Notes on Contributors
Eric L. Ball is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at Empire State College, State University of New York. His interests include examining how people mobilize and remake literary, artistic, culinary, educational, and other traditions in order to foster socio-ecological change.
Ian Buchanan is Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University. He is the author of Fredric Jameson: Live Theory (Continuum, 2006).
Terry Caesar is formerly Professor of English at Clarion University and Professor of American Literature at Mukogawa University (Japan). He continues to teach as an adjunct in the San Antonio area, and his "Purely Academic" column appears monthly in Inside Higher Education.
William Castro is an assistant professor of Latin American and Latina/o literatures and cultures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is an inter-Americanist working on the intersections between narrative, cinema, and critical theory.
Marc Chénetier is Professor of American Literature at Paris 7-Denis Diderot, where he runs the "Observatoire de Littérature Américaine Contemporaine," and Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His Beyond Suspicion: New American Fiction since 1960 was published in 1996 by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Frank L. Cioffi is the Director of the Writing Program at Scripps College. His books include Formula Fiction (Greenwood) and The Imaginative Argument (Princeton), and he has had articles appear in Narrative, Sub-Stance, Critique, Style, LIT, and elsewhere.
Jeffrey R. Di Leo is editor and publisher of the American Book Review and Interim Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Houston-Victoria. His forthcoming book, with R. M. Berry, Fiction's Present: Situating Contemporary Narrative Innovation, will be published in the fall of 2007.
Eric Drown is Assistant Professor of Writing at The George Washington University, where he conducts research on pulp science fiction, conspiracy theory, and other discourses which prompt middle-class moral panic.
Irving Goh is currently reading contemporary French thought at the University of Cambridge. He was previously Visiting Fellow at Harvard University and Research Fellow and Research Scholar at the National University of Singapore. He has published with Cultural Politics, Theory Culture & Society, Fast Capitalism, CTheory, and Jordan Crandall's Under Fire 2. [End Page 382]
Gregory Flaxman is an assistant professor at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. The editor of The Brain is the Screen: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Cinema, he is currently completing a book on philosophy and fabulation.
Henry A. Giroux holds the Global TV Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. His books include The Giroux Reader (2006), Beyond the Spectacle of Terrorism (2006), and Stormy Weather: Katrina and the Politics of Disposability (2006).
Steven Helmling is Professor of English at the University of Delaware. His last book, The Success and Failure of Fredric Jameson, appeared from SUNY in 2001. He is currently completing a book on Adorno.
Gregg Lambert is Professor and Chair of English at Syracuse University. His most recent publications include Who's Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari? (Continuum 2006) and Revolutionnairre: Conversations in Theory (Slought Foundation 2006).
Christian Moraru is an Associate Professor of American Literature and Critical Theory at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. His latest books are Memorious Discourse: Reprise and Representation in Postmodernism (Faileigh Dickinson UP, 2005) and Rewriting: Postmodern Narrative and Cultural Critique in the Age of Cloning (SUNY P, 2001).
Jeffrey T. Nealon is Professor of English at Penn State University. His latest book is Foucault Beyond Foucault: Power and Its Intensifications Since 1984, forthcoming in 2007 from Stanford.
Gerhard Richter teaches in the Department of German and the Graduate Program in Critical Theory at the University of California, Davis. His most recent book is Thought-Images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life (Stanford University Press, 2007).
David R. Shumway is Professor of English, and Literary and Cultural Studies, and Director of Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University. His most recent book is Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy, and the Marriage Crisis.
Anne Swartz is an art historian. She is a professor...
