Contributors
- Contributors
Ryan Bishop is Senior Research Fellow in English Language and Literature and American Studies at the National University of Singapore. He is coauthor with Greg Clancey of "The City as Target," in Postcolonial Urbanism: Southeast Asian Cities and Global Processes (ed. Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, and Yeo Wei Wei, 2002), and Night Market: Sexual Cultures and the Thai Economic Miracle (coauthored with Lillian S. Robinson, 1998). He has published articles on Kafka, Beckett, Edward Sapir, and knowledge production within the university.
Robert B. Brandom is Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy, and Fellow of the Center for the Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books include Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment (1994), Articulating Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism (2000), and Tales of the Mighty Dead: Historical Essays on the Metaphysics of Intentionality (2002). He is also the editor of Rorty and His Critics (2001).
Eli Friedlander is assistant professor of philosophy at Tel-Aviv University. He is author of Signs of Sense: Reading Wittgenstein's Tractatus (2000). He has also published work on Kant's Critique of Judgment and the history of analytic philosophy. He is currently at work on a book on Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker.
Gary Gutting is professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. His books include Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason, The Cambridge Companion to Foucault, Pragmatic Liberalism and the Critique of Modernity, and French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century. He is founder and editor of a new electronic book-review journal, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
Robert P. Marzec is assistant professor of eighteenth-century English literature, postcolonial studies, and contemporary criticism at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He is working on a forthcoming book-length project entitled Land and Empire, for which he received a National Endowment for the Humanities award. [End Page 185]
Daniel T. O'Hara is professor of English at Temple University. He is the author of four books and editor or coeditor of two collections of critical essays. His new book, Empire Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America, will appear early in 2003 from Duke University Press. Currently, he is working on studies of the interrelationships among religious, literary, and scientific visions of reality.
David Palumbo-Liu is professor of comparative literature and director of the Program of Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University. His most recent book, Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier (1999), is an interdisciplinary study of the formation of modern America in relation to East Asia and Asian America. Forthcoming are essays on academic writing, border art, globalization and narrative, and Jean-Luc Nancy.
Donald E. Pease is the Avalon Foundation Chair of the Humanities at Dartmouth College. The author of Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writing in Cultural Context and the editor of eight volumes, including The American Renaissance Reconsidered, Cultures of U.S. Imperialism (with Amy Kaplan), Revisionist Interventions into the American Canon, Postnational Narratives, and the forthcoming Futures of American Studies, Pease is the general editor for the New Americanists book series at Duke University Press, the founding director of the Summer Institute for American Studies at Dartmouth, and the head of Dartmouth's Liberal Studies Program. In the Hilary term of 2001, Pease served as the Visiting Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature at Oxford.
John Phillips is associate professor at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Contested Knowledge: A Guide to Critical Theory (2000) and editor, with Lyndsey Stonebridge, of Reading Melanie Klein (1998). He is editor, with Ryan Bishop and Yeo Wei Wei, of the forthcoming Postcolonial Urbanism: Southeast Asian Cities and Global Processes (2002). He has published articles on deconstruction, philosophy, urbanism, postmodernism, critical theory, and aesthetics. [End Page 186]
