Notes on Contributors

Emily Apter Teaches in the departments of French, English, and Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author of The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature; Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects; and Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France.

Thomas Bender Professor of History and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. His most recent books are The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea; Rethinking American History in a Global Age; and A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History.

Wai Chee Dimock Teaches American literature at Yale University. Her new book is Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time (forthcoming).

Peter Fritzsche Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of numerous books including Reading Berlin 1900 and Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History.

Geoffrey Galt Harpham President and Director of the National Humanities Center. His recent books include Language Alone: The Critical Fetish of Modernity and The Character of Criticism.

Robert Markley Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His most recent books are Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination and The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600–1730.

William J. Maxwell Associate Professor of English and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism between the Wars and the editor of Claude McKay's Complete Poems. He is now at work on FB Eyes: How Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African-American Modernism.

Walter Benn Michaels Professor of English at the University of Illinois in Chicago. His most recent book is The Shape of the Signifier, and he is currently at work on a book called The Beauty of a Social Problem.

Walter D. Mignolo William H. Wannamaker Professor and Director, Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, at Duke University. Recently, he has authored The Idea of Latin America and edited Double Critique: Knowledge and Scholars at Risk in the Post-Socialist World (special issue of SAQ) and Coloniality of Power and DeColonial Thinking (special issue of Cultural Studies).

Aihwa Ong Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her recent books include the award-winning Flexible Citizenship; Buddha is Hiding; Global Assemblages; and Neoliberalism as Exception.

Jahan Ramazani William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He wrote The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English and coedited the Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry.

Michael Rothberg Associate Professor of English and Director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation and co-editor, with Neil Levi, of The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings. He is currently writing a book on Holocaust memory in the age of decolonization.

Robert Rushing Author of the forthcoming Resisting Arrest: Desire and Enjoyment in the Detective Genre. He has also published on Calvino, Verne, Hitchcock, Žižek, Ovid, and the television show Monk.