Contributors
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Karen Barad is professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She is the author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (2007) and numerous articles on physics, philosophy, science studies, poststructuralist theory, feminist theory, and queer theory. She is the co-director of the Science and Justice Graduate Training Program at UCSC.
Lawrence Buell is Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University and author of The Environmental Imagination (1995), Writing for an Endangered World (2001), and The Future of Environmental Criticism (2005). Current projects include a book-in-progress, Forms of Environmental Memory: Person, Region, Nation, Planet.
Katherine F. Chandler is a PhD student in the Rhetoric Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work considers the negotiation of landscapes in sites of environmental-political confl ict, examining how power functions in an ecological system.
Alenda Y. Chang is a doctoral candidate in the Rhetoric Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation research considers environmental representation in contemporary fi lm and digital media.
Gilles Clément, paysagiste/landscape designer, agronomic engineer, botanist, entomologist, writer, teaches at the École Nationale Supérieure du Paysage (ENSP) of Versailles. His books include Le jardin en mouve- [End Page 249] ment (1994), Le jardin planétaire (catalog of a major exhibition at La Villette, Paris, 1999), La sagesse du jardinier (2005), and Où en est l’herbe? Réfl exions sur le jardin planétaire (2005). He also has published two novels, Thomas le voyageur (1997) and La dernière pierre (1999). Clément has created many parks and gardens, including the highly acclaimed Parc André Citroën and the park of Quai Branly Museum in Paris, the gardens of the Grande Arche at La Défense, and Park Henri Matisse in Lille, as well as projects in the historic parks of Blois and Valloires. In the fall of 2010 he curated a series of seven dialogues at the Pompidou Center in Paris, “Vers un jardin planétaire: Selon Gilles Clément.”
Katrina Dodson has been an editor at Qui Parle since 2008. She is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, with a designated emphasis in Gender, Women, and Sexuality. Her dissertation, contingently titled “Proper Disproportions,” is a study of what it means to be proper to a particular context or place, as it is disrupted and reconfi gured in cross-cultural New World encounters and texts—in terms of social and poetic propriety, as well as judgments of a certain fi ttingness in landscape and bodies. This project derives in part from the work of American poets Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore and Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector.
Craig Dworkin is professor of English at The University of Utah, where he curates the digital archive Eclipse (http://english.utah.edu/eclipse). He is the author, most recently, of the poetry books Strand (2005), Parse (2008), and The Perverse Library (2010), and is the editor (with Kenneth Goldsmith) of Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (2010).
Brenda Hillman has published eight collections of poetry, the most recent of which are Cascadia (2001), Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005), and Practical Water (2009), and three chapbooks: Coffee, 3 A.M. (1982), Autumn Sojourn (1995), and The Firecage (2000). She has edited an edition of Emily Dickinson’s poetry, and, with Patricia Dienstfrey, coedited The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood (2003). Hillman is the Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California, and is also involved in nonviolent activism as a member of CodePink.
Alastair Hunt is assistant professor in the English Department at Portland State University in Oregon, where he teaches romanticism and criti- [End Page 328] cal theory. His current book project, The Romantic Rhetoric of Rights, explores the radical claim of romanticism to bear politics beyond the human. His article “The Right to Have Rights” is appearing in a forthcoming special issue of New Centennial Review edited by David Clark titled Animals . . . in Theory. Together with Matthias Rudolf he is editor...
