Contributors
- Contributors
Jody Berland is a member of the Humanities faculty at York University. She is co-editor (with Shelley Hornstein) of Capital Culture: A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions and the Values of Art (McGill Queens 2000), and co-editor (with Will Straw and David Tomas) of Theory Rules: Art As Theory; Theory and Art (YYZ Artists Outlet 1996). She also is the editor of Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies.
Floyd Cheung is an assistant professor of English language and literature and of American studies at Smith College. He is also a faculty fellow at the Five College Center for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas.
David L. Clark is a professor in the Department of English at McMaster University, where he teaches courses in critical theory, continental philosophy, and the discourses of HIV/AIDS. He has twice been a visiting professor at the Center for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario. His published work ranges in subject matter from animality and ethics, to the question of addiction in Heidegger and Schelling, to media representations of the surgical separation of conjoined twins. With Stephen Barber he is co-editor of Regarding Sedgwick: Essays on Queer Culture and Critical Theory (Routledge 2002).
Aimé Ellis is an assistant professor of English at the University of Kentucky. He specializes in twentieth-century black male autobiography and is presently working on a book-length study, “If We Must Die: Racial Terror and the Formation of Black Male Subjectivities.”
Gordon Hutner is a professor of American literature at the University of Kentucky and the founding editor of the journal, American Literary History. He is at work on a new study of the twentieth-century U.S. novel, “America Reading: Fiction, Class, and Taste, 1920–1960.”
Vera M. Kutzinski is a professor of English, African American studies, and American studies at Yale University. She is author of Against the American Grain (Johns Hopkins 1987), Sugar’s Secrets: The Erotics of Cuban Nationalism (Virginia 1993), a subeditor of the three-volume ICLA History of Literature in the Caribbean (John Benjamins), and is currently at work on a study of late-twentieth-century Caribbean fiction.
Thomas Loebel is an assistant professor of English at the University of Calgary. His research explores the function of literary language at the intersection of philosophy and psychoanalysis, with interests in the constructions of justice and gender. He has recently published on morphology and masculinity in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and on ethics of the self in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth; he is currently completing a book on language as an un-American activity.
Walter D. Mignolo is William H. Wannamaker Professor of Romance Studies and Literature and director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at the John Hope Franklin Institute for Interdiscplinary Studies, Duke University. Among his recent publications are Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking (Princeton 2000) and The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization (Michigan 1995).
Justus Nieland is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at Indiana University, Bloomington, specializing in modernism and film studies. His work has appeared in Arizona Quarterly and The Velvet Light Trap, and he is currently writing a dissertation on the modernist avant-garde’s fascination with variety entertainments.
Marc Shell is the Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and of English and American Language and Literature at Harvard University. Professor Shell’s books include: The Economy of Literature (Johns Hopkins 1978); Money, Language, and Thought (Johns Hopkins 1984); The End of Kinship (Johns Hopkins 1988); Children of the Earth (Oxford 1993); Elizabeth’s Glass (Nebraska 1994); Art & Money (Chicago 1995); and Multilingual Anthology of American Literature (New York University Press 2000). “Language Wars” is the text of the lecture that Professor Shell delivered at the Borders of the Americas Conference (SUNY/Buffalo, March 23–25, 2000). Professor Shell is co-founder of the Longfellow Institute for the Study of the Non-English Languages and Literatures of the United States.
Alexander Weheliye is an assistant professor of English and African American studies at Northwestern University, where he teaches...
