Contributors
- Contributors
Mark Hayward is an assistant professor in the Department of Global Communications at the American University of Paris. He has published translations from Italian and French. His research deals with contemporary Italian culture and national identity. He has published essays on Italian cultural policy, global elections, and economic discourses in popular culture.
Edgar Illas is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of Postmodern Barcelona: Ideologies of a Global City (submitted) and various articles on contemporary Catalan culture. He has also published the novel El gel de bany sobre l’esponja (Columna, 2003).
Lucas Murrey earned his doctorate from Yale University. While teaching at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany, he is currently finishing a monograph based on his dissertation “Tragic Light and Language: An Exploration of the Mystical Depths—and Limits—of Hölderlin’s ‘Second Bacchus,’” which revisits the meaning of Earth in Dionysian Greece to illuminate our time of hypertechnicity and environmental concerns.
Niels Niessen is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. He is currently working on his dissertation “A North Wind: The New Realism of the French-Walloon Cinéma du Nord.” His work has been published in Cinémas and Screen.
José María Rodríguez García is an associate professor in the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University. He has edited several collections of essays, including Literary into Cultural [End Page 131] Translation (special issue, diacritics, 2004) and Political Paz (special issue, Hispanófila, 2012). His first book, The City of Translation: Poetry and Ideology in Nineteenth-Century Colombia, published by Palgrave Macmillan, won the 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in Literature, Language, and Linguistics from the Association of American Publishers, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division.
Samuel Steinberg is an assistant professor of Spanish at Denison University. His work has been published in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, and the New Centennial Review, and is forthcoming in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. He is currently finishing a book manuscript, “Photopoetics at Tlatelolco,” on visual culture and historical thinking in Mexico. [End Page 132]
