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  • Contributors

Colleen Glenney Boggs is associate professor of English and women and gender studies at Dartmouth College. Her publications include the book Transnationalism and American Literature: Literary Translation 1773-1892, as well as articles in PMLA, American Literature, and Arizona Quarterly. She is currently completing a manuscript entitled "Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and the Affective Construction of the Biopolitical Subject."

Sarika Chandra is assistant professor of English at Wayne State University. She works in the areas of globalization studies, American studies, and ethnic studies. Her book, Dislocalism: The Crisis of Globalization and the Remobilizing of Americanism, is forthcoming.

Elizabeth Mazzolini is a visiting assistant professor in the English department at Virginia Tech. She is currently writing a book entitled "Mount Everest, Incorporated" and coediting another book entitled "Histories of the Dustheap."

Jakob Norberg is assistant professor of German at Duke University. His articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Arcadia, German Quarterly, Monatshefte, Modern Austrian Literature, and PMLA. He is currently at work on a book entitled "Sociability and Its Enemies: German Political Theory after 1945."

Graham Pechey was born in Durban, South Africa, and educated at the universities of Natal and Cambridge. He has published numerous essays on William Blake and his context, Mikhail Bakhtin, colonial and postcolonial writing, and (most recently) the theological bearings of literary works. After holding academic posts in English at Natal and Zambia, he lectured for twenty-seven years at the University of Hertfordshire, England. Now retired from full-time employment, he teaches English part-time at the University of Cambridge and is an associate of that university's Centre of African Studies. His Mikhail Bakhtin: The Word in the World was published in 2007.

Peter Poiana is senior lecturer in French at the University of Adelaide, Australia. His research interests include twentieth-century French [End Page 185] literature and philosophy, cultural theory, and comparative literature. He has recently published articles on Samuel Beckett's late narratives, scandal and seduction, and autobiography. His book, Great Ideas in the Western Literary Canon, coauthored with Wayne Cristaudo, was published in 2003.

Daniel Vukovich teaches theory, postcolonial, and critical China studies at the University of Hong Kong. His work has appeared in English in positions, Cultural Logic, and Science and Society, and in Chinese in Marxism and Aesthetics, Culture and Social Transformation, and P.R.C. Literature in International Perspectives. His China and Orientalism: Western Knowledge Production and the P.R.C. is forthcoming.

Molly Wallace is assistant professor of English at Queen's University in Canada. She has published essays on the work of Don DeLillo, Karen Tei Yamashita, and Octavia Butler, and is currently completing a book manuscript on the literature and culture of global risk, from atomic fall-out to the greenhouse effect. [End Page 186]

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