Contributors
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Susan Cahill completed a PhD in contemporary Irish fiction at University College Dublin in 2006. She is currently employed by University College Dublin as a Postdoctoral Fellow researching a project entitled “Inventing and Re-Inventing the Irish Woman.”
Emma Hegarty completed a PhD in postmodern theory and fiction at Queen’s University Belfast in 2006. She is currently employed at Queen’s as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
Emilie Morin is a Lecturer in Modern British and Irish Drama in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. She has published articles on various aspects of Samuel Beckett’s work and is currently completing a monograph on Beckett and Irishness.
Contributors to “Waste and Abundance”
Catherine Bates is a Lecturer in Twentieth Century and Contemporary Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Leeds and the WEA in Headingley, Leeds. Her PhD extrapolated new strategies for autobiography in the work of Canadian writer Robert Kroetsch. She has published on Kroetsch and fellow Canadian writer Frank Davey. Currently, she is working on the genealogy of fictocriticism in Canada, the US and Australia, and on the figuration of waste in contemporary literature and film.
Peter Boxall is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex. His publications include Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction (Routledge, 2006); 1001 Novels You Must Read Before You Die (Quintet, 2006); Waiting for Godot and Endgame: A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism (Palgrave, 2003); Beckett/Aesthetics/Politics (Rodopi, 2000); the forthcoming Since Beckett: Contemporary Writing in the Wake of Modernism (Continuum, 2008). He is also co-editor of the Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory.
Mary Foltz is currently completing a PhD at the State University of New York at Buffalo, focusing on representations of waste in postmodern fiction. [End Page 151]
Samantha MacBride is Deputy Director for Recycling at the New York City Department of Sanitation’s Bureau of Waste Prevention, Reuse and Recycling. She is also completing a PhD in sociology at New York University, on the contradictions within the contemporary political economy of waste problems and solutions. She has published in both trade and academic journals.
Christopher Schmidt is completing a dissertation at The Graduate Center, CUNY, entitled “Waste Matters: Expenditure and Waste Management in 20th- and 21st-Century Poetics.” His poems and essays have recently appeared in Tin House, Court Green, Canadian Poetry, lapetitezine.org and YouTube. His first book of poems, The Next in Line, winner of the Slope Editions Book Prize, was published in 2008.
James Ward is Lecturer in English Literature (1660–1780) at the University of Ulster. He has published on a variety of aspects of eighteenth-century literature and culture, and is currently working on a book on Swift and a project on rubbish.
Other Contributors
Judith Adler, whose translation of Michel Serres appears in these pages, is Associate Professor of Sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Her book Artists in Offices is published by Transaction Press; her work on the social history of travel, and on ideas of wilderness, has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and Annals of Tourism Research.
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein was born in Germany, studied philosophy in Paris and received his Ph.D. from Oxford University. As a postdoctoral researcher based in Finland he researched Russian formalism and semiotics in Russia and the Baltic countries. He has also done research in Japan, on the Kyoto School and on the philosophy of Nishida Kitarô. Since 1999 he has been an Associate Researcher at the EHESS in Paris from which he received his “habilitation.” He is Assistant Professor of philosophy at Tuskegee University in Alabama. His publications include: Place and Dream: Japan and the Virtual (Rodopi, 2004); Vasily Sesemann: Experience, Formalism and the Question of Being (Rodopi, 2006); Virtual Reality: The Last Human Narrative? (Rodopi 2007); Space in Russia and Japan: A Comparative Philosophical Study (forthcoming, Lexington Press, 2008). [End Page 152]
Michel Serres of the Académie Française is a philosopher and mathematician whose prolific writings bring together the humanities and the sciences, to address the pressing issues of contemporary life. His works...
