Contributors
- Contributors
Ian Baucom is an assistant professor of English at Duke University. His book Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity was published in 1999. He is currently at work on a new book tentatively titled “Spectres of the Atlantic: Capital, Memory, and the Novel in the Cross-Atlantic World.”
Sara Castro-Klarén is a professor of Latin American literature at Johns Hopkins University. She is currently working on a book-length manuscript titled “Cannibalism and Its Representations in Latin America: An Inquiry into the Trope of the Fragmented Body.” Her recent articles include “Monuments and Scribes: El Hablador Addresses Ethnography” in Structures of Power (1996); “Writing Subalterity: Guaman Poma and Garcilaso Inca” in Subaltern Studies in the Americas, an issue of Dispositio (1996); and “The Subject, Feminist Theory, and Latin American Texts” in Studies in Twentieth Century Literature (1996).
Roberto M. Dainotto is an assistant professor of Italian at Duke University. He has recently published the book Place in Literature: Regions, Cultures, Communities and is currently working on a book about the theoretical implications of theorizing Europe.
Fabio Durão has an M.A. from the State University of Campinas and is a graduate student in the Literature Program at Duke University. He is interested in the actuality of the Frankfurt School and the persistence of modernism.
David William Foster is chair of the Department of Languages and Literatures and Regents’ Professor of Spanish, Humanities, and Women’s studies at Arizona State University. His research interests focus on urban culture in Latin America, with emphasis on issues of gender construction and sexual identity, as well as Jewish culture. He has written extensively on Argentine narrative and theater. [End Page 457]
Greg Grandin is an assistant professor of history at Duke University. He worked with the Comisión para el Esclarecimiento Histórico. His book The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation, 1750–1954 was recently published by Duke University Press.
Ramón Grosfoguel is a professor in the Sociology Department at Boston College. He is a research associate of the Fernand Braudel Center at the State University of New York at Binghamton and of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris. He has published many articles on Caribbean migration to Western Europe and the United States and on Latin American/Caribbean development. He is coeditor of the volume Puerto Rican Jam! Beyond Nationalist and Colonialist Discourses (1997).
Gyan Prakash is a professor of history at Princeton University and a member of the Subaltern Studies Group. He is the author of Bonded Histories (1990) and has edited several volumes of essays, including After Colonialism (1995). His most recent publication is After Colonialism: Science and the Imagination of Modern India (1999).
María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo is an assistant professor in the English Department and the ethnic studies program at Brown University. Her forthcoming manuscript is titled “The Age of Development and the Colonization of the Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas.” Her recent publications include “Developmentalism’s Irresistible Seduction: Rural Subjectivity under Sandinista Agricultural Policy” in The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital, edited by David Lloyd and Lisa Lowe, and “Consuming Malcolm X: Prophecy and Performative Masculinity,” in Novel: A Forum on Fiction. [End Page 458]
Javier Sanjinés was born in La Paz, Bolivia. He holds a law degree from the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, a diploma in Latin American studies from the IHEAL-Université de Paris III, and a Ph.D. in Spanish American literature from the University of Minnesota. He taught for many years at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés and the Universidad Católica Boliviana. At present, he is an assistant professor in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He was a visiting professor at Duke University in 1996 and at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, Ecuador, in 2000. He has published the following books: Estética y carnaval (1984), Literatura contemporanea y grotesco social en Bolivia (1992), and in collaboration with Fernando Calderon, El gato que ladra (1999). [End Page 459]
