Contributors
- Contributors
Jaimie Baron recently received her PhD in cinema and media studies from UCLA. Her work has been published in The Velvet Light Trap, Spectator, Discourse, Eludamos, and several anthologies. She currently teaches at UCLA and Pitzer College.
Marija Cetinic is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Her dissertation was a comparative study of sadness as a characteristic mood in recent American and southeast European fiction. Her current project, "Signs of Autumn: The Aesthetics of Saturation," focuses on the concept of saturation, and on developing its implications for the relation of contemporary art and aesthetics to political economy. Her article, "Fragile Pages of Grey Ashes: Inoperative Archives in Dubravka Ugrešić's 'The Museum Of Unconditional Surrender' and David Markson's 'Wittgenstein's Mistress,'" was published in a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies on "Beyond Trauma" (April 2010).
Joshua Delpech-Ramey is visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Haverford College. His work covers issues in contemporary continental philosophy, aesthetics, and philosophy of religion. He has published work on figures such as Žižek, Adorno, Warhol, Cronenberg, Deleuze, Badiou, and Rancière in such journals as Angelaki, SubStance, Political Theology, and the Journal for Religious and Cultural Theory. His book, The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and Spiritual Ordeal, appears with Duke University Press in 2011. [End Page 359]
Aron Dunlap is a professor at Shimer College in Chicago. His work deals with connections between Christian theology and themes in psychoanalysis, film, and literature. Recent figures he has engaged are Sergius Bulgakov, David Cronenberg, and Jacques Lacan. His book, Lacan on Religion, appears with Equinox Publishing in 2012.
Alexander R. Galloway is an associate professor at New York University and author of Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization (MIT, 2004), Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture (Minnesota, 2006), and most recently The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Minnesota, 2007), cowritten with Eugene Thacker. In 2010 Galloway and Jason E. Smith cotranslated Tiqqun's "Introduction to Civil War" (Semiotext(e)). His current work focuses on theories of mediation and continental philosophy.
Timothy R. Holland is a PhD student in the critical studies program at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. His dissertation, tentatively titled "Le cinéma à venir," examines the rhetoric, images, and theories of the future in science fiction, new media, and philosophy.
Ioana Uricaru is a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the critical studies program at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. Her dissertation, "Reconsidering the Cinematic Subject in Light of Neuroscience," focused on the relationship between discourse and experience. She is collaborating with USC's Brain and Creativity Institute as a scientific associate, and her work has been published in Film Quarterly, The Velvet Light Trap, and in several anthologies. Uricaru is also an award-winning screenwriter and has directed films included in the official selections at the AFI Fest, Cannes, and Sundance film festivals.
Peter Matthews Wright is assistant professor in the Religion Department of Colorado College, where he teaches courses in Islamic studies and religion and violence. His research in the Norman O. Brown archives is part of a larger project that charts the imaginative engagements of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American intellectuals with Islam.
Catherine Zimmer is associate professor of English and Film and Screen Studies at Pace University. She has published work on film in journals ranging from Camera Obscura and GLQ to Surveillance and Society and Framework. Her current research focuses on the intersections between surveillance practices and narrative formations in cinema. [End Page 360]
