Contributors
- Contributors
ayesha abdullah is a Ph.D. candidate at the Pennsylvania State University. Her dissertation is entitled “Critiques of Finitude in Heidegger and Deleuze.” Her research interests include early Heidegger, Foucault, and Deleuze, specifically their Kantian influences, as well as the works of Immanuel Kant.
ian balfour is a professor of English at York University. He is the author of several books, including The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy, and is editor of collections on Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, human rights, and the “foreignness of film.” He has taught recently at Cornell University as the M. H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor of English and at Rice University as the Autrey Visiting Professor. He’s finishing a book on the sublime and editing a Paul de Man reader.
john e. drabinski is a professor of Black Studies in the Department of Black Studies at Amherst College. In addition to authoring three books, including most recently Levinas and the Postcolonial: Race, Nation, Other (Edinburgh), he has written over three dozen articles in French philosophy and Africana theory, and has edited book and journal issues on Fanon, Godard, Levinas, Glissant, and the question of political reconciliation. He has just completed a book-length study of Glissant’s poetics entitled Abyssal Beginnings and a translation and critical introduction to Bernabe, Chamoiseau, and Confiant’s Éloge de la créolité, and he is drafting a book entitled ‘So Unimaginable a Price’: James Baldwin and the Black Atlantic.
jonathan p. eburne is an associate professor of comparative literature [End Page 352] and English and director of graduate studies in comparative literature at the Pennsylvania State University. He is founding coeditor of ASAP/Journal, published by Johns Hopkins University Press (2016). He is the author of Surrealism and the Art of Crime (Cornell University Press, 2008) and coeditor of Paris, Modern Fiction, and the Black Atlantic (with Jeremy Braddock; Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013) and The Year’s Work in the Oddball Archive (with Judith Roof; Indiana University Press, 2016). He has also edited or coedited special issues of Modern Fiction Studies (2005), New Literary History (2011), African American Review (2009), Comparative Literature Studies (2014), and Criticism (2015). He is president of the Association for the Study of Dada and Surrealism and of ASAP: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (2014–2015). He is the series editor of the “Refiguring Modernism” book series at the Pennsylvania State University Press. He is currently working on a book called Outsider Theory.
grant farred teaches at Cornell University. His most recent book is In Motion, at Rest: The Event of the Athletic Body (University of Minnesota Press, 2014). His previous works include What’s My Name? Black Vernacular Intellectuals (University of Minnesota Press, 2004), Phantom Calls: Race and the Globalization of the NBA (Prickly Paradigm, 2006), and Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football (Temple University Press, 2008). He served as general editor of the Duke University–based journal The South Atlantic Quarterly from 2002 to 2010. His forthcoming books include Conciliation (Temple University Press) and Martin Heidegger Saved My Life (University of Minnesota Press, 2015).
jane anna gordon teaches political science and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut. She is author of Why They Couldn’t Wait: A Critique of the Black-Jewish Conflict over Community Control in Ocean Hill-Brownsville (RoutledgeFalmer, 2001) and Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau through Fanon (Fordham, 2014), and coauthor, with Lewis R. Gordon, of Of Divine Warning: Reading Disaster in the Modern Age (Paradigm Publishers, 2009). With Lewis R. Gordon, she coedited The Companion to African American Studies (Blackwell Publishers, 2006) and Not Only the Master’s Tools: African-American Studies in Theory and Practice (Paradigm Publishers, 2006); and with Neil Roberts, she coedited Creolizing Rousseau (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2015). Her recent essay “Theorizing Contemporary Practices of Enslavement: A Portrait of the Old and New” won the American Political Science Association 2012 Foundations in Political Theory Best Paper Prize and is the core of her next book project. She is the president of the Caribbean Philosophical Association.
d. c. matthew teaches in the department of Department of Philosophy at York University, where he received his [End Page...
