Contributors
- Contributors
Karyn Ball is assistant professor of English at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. She has published articles on the figuration of the Final Solution in historiography, critical philosophy, and film. Ball edited a special issue of Cultural Critique devoted to the topic of trauma and its cultural aftereffects (fall 2000). She is currently working on a book project entitled The Entropics of Discourse, which analyzes figures of skepticism and disaffection in late-twentieth-century literary and cultural criticism.
Crystal Bartolovich is associate professor of English at Syracuse University. She has published a number of essays in cultural studies and early modern studies, and edited (with Neil Lazarus) a collection of essays entitled Marxism, Modernity, and Postcolonial Studies. Currently, she is completing a book on the uses of translation in early modern England.
Tita Chico is assistant professor of English at Texas Tech University and coeditor of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. She has published articles on women and the public sphere of letters, eighteenth-century technologies of privacy, and the relationship between ekphrasis and cosmetics. With the help of a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Newberry Library, Chico is completing a book-length study, Peering into the Dressing-Room: the Gender Politics of Privacy and the Satiric Mode in the Eighteenth Century.
Rebecca Dyer is assistant professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana. She has published and presented conference papers on the fiction and films of Hanif Kureishi, Beryl Gilroy, V. S. Naipaul, George Lamming, and Sam Selvon. Dyer's current research focuses on representations of London in postwar and contemporary British fiction.
Elizabeth Goodstein is assistant professor in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. Her book, Experience without Qualities: Boredom and the Democratization of Skepticism in Modernity, is [End Page 286] forthcoming. Goodstein has been awarded a Humboldt Fellowship for her next project, Georg Simmel and the Phenomenology of Culture.
Thomas O. Haakenson is a doctoral candidate in the Program in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is on a Fulbright grant for the academic year 2002-2003 to research the relationship between scientific discourses, art movements, and public knowledge in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Germany.
Craig Ireland is a SSHRCC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) postdoctoral fellow at the Université de Sherbrooke. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Appealing to Experience: Self-Identity, Late Modernity, and the Politics of Immediacy.
Matthew Lungerhausen is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Minnesota. His area of specialization is Modern Central Europe with a thematic focus on popular culture and photography. Lungerhausen's dissertation is entitled Visual Culture and Nation Building: The Case of Photography in Fin-de-Siècle Hungary.
Scott McCracken is senior lecturer in English at the University of Salford. He is coeditor of "Hating Tradition Properly: the Legacy of the Frankfurt School in Cultural Studies," and the author of Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction. McCracken is currently writing a book on masculinity and modernist prose for Manchester University Press.
John Mowitt is professor of cultural studies and comparative literature and English at the University of Minnesota. He is one of three senior editors of Cultural Critique and has published widely on the topics of theory, culture, and politics. His most recent book is Percussion: Drumming, Beating, Striking.
Eric Rauth is researching fictive voyages to the moon in French and English from the late sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. His translations include Alain Cabantous's history of impious speech in early modern Europe and Régis Debray's Transmitting Culture. Rauth is [End Page 287] interested in science and culture, the materiality of communication, and literary and intellectual history. He is currently a postdoctoral research associate with the Time Project, an interdisciplinary program based in Washington, D.C. (ERauth@msn.com). [End Page 288]
