Contributors
- Contributors
Partha Chatterjee is a professor of anthropology and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African studies at Columbia University, New York, and an honorary professor at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Among his books are Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse (University of Minnesota Press, 1986), The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (Princeton University Press, 1993), The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World (Columbia University Press, 2004), and The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power (Princeton University Press, 2012).
Clare Counihan earned her MA and PhD in English language and literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and her BA in English literature from Duke University. Her research focuses on contemporary southern African experimental literature and the relationship between narrative form and national belonging for unbeloved subjects, which she explores in her manuscript “The Distractions of Desire: Experimental Narrative and ‘the African Novel.’” She has published articles on Bessie Head, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, and Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory.
Faisal Devji is a reader in modern Indian history and a fellow of St. Antony’s College in the University of Oxford.
Yoav Di-Capua is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches modern Arab intellectual history. He is the author of Gatekeepers of the Arab Past: Historians and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt (University of California Press, 2009). He is currently at work on a new book, tentatively titled “No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Decolonization.” His research is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Texas Humanities Research Award.
Lucy Graham has a doctorate in English literature from the University of Oxford, and MA, BA Honours, and BA degrees from the university currently known as Rhodes. Her first monograph, State of Peril: Race and Rape in South African Literature, was published in 2012 by Oxford University Press. She is also the author of a number of academic papers, articles, and book chapters on South African literature and culture. Currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, she is working on a new monograph about the cultural politics of post–rainbow nation South Africa.
Neville Hoad is an associate professor of English and women’s and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality and Globalization (University of Minnesota Press, 2007) and coeditor (with Karen Martin and Graeme Reid) of Sex and Politics in South Africa: The Equality Clause / Gay and Lesbian Movement / The Anti-apartheid Struggle (Double Storey Press, 2005). He is currently working on a book project about the literary and cultural representations of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa.
Anne-Maria B. Makhulu is an associate professor of cultural anthropology and African and African American studies at Duke University. Her research interests include Africa, more specifically South Africa, cities, space, globalization, political economy, neoliberalism, and the anthropology of finance, as well as questions of aesthetics, including the literature of South Africa. Makhulu is coeditor of Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities (University of California Press, 2010) and author of Making Freedom: Apartheid, Squatter Politics, and the Struggle for Home (Duke University Press, 2015). She has published articles in Anthropological Quarterly and PMLA and served as special issue guest editor for South Atlantic Quarterly 115, no. 1, “Welfare and Precarity.”
Projit Bihari Mukharji is Martin Meyerson Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He works on the histories of science, medicine, and technology in modern Bengal. He is the author of Nationalizing the Body: The Medical Market, Print, and Daktari Medicine (Anthem Press, 2009) and Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda and Small Technologies (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming). Along with David Hardiman he has also coedited Medical Marginality in South Asia: Situating Subaltern Therapeutics (Routledge, 2012). [End Page 374]
Viren Murthy teaches transnational Asian history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and researches Chinese and Japanese intellectual history. He is the author of The Political Philosophy...
