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  • Contributors

Marc Bousquet is an assistant professor of English at the University of Louisville, and the founding editor of Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor (www.workplace-gsc.com). He is at work on “Information University: Rise of the Education-Management Organization.”

Charlie Eaton is a third-year undergraduate at New York University. He recently finished a term on the coordinating committee of the United Students against Sweatshops (USAS) and was the treasurer of Students for Social Equality, the NYU affiliate of USAS.

Brent Hayes Edwards is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University. His book The Practice of Diaspora: Translating Black Internationalism in Harlem and Paris is forthcoming from Harvard University Press.

Kitty Krupat is a doctoral candidate in the American studies program at New York University and a member of the NYU Graduate Student Organizing Committee–UAW. With Patrick McCreery, she is coeditor of Out Front: Building a Gay-Labor Alliance (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001). She is also a contributor to No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers, edited by Andrew Ross (New York: Verso, 1997).

Randy Martin is a professor of art, society, and public policy at New York University, where he is also associate dean of faculty and interdisciplinary programs. His latest book is On Your Marx: Relinking Socialism and the Left (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002).

Micki McGee has taught media and cultural studies at New York University, the Maryland Institute College of Art, Rutgers University, and elsewhere. Her writing has been published in Afterimage, Art and Text, and High Performance, as well as by the Centre Georges Pompidou. She is currently completing a manuscript about the culture of self-improvement and social change.

Jacqueline Stevens teaches political theory at Pomona College and is the author of Reproducing the State (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University, 1999). “Symbolic Matter” is part of a longer work, “The Human Being Project,” currently in progress.

Laura Tanenbaum is a doctoral candidate in the department of comparative literature at New York University and a member of the GSOC-UAW organizing committee.

Ellen Willis is a professor of journalism and director of cultural reporting and criticism at New York University, where she is president of the campus chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Her latest book is Don’t Think, Smile! Notes on a Decade of Denial (Boston: Beacon, 1999).

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