About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Neel Ahuja is associate professor of postcolonial studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His forthcoming book is titled Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species.
Karen Barad is professor of feminist studies, philosophy, and history of consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. With a PhD in theoretical particle physics and quantum field theory, Barad held a tenured appointment in a physics department before moving into more interdisciplinary spaces. Barad is the author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (2007) and numerous articles on physics, philosophy, science studies, post-structuralist theory, and feminist theory. Barad’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Hughes Foundation, the Irvine Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Barad is codirector of the Science and Justice Graduate Training Program at UCSC.
Jayna Brown is associate professor in ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside. Her first book, Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern (2008), won Best Book awards from both the American Society for Theatre Research and the Theater Library Association. She has also published on African American race film and popular music in various journals including the Journal of Popular Music Studies, Social Text, and Women and Performance. Her book in progress, “Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds,” considers alternative and radical forms of communality and modes of being in speculative literature and music.
Mel Y. Chen is associate professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Sexual Culture. Chen’s Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (2012, Alan Bray Memorial Award) explores questions of racialization, queering, disability, and affective economies in animate and inanimate “life” and “nonlife.” Chen’s writing appears in Women’s Studies Quarterly, Discourse, Women in Performance, Australian Feminist Studies, Amerasia, and the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. Along with Jasbir K. Puar, Chen serves as series coeditor for Duke’s Anima book series. [End Page 457]
Eunjung Kim is assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Kim is a member of UW Disability Studies Initiative and is affiliated with the Centers for Visual Cultures and East Asian Studies. Kim has published articles on disability films, asexuality, humanitarian visual cultures, and intersectional minority politics in Korea.
Dana Luciano is associate professor of English at Georgetown University, where she teaches sexuality and gender studies, nineteenth-century US literatures, queer and feminist theory, and queer film. She is the author of Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America (2007), which won the Modern Language Association’s First Book Prize in 2008, and coeditor, with Ivy G. Wilson, of Unsettled States: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies (2014). Current projects include two monographs: “Time and Again: The Circuits of Spirit Photography” and “How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth Century US.”
Tavia Nyong’o teaches performance studies at New York University. The author of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (2009), Nyong’o is completing one monograph on memory and fabulation in black performance and another on sense and sensitivity in queer aesthetics.
Jeanne Vaccaro is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Gender Studies at Indiana University. She is writing a book, “Handmade: Feelings and Textures of Transgender,” about the handcrafting of bodily matter and creative and experimental forms of survival and self-determination. Jeanne’s scholarship is published in TSQ, The Transgender Studies Reader II, and Radical History Review.
Harlan Weaver is a visiting assistant professor in gender and sexuality studies at Davidson College. He received his PhD from UC Santa Cruz’s History of Consciousness Department, with a designated emphasis in feminist studies, and recently completed an NSF postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society at UC Berkeley. [End Page 458]
