Contributors
- Contributors
Marcus Boon is associate professor of English at York University in Toronto, specializing in contemporary literature and cultural studies. He is the author of The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs (Harvard University Press, 2002), and recently completed a book on copying, montage, and appropriation entitled In Praise of Copying (Harvard University Press, 2002). He also wrote the introduction to Walter Benjamin’s On Hashish (Harvard University Press, 2006). He writes about music and sound for The Wire. Boon is currently editing Subduing Demons in America: The Selected Poems of John Giorno (Soft Skull, 2008) and working on a book about Asian religions and twentieth century writing. Some of his writings can be found at www.hungryhost.net .
Nahum D. Chandler is a scholar of the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, Jacques Derrida and Cecil Taylor. He lives and works in Tokyo, Japan, where he is a founding full professor in the new School of Global Studies at Tama University. For the autumn semester of 2006 he was a Distinguished [End Page 273] Visiting Professor in the Institute for African American Studies and the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University.
Marcel Cobussen studied jazz piano at the Conservatory of Rotterdam and Art and Cultural Studies at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. He now teaches music philosophy and cultural theory at Leiden University (the Netherlands) and the Orpheus Institute in Ghent (Belgium). Cobussen is coauthor of the book Dionysos danst weer: Essays over hedendaagse muziekbeleving (1996) [Dionysos Dances Again: Essays on Contemporary Music] and contributing editor of a special issue of the Dutch Journal of Music Theory on music and ethics (2002). His PhD dissertation, Deconstruction in Music (2002), was presented as an online Web site located at www.cobussen.com . He is currently writing a book on music and spirituality.
Puspa Damai teaches at the Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. Currently he is pursuing a dual PhD degree in American Culture and English at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His articles and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in The Atlantic Literary Review, Discourse, Postcolonial Text, and a number of journals in Nepal.
Tim Deines teaches at Michigan State University. He recently completed his dissertation on nineteenth-century American literature and the limits of liberalism. He has published essays in Culture Machine, Research in English and American Literature, and Discourse.
Robin M. James is assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. She has published on gender, race, and music in Philosophy Today and Philosophia Africana, and is working on a book manuscript about the normative function of embodiment and materiality in discourses of gender, race, and popular music. She is a classically-trained oboist, and presently performs with her band citation:obsolete ( www.myspace.com/citationobsolete ). [End Page 274]
Louis Kaplan is associate professor of history and theory of photography and new media in the Department of Art at the University of Toronto, and the director of the interdisciplinary Institute of Communication and Culture at the University of Toronto Mississauga ( www.utm.utoronto.ca/icc ). He is the author of American Exposures: Photography and Community in the Twentieth Century (University of Minnesota Press, 2005) and the avowedly deconstructive project Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Biographical Writings (Duke University Press, 1995), among other writings. Kaplan’s forthcoming project with the University of Minnesota Press is an edited casebook on William H. Mumler and the birth of spirit photography entitled Ghostly Developments. He has been actively engaged with questions related to postmodern Jewish culture and contemporary Jewish studies as an essayist, curator, conference organizer, and performance artist. Kaplan also serves as a member of the international advisory board of CR. His Web site is accessible at www.fineart.utoronto.ca/faculty/kaplan.html .
Anthony Sze-Fai Shiu is assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He has published essays in MELUS, The Journal of Popular Culture, and Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies. He is currently writing a manuscript about Asian American literary and social responses to American law, focusing on plenary power and immigration.
Daniel S. Traber is associate professor...
