Contributors

164 Vol 1:1 Contributors Eva Cherniavsky is Hilen Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Washington. She is the author of That Pale Mother Rising: Sentimental Discourses and the Imitation of Motherhood in 19th -C America (Indiana University Press 1995) and of Incorporations: Race, Nation, and the Body Politics of Capital (University of Minnesota Press, 2006). Her current research addresses transformations in the norms and practices of citizenship in the context of neoliberal governance. Deborah Cohn is Associate Professor of Spanish at Indiana University-Bloomington . Her articles have appeared in American Literature, Comparative Literature Studies, CR: The New Centennial Review, Latin American Literary Review, Latin American Research Review, Mississippi Quarterly, Southern Quarterly, and elsewhere. Cohn is co-editor (with Jon Smith) of Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies (Duke UP, 2004) and author of History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction (Vanderbilt UP, 1999). She recently received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for work on a book entitled Creating the Boom¹s Reputation: The Promotion of the Boom in and by the U.S. Gaurav Desai is Chair of the Department of English at Tulane University. He is the author of Subject to Colonialism: African Self-fashioning and the Colonial Library (Duke UP, 2001) and Culture and the Law (Duke UP, 2002), and coeditor (with Supriya Nair) of Postcolonialisms: An Anthology of Cultural Theory and Criticism (Rutgers UP, 2005). Arif Dirlik is Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia; and Fellow of the Contemporary Marxism Institute of the China Center for Comparative Politics and Economics, Central Bureau of Compilation and Translation, Beijing. His most recent publications are Global Modernity: Modernity in the Age of Global Capitalism (Paradigm, 2006), and an edited volume, Pedagogies of the Global: Knowledge in the Human Interest (Paradigm, 2007). Dorothy Figueira is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia. She is currently the President of the International Comparative Literature Association, and editor of The Comparatist. Figueira is the author of Translating the Orient (SUNY P, 1990); The Exotic: A Decadent Quest (SUNY P, 1994); Aryans, Jews, Brahmins:Theorizing Authority (SUNY P, 2002); and edi- 165 Contributors Vol. 1:1 tor of Cybernetic Ghosts: Literature in the Age of Theory and Technology (Brigham Young UP, 2003). She has written extensively on exoticism, travel narratives, critical theory, and identity studies. George B. Handley is Professor of Humanities at Brigham Young University and the author of Postslavery Literatures in the Americas (U of Virginia P, 2000), New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination in Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott (U of Georgia P, 2007), and co-editor of Caribbean Literature and the Environment (U of Virginia P, 2006). Kenneth Harrow is Professor of English at Michigan State University. He was Fulbright Professor at the University of Yaounde from 1977-79, a Fulbright Research Scholar in Dakar from 1982-3, and Senior Fulbright Professor at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop in 2005-6. Harrow is the author of Thresholds of ChangeinAfricanLiterature:TheEmergenceofaTradition (Heinemann, 1993), and Less Than One and Double: A Feminist Reading of African Women’s Writing (Heinemann , 2001). In addition, he has edited numerous collections on such topics as Islam and African literature, African cinema, and women in African cinema. His forthcoming book is Postcolonial African Cinema (Indiana UP, 2007). John C. Hawley is Professor and Chair of the English Department at Santa Clara University. He is president of the U.S. chapter of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, and is associate editor of the South Asian Review. He is the author of Amitav Ghosh: An Introduction (Foundation, 2004), and has edited ten books. Three others are forthcoming, including The Postcolonial and the Global (U of Minnesota P, 2006) and India in Africa, Africa in India (Indiana UP, 2007). Mike Hill is Chair of the English Department at the University of Albany, SUNY. He is the author of After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority (New York UP, 2004), editor of Whiteness: A Critical Reader (New York UP, 1997), and co-editor (with Warren Montag) of Masses, Classes, and the...