Contributors
- Contributors
Manuel Asensi is professor and chair in the Department of the Theory of Languages at the University of Valencia. He also directs the Program of Independent Studies at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, and has served as visiting professor at various universities, including the University of California, Irvine and the University of Bourgogne (Dijon). He has written numerous articles and books on the theory of literature, including Literatura y filosofía (Madrid: Síntesis, 1995), the two-volume Historia de la teoría de la literatura (Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch, 1998 & 2003) and (coauthored with J. Hillis Miller), Black Holes/ J. Hillis Miller; or, Boustrophedonic Reading (Stanford 1999).
Kent L. Brintnall is a doctoral student in the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University. His general area of interest is the relationship between contemporary visual culture and theological discourses. His dissertation focuses on how images of the suffering male body and theories of masochism can be used to read the crucifixion as a denunciation of hegemonic forms of masculinity.
Santiago Colás teaches and writes on Latin American and Comparative Literature and philosophy at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he also exhibits his paintings. He is the author of Postmodernity in Latin America: The Argentine Paradigm (Duke, 1994), the book manuscript Cortázar sin certezas and of essays in CR: New Centennial Review, Angelaki, Revista de estudios hispánicos, PMLA, and Science as Culture, as well as in collected volumes devoted to a variety of topics pertaining to modern culture.
Richard Doyle's work browses the borders between information technology and the life sciences, those sites where living systems and information ecologies blur. He is author of Wetwares: Experiments in PostVital Living (Minnesota UP) and On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences (Stanford UP). Doyle currently serves as Expert, Wetwares and Human/Machine Interaction for the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). [End Page 166] He is Professor of Rhetoric and Science, Medicine, Technologies & Cultures at Pennsylvania State University.
Karmen MacKendrick is an associate professor of philosophy at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY, and is fascinated by nearly everything involving bodies. Her works include counterpleasures (SUNY, 1999), Immemorial Silence (SUNY, 2001) and Word Made Skin (Fordham, 2004), along with essays on pleasure, dance, body art, and other somewhat random subjects. She is currently at work on a project involving the intersections of memory and fragmentation.
Dennis McCort is a professor of German at Syracuse University where he teaches courses in German and Comparative Literature. He is the author of Going beyond the Pairs: The Coincidence of Opposites in German Romanticism, Zen, and Deconstruction (SUNY Press, 2001) and States of Unconsciousness in Three Tales by C. F. Meyer (Bucknell UP, 1988).
Hugh Urban is an associate professor of religious studies in the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. He is the author of several books, including The Economics of Ecstasy: Tantra, Secrecy and Power in Colonial Bengal (2001), Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion (2003), and Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism (2006). He is currently working on a comparative book on religion and secrecy entitled, Secrecy: The Adornment of Silence, the Vestment of Power.
Scott Weintraub is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University. He is currently completing his dissertation entitled, "Reading the Crisis, Crisis of Reading: Subjectivity, Ethics, and Poetics in Néstor Perlongher, Osvaldo Lamborghini, and Raúl Zurita." [End Page 67]
