Contributors
- Contributors
Daniel Balderston is professor and chair of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa. His most recent books are El deseo, Enorme cicatriz luminosa (both eXcultura), Borges, realidades y simulacros (Biblos), and Voice-Overs: Translation and Latin American Literature, coedited with Marcy Schwartz (SUNY). He is one of three general editors of the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures (Routledge).
O. Hugo Benavides is assistant professor of anthropology at Fordham University. His book on national historical production, Making Histories: Hegemony and National Identities in Ecuador, is forthcoming from the University of Texas Press; he is currently working on the role played by artists in the production of national hegemonic sentiments. He has published several articles in journals including Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Culture, Latin American Antiquity, and the Journal of Latin American Anthropology.
Julian Brash is a doctoral candidate in the CUNY graduate center’s anthropology program. He also holds a master’s degree in urban planning from Columbia University, where he studied gentrification in Harlem. He is beginning dissertation research on business politics and fiscal crisis in New York City.
Laura Briggs is associate professor of women’s studies at the University of Arizona and author of Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico (University of California Press). Her work focuses on reproduction, race, and imperialism, and she has published on science fiction, forced sterilization, and hysteria. Her research interests include eugenics, reproductive technology, and transnational and transracial adoption.
David L. Eng is associate professor of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (Duke University Press). He is also the editor, with David Kazanjian, of Loss: The Politics of Mourning (University of California Press), as well as the editor, with Alice Y. Hom, of Q&A: Queer in Asian America (Temple University Press). He is currently completing a manuscript titled “Queer Diasporas/Psychic Diasporas.”
Jeffrey Karnicky is assistant professor of English at Millersville University. He is currently revising a manuscript entitled “Programs of Life: Reading Ethics and Contemporary Literature,” which considers the institutional position of postmodern literary criticism and articulates an ethics of reading around writers including Susan Daitch, Irvine Welsh, David Foster Wallace, and Richard Powers.
Ana Teresa Ortiz is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona.
José Quiroga is professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University. He is the author of Tropics of Desire: Interventions from Queer Latino America (New York University Press) and Understanding Octavio Paz (University of South Carolina Press). His latest book, Bitter Daiquiris: Cuban Cocktails, is forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press in 2004.
