Contributors
- Contributors
Jens Andermann is a lecturer in Spanish and Latin American studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. The author of Mapas de poder: Una arqueología literaria del espacio argentino (2000), he is currently working on visual forms of state consolidation in Argentina and Brazil.
Román de la Campa is a professor of Latin American and comparative literature at Stony Brook University. He also chairs the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature. His publications include many essays published in the United States, Latin America, and Europe, as well as the following recent books: Late Imperial Culture, coedited with Michael Sprinker and Ann Kaplan (1995), America Latina y sus comunidades discursivas: Literatura y cultura en la era global (1998), Latin Americanism (1999), and Cuba on My Mind: Journeys to a Severed Nation (2000). A new book, Latin, Latino, American: Split States and Global Imaginaries, will be published this year by Verso.
Licia Fiol-Matta is an assistant professor of Spanish and Latin American cultures at Barnard College. The author of A Queer Mother for the Nation: The State and Gabriela Mistral (2002), she specializes in hemispheric American literary and cultural studies; postcolonial, Hispanic Caribbean, and U. S. Latino studies; women’s and gender studies; queer theory; and critical race studies. She is coeditor of the series New Directions in Latino American Cultures (Palgrave MacMillan).
John D. French is an associate professor of history at Duke University and director of the University of North Carolina–Duke University Latin American Consortium. Coeditor of The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers (1997), French is author of The Brazilian Workers’ ABC: Class Conflict and Alliances in Modern São Paulo (1992) as well as a forthcoming study of Brazilian president Luis Inácio Lula da Silva. His Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture (University of North Carolina Press) and Globalizing Protest: The Fight for Worker Rights in World Trade will be published in 2004 by Duke University Press. [End Page 417]
Tatjana Gajic is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University. Her research deals with the issues of the problematic form(ul)ation of Spanish national identity in the modern and postmodern period, and the relationship between literature, philosophy, and politics in articulating Spanish identity.
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is an associate professor of religion at Princeton University. He is the author of Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth Century Black America (2000) and editor of Is it Nation Time? Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism (2002).
Mark Alan Healey is an assistant professor of history and international studies at the University of Mississippi. He has published on race and anthropology in Brazil and is currently working on a book about the politics of natural disaster in Latin America.
Jane Juffer is an assistant professor of English and women’s studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of At Home with Pornography: Women, Sex, and Everyday Life (1998); articles on Latino studies in Nepantla, Aztlan, and the Journal of Sport and Social Issues; articles on feminism, mothering, and cultural studies in Social Text and Cultural Studies (forthcoming); and numerous journalistic pieces about the U.S.-Mexican border.
Jacqueline Loss is an assistant professor of Latin American literature at the University of Connecticut. She is currently finishing a manuscript on critical cosmopolitanisms titled “Against the Destiny of Place: Cosmopolitas in a Globalizing World.” In addition, she coedited Cubanacán: New Short Fiction from Cuba (Northwestern University Press, forthcoming).
Jacqueline M. Martínez is an assistant professor of communication at Arizona State University. Her book, Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity: Communication and Transformation in Praxis (2000), received a Distinguished Scholarship Award in 2000 from the International and Intercultural Communication Division of the National Communication Association. [End Page 418]
Eduardo Mendieta is an associate professor of philosophy at Stony Brook University. He is the author of The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy (2001) and the editor and translator of Enrique Dussel’s Thinking from the Underside of History (1996). Most recently he edited Latin American Philosophy: Issues, Currents, and Debates (2002).
Claudia M. Milian Arias is the 2001–2003 Mellon...
