Contributors
- Contributors
Sundeep Bisla teaches in the English Department at Auburn University. He has published articles in Cultural Critique, Genre, and Dickens Studies Annual, and is currently working on a book-length study of the works of Wilkie Collins.
Cesare Casarino is associate professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. His Modernity at Sea: Melville, Marx, Conrad in Crisis is forthcoming in the Theory Out of Bounds series of the University of Minnesota Press. His essays have been published in journals such as boundary 2, Raritan, October, Social Text, and Arizona Quarterly, among others. At present, he is working on a study of conceptions and practices of life as experiment in the literary and visual cultures of AIDS.
Stuart Elden is lecturer in politics at the University ofWarwick, England. He is author of Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault, and the Project of a Spatial History (2001) and coeditor and translator (with Eleonore Kofman and Elizabeth Lebas) of Lefebvre: Key Writings (2002). He is currently working on a project entitled The Geometry of the Political.
Fredrik Hertzberg has a Ph.D. from the poetics program at SUNY Buffalo. He is working toward the F.D. in comparative literature at Åbo Akademi University in Finland. His most recent publication (a collaboration) is Pappaboken (Dad's book, 2001). He has taught for several years in the Department of Comparative Literature at Åbo Akademi and reviews books for the main Finland-Swedish newspaper, Hufvudstadsbladet.
Anders Lundberg is a translator and critic, as well as an editor of the poetry magazine OEI. Presently, he is a doctoral student in literature at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. In 1998-1999, he was a poetics program fellow at SUNY-Buffalo.
John Matthias has published eight volumes of poetry, most recently Pages: New Poems and Cuttings (2000). Essays on his work were edited by Robert Archambeau [End Page 295] in Word Play Place (1998). With Vladeta Vuckovic, he cotranslated The Battle of Kosovo (1987, 1999), and with Goran Printz-Pahlson, the anthology Contemporary Swedish Poetry (1980). He teaches at the University of Notre Dame.
Jesper Olsson is a critic and translator, as well as an editor of the poetry magazine OEI. Currently, he is completing his doctorate at Stockholm University, where he is writing a thesis on Swedish concrete poetry. In 1998-1999, he was a poetics program fellow at SUNY-Buffalo.
Barry Shank teaches American studies in the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. He is the author of Dissonant Identities: The Rock'n'Roll Scene in Austin, Texas. In addition to his work on American music, he is completing a book-length analysis of the structures of feeling produced in a business culture as they are revealed in greeting cards.
Hortense Spillers is the F. J. Whiton Professor of English at Cornell University. She has recently completed work on a collection of her essays and spent the summer of 2001 as a guest professor for the Abteilung Kultur of the John F. Kennedy Institüt of Berlin's Freie Universität. She is currently at work on the problematics of black culture, as well as a reading of the laws of new-world slavery and their particular impact on African American women.
Lars-Hakan Svensson teaches English at the University of Lund, Sweden. He is a poet, translator, scholar, and critic. Recent translations include books by Paul Muldoon and John Matthias. He has also edited and translated the correspondence between Robert Bly and Tomas Transtromer. He has published a great number of translations of single poems by British, Irish, and American poets such as Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, A.R. Ammons, Mebdh McGuckian, and Oliver Reynolds.
Q. S. Tong is associate professor of English at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Reconstructing Romanticism: Organic Theory Revisited (1997). He has also written about critical theory, comparative literature, and cultural studies.
Cary Wolfe is professor of English at the State University of New York, Albany. He has published widely on American culture and critical theory. His books include Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the "Outside" (1998), the forthcoming study Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse...
