Notes on Contributors

Diaspora 8:1 1999 Notes on Contributors Ken Hirschkop is Lecturer in English Literature in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Manchester, England. He is the author of Mikhail Bakhtin: An Aesthetic for Democracy (Oxford UP, 1999); the co-editor (with David Shepherd) ??Bakhtin and Cultural Theory (Manchester UP, 1989, rpt. 1991 and 1992); and editor of a special issue of New Formations on cultural memory (winter 1996). He is also the author of more than a dozen articles on Bakhtin, cultural studies, and such topics as "Democracy and the New Technologies" (Monthly Review 1996), "Is Dialogism for Real?" (Social Text 1992), and "Dancing in the Dark: The Practice of Theory at Oxford" (News From Nowhere 1986). Rita Raley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities. She received her PhD from the University of California—Santa Barbara in 1998 with a dissertation on "Global English and the Academy." She has forthcoming articles in Romantic Praxis ("A Teleology ofLetters: Or, From a Common Source to a Common Language") and in Ariel ("Cadmus Britannicus: Language and Literature in British India"). Celia Rothenberg is a Research Reader at the Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, from which she received her PhD in Social Anthropology in 1998. She is the coauthor , with Camilla Gibb, of a forthcoming article on "Believing Women: Harari and Palestinian Women at Home and in the Diaspora " (Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs) and the author of "Diversity and Community: Palestinian Women in Toronto (Canadian Woman Studies ILes Cahiers de la Femme 1999) and "Understanding Ghada: The Multiple Meanings of an Attempted Stabbing" (MERIP 1999). Claudia Sadowski-Smith is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University. She wrote her dissertation at the University of Delaware on "Transnationalized Border Crossings" (1998). She is 117 Diaspora 8:1 1999 the author of "Post-Cold War Narratives of Nostalgia" (The Comparatist 1999) and of "Resituating 'Cultural Difference' in an Internationalized American Studies," which appeared in Through the Cultural Looking Glass: American Studies in Transcultural Perspective, edited by Hans Krabbendam and Jaap Verheul (Amsterdam: VUUP, 1999). Tim Watson is Assistant Professor ofEnglish at Montclair State College in New Jersey. His Columbia University dissertation was entitled "The Sun Also Sets: British Culture at the Ends of Empire." He is the author of half a dozen essays, including the forthcoming "Common Roots of Commonwealth Literary Studies and American Studies," Ariel: A Review of International English Literature; "Indian and Irish Unrest in Kipling's Kim," Essays and Studies (1999); and "Combating Entropy: British Decline in the American Century," Altered States: A Reader in the New World Order, ed. Phyllis Bennis and Michel Moushabeck (New York: Olive Branch P, 1993). 118 ...