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  • Contributors

Kevin Bell, kbell@albany.edu, is Associate Professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY, where he teaches in the fields of critical theory, 20th and 21st century African American literature, film and culture, and trans-Atlantic literary modernisms. The author of Ashes Taken for Fire: Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity, published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2007, he is now completing a book on black experimental literature and film.

Jody Berland, jody.berland@sympatico.ca, is Associate Professor of Humanities, York University, Toronto. She has published widely on cultural studies, Canadian communication theory, music and media, cultural studies of nature, and the cultural technologies of space. She is co-editor of several books, most recently Cultural Capital: A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions and the Value(s) of Art, McGill-Queen's University Press (2000), and the editor of Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (www.yorku.ca/topia). North of Empire is forthcoming with Duke University Press, 2009. "Cat and Mouse: Iconographies of Nature and Desire" (Cultural Studies, Spring 2008) and "Animal as Medium" are part of her current research project on virtual menageries.

Tom Cohen, tomcohen13@aol.com, the co-founder of the Institute on Critical Climate Change, is the author of Anti-Mimesis (Cambridge, 1994), Ideology and Inscription (Cambridge, 1998), and Hitchcock's Cryptonymies vol. 1 & vol. 2 (Minnesota, 2005). He is the contributing co-editor of An Atlas to Critical Climate Change (Fordham, 2010).

Jason Groves, jason.groves@yale.edu, holds an MA from the Johns Hopkins University in German Language and Literature and currently is a PhD candidate at Yale University. He has published articles on Artaud, Beckett, and Freud, and has a forthcoming chapter in An Atlas to be published by Fordham University Press under the aegis of The Institute on Critical Climate Change. Translations include a documentary film of the autonomous Schattenparker commune in Freiburg, Germany and maps for An Architektur ("Geography of the Fürth Departure Center") published in the Atlas of Radical Cartography. Currently he is working on a dissertation on stumbling.

Mike Hill, mikehill@albany.edu, is Associate Professor and Chair of English, University at Albany, SUNY. His most recent book is After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority (NYU: 2004). Hill is currently completing a book on [End Page 150] the moral and philosophical writing of Adam Smith. His book on twenty-first century war ecologies will be published by the University of Minnesota Press.

Randy Martin, randy.martin@nyu.edu, is Professor and Chair of Art and Public Policy at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. His recent books include On Your Marx: Relinking Socialism and the Left (Minnesota, 2001), Financialization of Daily Life (Temple, 2002), and An Empire of Indifference: American Warand the Financial Logic of Risk Management (Duke, 2007).

Robert P. Marzec, rmarzec@purdue.edu, is Associate Professor of English literature and postcolonial studies at Purdue University, and associate editor of Modern Fiction Studies. His book An Ecological and Postcolonial Study of Literature: from Daniel Defoe to Salman Rushdie, for which he received a National Endowment for the Humanities award, was published by Palgrave in 2007. He is currently at work on a second book project tentatively entitled Fault Lines: the Struggle for Inhabitancy in a Postcolonial World. He has published in such journals as boundary 2, rhizomes, The Journal of Commonwealth Studies and Janus Head.

Jan Mieszkowski, mieszkow@reed.edu, is Associate Professor of German and Humanities at Reed College. His book Labors of Imagination: Aesthetics and Political Economy From Kant to Althusser appeared in 2006. This article is part of a new book on aesthetics and military spectatorship since the Napoleonic Era entitled Watching War.

Angela Mitropoulos, s0metim3s@gmail.com, of Queen Mary, University of London has written on borders, class composition, wars, and race.

Warren Montag, montag@oxy.edu, teaches at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He is the author of Bodies, Masses, Power: Spinoza and his Contemporaries and co-editor of The New Spinoza.

Henry Sussman, henry.sussman@yale.edu, currently divides his time between the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University and the Department of Comparative Literature...

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