Notes on Contributors

Diaspora 5:1 1996 Notes on Contributors Terry Cochran is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the Université de Montréal, Canada. He is the author of La cultura contra el Estado (Madrid: Cátedra, 1996) and of many articles on culture, media and the state. His most recent publications are “History and the Collapse of Eternity” (boundary 2, Fall 1995) and “Les echecs automatiques de Lacan” (Les cahiers du clef, 1996). The working title of his current project is “The Modalities of Knowledge Production in the Age of Global Discursive Economies.” For many years, Cochran was Editorial Director at the University of Minnesota Press and then Director of the Wesleyan University Press. Ruth Hsu is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is the author of essays such as “History and the Postcolonial Individual in Derek Walcott s ‘Pantomime ” (Verse 1994) and “Land, Place and the Lure of Identity Narratives” in Local Voices, Ed. Debra Drexler, 1994. She is currently working on articles about Li-Young Lee and Marie Hara s Bananaheart and Other Stories. Gregory Jusdanis is Associate Professor of Modern Greek Literature at the Ohio State University in Columbus. He is the author of two books, Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture: Inventing National Literature (U Minnesota P, 1991) and the Poetics of Cavafy: Textuality, Eroticism, History (Princeton UP, 1987), and of more than a dozen articles, such as “Can Multiculturalism Disunite America?” (Thesis Eleven, 1996), “Beyond National Culture?” (boundary 2, 1995), “The Importance of Being Minor” (Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 1987) and “Is Postmodernism Possible Outside the West? The Case of Greece,” (Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 1987). Leslie Sanders is Associate Professor in the Departments of Humanities and English and Coordinator of the Writing Program at Atkinson College, York University in North York, Ontario. She is the author of The Development of Black Theater in America (LSU Press, 1988) and of many articles, most recently “Forbidden Spaces: Marlene Nourbese Philip s Map of the ‘Afrospora ” (Callaloo, in press), “‘Trailing Lineage : Maxine Tynes and George Elliott xxxxxxxxxx 163 Diaspora 5:1 1996 Clarke, Black Poets of Nova Scotia,” (Callaloo, in press) and of “White Teacher, Black Literature,” a chapter in Talking about Difference, C. James and A. Shadd, eds. (Toronto: Between the Lines Press, 1995). She has also published essays on Ed Bullins, Langston Hughes, Dionne Brand and Claire Harris, and is currently editing a volume of Langston Hughes plays as well as a collection of interviews with writers of color in Canada. Khachig Tölölyan is Professor of English at Wesleyan University , co-editor of Pynchon Notes and editor of Diaspora. He has published articles on American novels, particularly those of Thomas Pynchon, as well as on postmodernism, Armenian terrorism, and the history and structure of the Armenian diaspora. He has written, in Armenian, Spurki Mech [“In the Diaspora,” Haratch Press, Paris], and many articles on Armenian issues and topics. He is at work on a book, Stateless Power: Diasporas in the Transnational Moment and is editing a collection of articles by historians on various diasporas. Keiko Yamanaka is a Visiting Lecturer in the Asian American Studies Program of the Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies at UC-Berkeley and Research Associate of the Institute for the Study of Social Change, also at Berkeley. She has written in both Japanese and English, is sole author of “New Immigration Policy and Unskilled Foreign Workers in Japan” (Pacific Affairs, 1993) and co-author of “Earning the Model-Minority Image: Diverse Strategies of Economic Adaptation by Asian American Women” (Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1994) and “Intermarriage in the Asian American Population” (Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 1990). Her current projects include studies of circular diaspora formation by Japanese Brazilians, and of Nepalese labor migration to Japan. 164 ...