Bios
- Bios
Michael Dillon is Professor of Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Lancaster University, UK. His research examines the problematization of security and war from the perspective of continental philosophy. He is especially interested in what happens to the problematization of security when security discourses and technologies take life rather than sovereign territoriality as their referent object. Since security is foundational to all understandings of the political, as such, he also researches the relation between continental thought and political theory, concentrating especially on the philosophy of the event, the politics of encounter, and, more recently, divine violence and political theology.
Brian Goldstone is a PhD candidate in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. His dissertation is tentatively entitled Prosperity Gospels: Christianity, Islam, and the Remaking of Moral Subjects in Northern Ghana, and his research interests include secularism, ethical formation, political theology, and subjectivity. He can be reached at brian.goldstone@duke.edu.
Nathan Gorelick is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His dissertation research focuses on the logic of fantasy as it pertains to an ethics of writing in 18th century French and British literatures of transgression. His primary theoretical interests include Continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, and 20th century French literary theory surrounding the aesthetics of cruelty and perversion. He is currently co-editing a special issue of Umbr(a): A Journal of the Unconscious, on Islam and Psychoanalysis. He can be reached at gorelick@buffalo.edu.
Timothy Kaufman-Osborn is the Baker Ferguson Professor of Politics and Leadership at Whitman College. He is the author of three books as well as various articles on topics including capital punishment, the discipline of political science, feminist theory, and American pragmatism. From 2001-03, he served as president of the Western Political Science Association; from 2002-06 as president of the American Civil Liberties of Washington; and he recently completed a term on the Executive Council of the American Political Science Association.
Robert Lee-Nichols is a PhD Candidate and Trudeau Doctoral Scholar in Political Philosophy at the University of Toronto where he is currently completing a dissertation relating Heidegger and Foucault on the question of freedom. Further work by him can be found in journals such as Philosophy Today, Contemporary Political Theory and Political Theory. He can be reached at robert.nichols@utoronto.ca.
Judy Rohrer currently an Affiliated Research Scholar in the Women's Studies Program at the University of California Santa Barbara. In fall 2008 she will begin a new position as an Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Texas Woman's University. She attained her PhD in 2005 from the Political Science Department at the University of Hawai'i. She has written previously about disability studies in Feminist Studies.
Robert T. Tally Jr. is an assistant professor of English at Texas State University, where he teaches American and world literature as well as criticism and theory. He has published essays on Melville, Poe, Vonnegut, American Studies, utopia, and globalization. He is currently completing a manuscript titled American Baroque: Melville and the Literary Cartography of the World System. He can be reached at robert.tally@txstate.edu.
Erica Weitzman is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at New York University, working primarily on German and Central European literature, aesthetics, and critical theory. She is currently working on her dissertation tentatively entitled, Figures of Ridicule: Formulations of the Comic in Freud, Walser, Kafka, and Roth. She can be contacted at esw240@nyu.edu.
Colin Wright is a lecturer in Critical Theory in the Department of Cultural Studies. His general areas of research interest include French Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis and Political and Postcolonial Theory. More specific interests currently include the political potential of Alain Badiou's philosophy and the history of Jamaican conflict and culture. Among recent publications are Psychoanalysis (CCP, 2008), Post-Conflict Cultures: Rituals of Representation (Zoilus, 2006, co-edited with Cristina Demaria) and 'Resurrection and Reaction in Alain Badiou: Towards an Evental Historiography' (Culture, Theory and Critique, Vol 49, No.1, 2008). He can be reached at Colin.Wright@nottingham.ac.uk.
