and Regained (2004).
Sharon Hayashi, a lecturer in Japanese cinema at the Center for International Studies, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, is codirecting a documentary on Japan’s pink film industry.
Reynaldo Ileto is a professor of history and the coordinator of the Southeast Asian Studies Program at the National University of Singapore. His latest book, Knowledge and Pacification: Essays on the U.S. Conquest and the Writing of Philippine History, will be published in 2005.
Joy Kogawa is a Canadian novelist, author of The Rain Ascends (1995). She lives in Toronto and Vancouver.
Kuang Xinnian teaches modern Chinese literature at Tsinghua University, Beijing, where he is currently specializing in modern Taiwan literature. He is the author of 1928: Geming wenxue (1928: Revolutionary Literature) (1998).
Thomas LaMarre, a professor of East Asian studies at McGill University, is the author of Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun’ichirô on Cinema and Oriental Aesthetics (2005).
Sumit K. Mandal, a research fellow at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, is working on a manuscript on Arabs and Islam in Java in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Edoarda Masi, author of Storie del bosco letterario (2002), has retired from the Istituto Universitario Orientale Napoli.
Brian Massumi, a professor in the Département de Communication, L’Université de Montréal, is the author of Parables of the Virtual (2002).
Anne McKnight, an assistant professor of East Asian studies at McGill University, specializes in film noir and Cold War cultural studies in Japan.
Carel Moiseiwitsch is a Vancouver artist and longtime social activist. She taught for more than ten years at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and currently works with IV drug users living with HIV/AIDS in Vancouver’s downtown Eastside. [End Page 292]
Alberto Moreiras is a professor of romance studies at Duke University and is the author of The Exhaustion of Difference (2001).
Claudia Pozzana, a researcher in the Department of Linguistic and Oriental Studies, University of Bologna, is working on a manuscript titled “Thinking Poetry: The Contemporary Chinese Poetic Configuration.”
Alessandro Russo, an associate professor of sociology, School of Education, University of Bologna, is working on China’s Cultural Revolution.
Laurie Sears, a professor of history at the University of Washington, is working on a manuscript titled “Trauma, Haunting, and Memory in Indonesian and Dutch Indies Literatures.”
Satoshi Ukai is a professor of language and society at Hitotsubashi University in Japan. He is the author of Responsibilities (2003) and is currently working in the field of contemporary French literature and ideas.
Marilyn Young is a professor of history at New York University. She is the coeditor, with Lloyd Gardner, of The New American Empire (2005). [End Page 293]
