Contributors
- Contributors
Richard Drake is currently chair of the History Department at the University of Montana. Among his publications are Byzantium for Rome: The Politics of Nostalgia in Umbertian Italy, 1878–1900 (North Carolina,1980), The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy (Indiana, 1989), The Aldo Moro Murder Case (Harvard, 1995), and Apostles and Agitators: Italy’s Marxist Revolutionary Tradition (Harvard, 2003). He currently is working on a study of Trotskyism on the Italian left. His articles on Italian politics and culture have appeared in numerous journals such as the Journal of Modern History, Catholic Historical Review, Journal of Contemporary History, Review of Politics, Journal of the History of Ideas, Nuova Storia Contemporanea, The European Legacy, and Italian Politics and Society.
Grant Farred is Professor of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University. He is author of, among other works, What’s My Name? Black Vernacular Intellectuals (Minnesota, 2003), Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football (Temple, 2008), and Midfielder’s Moment: Coloured Literature and Culture in Contemporary South Africa (Westview, 1999). His forthcoming books include [End Page 309] The Politizen (Cornell) and Bodies in Motion, Bodies at Rest: The Event of the Black Body (Minnesota). He has served as the General Editor of the journal South Atlantic Quarterly since 2002.
Keith P. Feldman is currently a doctoral candidate in English Literature and John P. Flanagan Fellow at the University of Washington. His dissertation research investigates the divergent and contestatory articulations of racism, nationalism, and imperialism registered in U.S. cultural production engaging Israel/Palestine. He has published in MELUS, postmodern culture, and the edited collection Arab Women’s Lives Retold: Exploring Identity through Writing (Syracuse, 2007), as well as in encyclopedias of Ethnic, African American, and Postcolonial literatures.
Salah D. Hassan is associate professor and director of the Honors Program in the Department of English at Michigan State University. He is also the associate editor of CR: The New Centennial Review. He has published articles in SocialText, New Formations, Socialism and Democracy, and Research in African Literatures and recently coedited with Marcy Newman a special edition of MELUS on Arab American literature. He is currently completing a book on Palestine and postcoloniality.
Najib Hourani is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Geography at Michigan State University. His research interests include the political economy of civil conflict and urban redevelopment in postwar settings. Professor Hourani is currently working on a manuscript dealing with urban redevelopment in Beirut and Amman.
Osamah Khalil is a doctoral candidate in U.S. and Middle Eastern History at the University of California, Berkeley.
Nadia Latif is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. Her dissertation examines the intersection of kinship and belonging to place in the context of a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut. [End Page 310]
Sunaina Maira is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City (Temple, 2002) and coeditor of Youthscapes: The Popular, the National, the Global (Pennsylvania, 2004) and Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America (Asian American Writers’ Workshop, 1996), which won the American Book Award in 1997. Her forthcoming book is on South Asian Muslim immigrant youth and issues of citizenship and empire after 9/11, based on research funded by the Russell Sage Foundation.
Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman is Associate Professor of English at An Najah University, Palestine. She is author of Beyond Slash, Burn, and Poison: Transforming Breast Cancer Stories into Action (Rutgers, 2004) and editor of The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women (Rutgers, 1993). She is currently completing a manuscript entitled Disrupting Zionism: Re-Educating Americans about Palestine. She is cofounder of the Idaho Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid, the Lebanese Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid, and the Nahr el Bared Relief Campaign.
Hilton Obenzinger teaches honors and advanced writing at Stanford, and he is the recipient of the American Book Award, among other honors. His books include American Palestine: Melville, Twain and the Holy Land Mania (Princeton, 1999), This Passover Or The Next I Will Never Be in Jerusalem (Momo’s, 1980) and...
