Notes on Contributors
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Moneera Al-Ghadeer is Associate Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison and received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (African American, Arabic, and French literatures) from the University of California, Berkeley. Her publications include Desert Voices: Bedouin Women’s Poetry from Saudi Arabia. Currently, she is completing her book The Anxiety of the Foreign.
Lynn Z. Bloom, Distinguished Professor and Aetna (endowed) Chair of Writing at the University of Connecticut, published four books in 2008: The Seven Deadly Virtues and Other Lively Essays, Writers Without Borders, and two textbooks.
Terry Caesar’s latest book is Speaking of Animals: Essays on Dogs and Others, published by Brill.
Nicholas de Villiers is Assistant Professor of English and Film at the University of North Florida. His current book project is entitled Opacities: Life, Image, Sound in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol.
Jeffrey R. Di Leo is editor and publisher of the American Book Review and Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Houston, Victoria. His forthcoming book, Federman’s Fictions: Innovation, Theory, and the Holocaust, will be published by SUNY Press.
Gail Finney was educated at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley. She taught formerly at Harvard University and is currently Professor of Comparative Literature and German and Chair of German and Russian at the University of California, Davis.
Sean Gaston is a Senior Lecturer in English at Brunel University. His publications include Derrida and Disinterest (2005); The Impossible Mourning of Jacques Derrida (2006); Starting With Derrida: Plato, Aristotle and Hegel (2007); and Derrida, Literature and War: Absence and the Chance of Meeting (2009).
Dinda L. Gorlée ( http://www.xs4all.nl/~gorlee/ ) is a semiotician and translation theoretician living in The Hague (the Netherlands) with research interests in interarts studies. She is an associate editor of the American Book Review. Her books are Semiotics and the Problem of Translation (1994), On Translating Signs (2004), Song and Significance (2005), and a special issue of Semiotica called Vital Signs of Semio-Translation (2007).
Steven Helmling, Professor of English at the University of Delaware, is the author of The Success and Failure of Fredric Jameson (2001). His latest book, Adorno’s Poetics of Critique, is just out from Continuum.
Patrick Lee Miller is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University. His forthcoming book, from Continuum, is Becoming God: Pure Reason in Ancient Greek Philosophy. [End Page 398]
Christian Moraru, Professor of English at University of North Carolina, Greensboro, specializes in critical theory and twentieth-century American and comparative literature. His latest books include Rewriting (2001), Memorious Discourse (2005), the edited collection Postcommunism, Post-modernism, and the Global Imagination (forthcoming, fall 2009), and the monograph Cosmodernism (forthcoming, 2010).
Sharon O’Dair is professor of English and Director of the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama. She thinks and writes about Shakespeare, social theory, ecocriticism, and the profession of English studies.
Alan Singer is Professor of English at Temple University. He publishes in literary theory and aesthetics. His most recent book is Aesthetic Reason: Artworks and the Deliberative Ethos. A new book, The Self-Deceiving Muse: Knowing What One Is Doing With the Work of Art, will appear next year from Penn State University Press, in their Literature and Philosophy Series.
Amardeep Singh teaches in the English department at Lehigh University and blogs at The Valve, a literary studies weblog, as well as Sepia Mutiny, which has a South Asian focus. He is the author of Literary Secularism: Religion and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Fiction.
William V. Spanos is Distinguished Professor at Binghamton University and the founding editor of boundary 2. He is the author of many books, including The Errant Art of Moby-Dick (1995), America’s Shadow (1999), American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization (2008), and Herman Melville and the American Calling (2008). His most recent book is The Legacy of Edward W. Said (2009).
Charles M. Tung is Assistant Professor of English at Seattle University, where he teaches British and American modernisms, literary theory, and Asian American literature. He is currently working on a book called Modernist Temporalities, Minor Histories.
Robyn Warhol-Down is Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio...
