Contributors
- Contributors
Richard Brock has published articles on a range of topics within postcolonial literature, critical theory, and image–text relations. He recently completed his PhD in English at the University of Calgary. His dissertation, “Reading Canada and the Postcolonial: An Ekphrastic Methodology,” explores postcolonial uses of the visual in Canadian literature.
Jay Dolmage is an assistant professor of English at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, where he teaches rhetoric and writing. His research interrogates rhetorical constructions of the body, bringing together disability studies and rhetorical theory. His scholarship has appeared in Rhetoric Review, Prose Studies, JAC, Disability Studies Quarterly, College English, and several edited collections.
Christian Haines is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His dissertation, “A Desire Called America: Biopolitics and Utopian Forms of Life in American Literature,” focuses on nonliberal, utopian forms of life in contemporary and mid-nineteenth-century American literature. His articles on biopolitical literary criticism are forthcoming in Angelaki and Criticism.
Ruth Jennison is an assistant professor of modern and contemporary American poetry at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. In addition to twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetics, her research interests include critical geography, Marxism, the global literatures of anticapitalism, and horror cinema. Her book-length study of Objectivism, entitled The Zukofsky Era: Modernity, Margins, and the Avant-Garde, is forthcoming.
Amy Nolan is an associate professor of English at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, where she teaches writing, film, and literature. Having published essays on Kathy Acker, Paul Auster, and the film American Psycho, she recently completed a memoir entitled “Everyone Is a Moon,” which explores her 1970s childhood fascination with horror films. [End Page 257]
Casey Shoop is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Southern California. He served as Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Huntington Library–USC Institute on California and the West (2008–10). His book project, Broken Frontiers: Postmodernism, Reaganism, and the American West, explores the relationship between Western literature and cultural politics from the 1960s through the 1980s.
Yasemin Yıldız is an assistant professor of German at the University of Illinois. She has published essays on minority discourse, literary multilingualism, and Holocaust literature. Her book, Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual Condition, is forthcoming. The present essay is taken from a new book project on the figure of the Muslim woman in contemporary European discourses.
Paul Youngquist is a professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Madness and Blake’s Myth (1989), Monstrosities: Bodies and British Romanticism (Minnesota, 2003), and Cyberfiction: After the Future (2010), as well as essays ranging from romantic to post modern culture. [End Page 258]
