Contributors
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Sandra M. Gustafson is Professor of English and a concurrent Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her most recent book is Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic (2011). In 2014, she held an NEH grant to work on a book about politics and the American novel, from James Fenimore Cooper and Harriet Beecher Stowe through Leslie Marmon Silko and Joan Didion.
Peter Uwe Hohendahl is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. He is the author of numerous monographs, including Building a National Literature, The Case of Germany 1830–1870 (1989); Prismatic Thought: Theodor W. Adorno (1995); and The Fleeting Promise of Art: Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory Revisited (2013).
Jill Jarvis is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at Princeton University. She specializes in African and African diasporic literatures in French, English, and Arabic, with a keen interest in the translational space and poetics of the modern Maghreb. Her dissertation, Absent Witness: The Politics of Fiction in Postcolonial Algeria, explores how Algerian novelists rewrite the history of their nation’s wars as a critique of state violence.
Paul Jaussen is Assistant Professor of Literature at Lawrence Technological University in Michigan, where his research focuses on modern and contemporary poetry and poetics. His essays have appeared in Contemporary Literature, Journal of Modern Literature, and William Carlos Williams Review. He is currently finishing a book manuscript on emergence and the long poem.
Steve Light, a basketball point-guard following upon Nate Archibald, Pete Maravich, and Willie Somerset—and akin as well to Steve Nash, Chris Paul, and Earl Boykins—is also a philosopher and poet.
Julia Reinhard Lupton is Professor of English and Associate Dean for Research, School of Humanities, at the University of California–Irvine. She is the author or coauthor of four books on Shakespeare, including Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political Theology (2005) and Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life (2011). She is a Guggenheim Fellow (2012–13) and a Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America.
Davide Panagia is Associate Professor of Political Science at UCLA and coeditor of Theory & Event. His work focuses on the relationship between aesthetics and politics. His publications include The Poetics of Political Thinking (2006); [End Page 729] The Political Life of Sensation (2009); and Impressions of Hume: Cinematic Thinking and the Politics of Discontinuity (2013). His current research project on #datapolitik explores how contemporary modes of affective, political, and medial entanglement transform our political sensibilities regarding collective action and associational living.
George Shulman teaches political theory and American studies at The Gallatin School of Individualized Study in New York University. His second book, American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Politics (2008) won the David Easton Prize. His current book project is entitled Post-Mortem Effects: Genres of Crisis and the Crisis of Genre in American Political Culture.
Georgia Warnke is Distinguished Professor in the Political Science Department and Director of the Center for Ideas and Society at the University of California–Riverside. She is the author of five books including After Identity: Rethinking Race, Sex and Gender (2007). [End Page 730]
