Contributors
- Contributors
Samuel Amago teaches courses in contemporary Spanish literature, cinema, and culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is an associate professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. His most recent book, Unearthing Franco's Legacy: Mass Graves and the Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), coedited with Carlos Jerez-Farran, is an interdisciplinary volume dedicated to the analysis of how the country's violent authoritarian past continues to manifest itself in the cultural present. His contribution to this issue of Discourse is from "Film on Film," a book he is writing on reflexive aesthetics in contemporary Spanish and European cinemas in the global context.
Eyal Amiran is an associate professor of Comparative Literature and Film and Media Studies at University of California–Irvine and editor of the journal Postmodern Culture. He publishes on modern and contemporary fiction and electronic culture. His essay is part of a book project to understand the cultural logic of new media theory.
Carolyn Chen is an associate professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience (Princeton University Press, 2008) and coeditor of the forthcoming book Keeping the Faith: Religion, Race, and Ethnicity among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation (New York University Press). She is currently working on a project examining yoga, health, and spirituality in the United States. [End Page 268]
Joanne Hershfield is professor and chair of Women's Studies at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. She is the author of Imagining la Chica Moderna: Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917–1936 (Duke University Press, 2008), The Invention of Dolores Del Río (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), and Mexican Cinema/Mexican Woman: 1940–1950 (University of Arizona Press, 1996).
Brian R. Jacobson is a doctoral candidate in Critical Studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. He has been a Fulbright Advanced Student Fellow to France and a fellow of the Social Science Research Council's International Dissertation Research Fellowship. His dissertation, "Studios before the System: Architecture, Technology, and Early Cinema," examines the history of film studios and studio architecture in the United States and France before 1915.
Michael Jay McClure is an assistant professor of Contemporary Art and Theory at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is completing his first book manuscript, "Rematerialized: Queer Objects in Contemporary American Art."
Mary Trent is an assistant professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside, where she teaches courses in art history and visual culture studies. She is presently revising her dissertation, "Enigmatic Bachelors: Masculinity, Girlhood, and Vision in the Art of Joseph Cornell and Henry Darger" (University of California–Irvine, 2010), for publication. Her research in twentieth-century American art and visual culture also leads her to contribute to museum exhibitions and publications, including the forthcoming exhibition Chicago Needs (More) Great Artists at the DePaul University Art Museum.
Agustin Zarzosa is an assistant professor of Cinema Studies at SUNY–Purchase. He received his doctorate in Film and Television at UCLA. He is currently preparing a book manuscript on melodrama and dramatic modes. [End Page 269]
