Contributors
- Contributors
Russ Castronovo is Jean Wall Bennett Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States (2001) and Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom (1995). He is also coeditor (with Dana Nelson) of Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics (2002). The article published here draws on his work in progress, a study of the vexed relationship of aesthetics to democratic social change in America, 1877-1936.
James Der Derian is Research Professor of International Relations at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, where he directs the Information Technology,War and Peace Project (www.infopeace.org), and Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His latest book is Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network, and his articles on information technology and the military have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Quarterly, Nation, and Wired.
Mark Jones is associate professor of English at Queen's University, Ontario. His publications include The "Lucy Poems": A Case Study in Literary Knowledge (1995) and essays on Romantic poetry and poetics in boundary 2, Studies in Romanticism, PMLA, and Representations. The present essay is part of a work in progress.
Karl Kroeber is Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and Emeritus Editor of Studies in American Indian Literatures. His publications include Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind and Artistry in Native American Myths. With his brother Clifton, he recently edited Ishi in Three Centuries, and he is currently completing a study of visual narrative in popular film.
Marcia Landy is Distinguished Service Professor of English/Film Studies with a secondary appointment in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Pittsburgh. Her books include Fascism in Film: The Italian Commercial Cinema, 1929-1943; [End Page 245] Imitations of Life: A Reader on Film and Television Melodrama; British Genres: Cinema and Society, 1930–1960; Queen Christina (with Amy Villarejo); Cinematic Uses of the Past; Italian Film; and Historical Film: History and Memory in Media.
Alejandro Moreira obtained his M.A. in history at the National University of Rosario and attended the University of Geneva for postgraduate studies. He is now professor of political theory in the Arts and Humanities Faculty of Rosario.
Daniel T. O'Hara is the first Mellon Term Professor of Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and professor of English at Temple University. He is the author, editor, and coeditor of seven books, including the recent study Empire Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America (2003). He is also a member of the editorial collective and review editor of boundary 2, and review editor and member of the editorial group of the Journal of Modern Literature. Currently, he is working on a book about artistic and literary modernism, Poetries of Destitution: On the Culture of Modernism.
Donald E. Pease is the Avalon Foundation Chair of the Humanities at Dartmouth College. The author of Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writing in Cultural Context and the editor of eight volumes, including The American Renaissance Reconsidered, Cultures of United States Imperialism (with Amy Kaplan), Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon, Postnational Narratives, and, most recently, The Futures of American Studies, Pease is the general editor for the New Americanists book series at Duke University Press, the founding director of the Summer Institute for American Studies at Dartmouth, and the head of Dartmouth's Liberal Studies Program. In the Hilary term of 2001, Pease served as the Visiting Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature at Oxford.
Stanley Shostak is associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, where he teaches embryology, histology, and foundations of biology. He is the author of Embryology: An Introduction to Developmental Biology (1991), Death of Life: The Legacy of Molecular Biology (1998), Evolution of Sameness and Difference: Perspectives on the Human Genome Project (1999), and, most recently, Becoming Immortal: Combining Cloning and Stem-Cell Therapy (2002), as well as a number of journal articles and reviews on the development, asexual reproduction, and evolution of...
