Contributors
- Contributors
Frederick Luis Aldama is an assistant professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he teaches U.S. and British multiethnic literature, film, and theory. He has published a number of articles in such journals as Lit: Literature Interpretation, Theory, Lucero, Critical Mass, and the Journal of Narrative Life History. He is currently revising for publication two book manuscripts that explore themes of race and sexuality as they inform narrative technique in U.S. multiethnic and British postcolonial literature and film. He is also writing a critical biography on Arturo Islas titled Dancing with Ghosts.
Santiago Castro-Gómez is an assistant professor in philosophy at the Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá and a researcher at the Instituto de Estudios Sociales y Culturales, PENSAR, of the same university. His books include Crítica de la razón latinoamericana (1996), Teorías sin disciplina (1997), Pensar (en) los intersticios (1999), and La reestructuración de las ciencias sociales en América Latina (2000). He is currently working on a genealogy of social sciences and humanities in Colombia.
Gregory Dobbins is a graduate student in the English department at Duke University and is currently completing a dissertation about the interrelation between literary modernism, decolonization, and intellectual labor in Ireland during the first two decades of national independence.
Enrique Dussel teaches ethics at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He is coordinator of the Philosophy and Liberation Association (Asociación de Filosofía y Liberación). He has taught as a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt (Germany), Loyola University in Chicago, the University of Vienna, Duke University, and Harvard University. His recent publications include Etica de la liberación en la edad de la globalización y de la exclusión (1998), Posmodernidad y transmodernidad: Diálogos con la filosofía de Gianni Vattimo (1999), Etica della comunicazione ed etica della liberazione (1999), and Un Marx sconosciuto (1999). He is the subject of a new book edited by Linda Martin Alcoff and Eduardo Mendieta, Thinking from the Underside of History: Enrique Dussel’s Philosophy of Liberation (2000). [End Page 657]
Kate Jenckes is completing a doctorate in comparative literature at the University of Oregon and currently teaches at Duke University.
Edgardo Lander is professor of sociology and Latin American studies at the Venezuelan Central University in Caracas. His books include Contribución a la crítica del marxismo realmente existente: Verdad, ciencia y tecnología (1990); La ciencia y la tecnología como asuntos políticos: Límites de la democracia en la sociedad tecnológica (1994); and Neoliberalismo, sociedad civil y democracia: Ensayos sobre América Latina y Venezuela (1995). He currently heads a research project on contemporary Venezuelan political discourse.
Daniel Mato is professor of social sciences and director of the Program on Globalization, Culture, and Social Transformations at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV), where he teaches at the Center for Postdoctoral Research and in the Doctoral Program in Social Sciences. He has also been a visiting professor at several universities in Latin America and the United States. His most recent book is Crítica de la modernidad, globalización y construcción de identidades (1995), and his most recent coedited volumes are América Latina en tiempos de globalización (1996) and América Latina en tiempos de globalización II (2000).
Anibal Quijano, director of the Centro de Investigaciones Sociales and of the review Anuario Mariáteguiano in Lima, Peru, is currently teaching in the Department of Sociology at Binghamton University. He has been a visiting scholar in many universities in Latin America, the United States, and Europe. Power, knowledge, and social change are his main topics of research. He has published fourteen books—among them Modernidad, identidad y utopia (1988), El fujimorismo y el Perú (1995), and La economía popular en América Latina (1999)—as well as many articles in academic journals. [End Page 658]
