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Contributors JONATHAN ARAC ••• is Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and serves as a member ofthe boundary 2 editorial collective. His books include "Huckleberry Finn" asIdol and Target: The Functions ofCriticism in Our Time (997) and The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820--1860 (2005). HOM! K. BHABHA ••• is Anne F. Rothenberg Professor ofEnglish and American Literature and Language at Harvard and Director of the Harvard Humanities Center. His many published writings include NationandNarration , editor (1990), The Location ofCulture (1993), and the forthcoming volume A Measure ofDwelling. LAWRENCE BUELL • •• is Powell M. Cabot Professor ofAm.erican Literature at Harvard University. A former Guggenheim. Fellow and two -time NEH Research Fellowship recipient, he is the author of numerous books and articles on nineteenth-century literature and on environmental writing. His recent books include Writingfor an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the United States and Bryond (2001) and Emerson (2003). RUSS CASTRONOVO • •• theJean Wall Bennett Professor ofEnglish and Am.erican Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is the author of Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and th.e Public Sphere in the NineteenthCentury United States (2001) and Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies ofSlave!ry and Freedom (1995), as well as coeditor (with Dana Nelson) oflvfaterializingDemocrag: Towards aRevitalized Cultural Politics (2002). His current book project, ~~Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and the Anarchy of Culture, " historicizes aesthetics by examining the rise IOfa culturally broad commentary on sensation ' beauty, and Inass culture. WAI CHEE DIMOCK • •• is William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. She is author of a book on Melville, Empirefor Liber!J (1989), and a book on law and literature, Residues of Justice (I996), as well as coeditor ofseveral collaborative projects related to globalizatiQn: "Transnational Citizenship and the Humanities" (special issue IOfALH) , "Remapping Genre" (special issue of PMLA) , and American Literature and the Planet (2007). Her new book, Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time, will be out in the fall Qf 2006. DONALD E. PEASE • •• Avalon Foundation Chair of the Humanities and Chair of the Liberal Studies Program at Dartmouth College, is the author ofVisionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writing in Cultural Context and the editor of eight volumes, including The American Renaissance Reconsidered, Cultures of u.s. Imperialism (with Amy Kaplan), Revisionist Interventions into the American Canon, Postnational Narratives, and Futures ofAmerican Studies (with Robyn Wiegman). Pease is the recipient of numerous fellowships and grants, among them the Guggenheim, Mellon, NEH, Rockefeller, Dickey, and Hewlett. He is general editor for the book series New AInericanists at Duke University Press and founding director of a Summer Institute for American Studies at Dartmouth. JOSEPH ROACH • •• currently the Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Theater at Yale University, has chaired the Department ofPerforming Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, the Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre at Northwestern University, and the Department of Performance Studies at NYU. He is the author ofThe Plcger's Passion: Studies in the Science ofActing(I993), Cities ofthe Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance (1996), and It, which examines the strange fates of abnormally interesting people (forthcoming ). DORIS SOMMER . .. Professor of Latin American literature at Harvard University, is author of Foundational Fictions: The National Novels ofLatin America (1991), Proceedwith Caution, when engaged lzy minori!y writingin theAmericas (1999), Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education (2004), and CulturalAgenry in the Americas (2006), among other works. ...

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