Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
JONATHAN ARAC is Andrew Mellon Professor of English, Emeritus, at the University of Pittsburgh, where he founded and directed the Humanities Center (2008-19). He continues to serve on the Keywords Project and the boundary 2 Editorial Collective.
RIDVAN ASKIN is a Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow in North American and General Literature at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He is the author of Narrative and Becoming (2016) and the co-editor of several essay collections, most recently The Aesthetics, Poetics, and Rhetoric of Soccer (2018) and New Directions in Philosophy and Literature (2019). He is currently working on his second book, tentatively titled Transcendental Poetics and the Futures of American Romanticism.
FRIDA BECKMAN is Professor of Literature at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University, Sweden. In addition to articles on literature and theory, she has published the monographs Between Desire and Pleasure: A Deleuzian Theory of Sexuality (2013) and Culture Control Critique: Allegories of Reading the Present (2016), the critical biography Gilles Deleuze (2017), and the edited collections Deleuze and Sex (2011) and Control Culture: Discipline after Foucault and Deleuze (2018). Her book The Paranoid Chronotope: Power, Truth, Identity is forthcoming in May 2022.
CLARE BIRCHAL is Reader in Contemporary Culture at King's College London. She is the author of Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip (2006), Shareveillance: the Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data (2017), and most recently Radical Secrecy: The Ends of Transparency in Datafied America (2021). She is currently working on a 3-year AHRC grant titled "Everything is Connected," which examines what difference the internet has made to conspiracy theories.
PAUL A. BOVÉ is the author of Love's Shadow (2021) and the editor of boundary 2. He is writing a study of Henry Adams. He is studying authoritarian leaders' need for a cult of death-love in contemporary politics.
CHRISTOPHER BREU is Professor of English at Illinois State University where he teaches classes in contemporary literature and theory. He is the author of Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics (2014) and Hard-Boiled Masculinities (2005). He is also co-editor of Noir Affect (2020) and a special issue of symploke on "Materialisms." He is currently working on a theoretical monograph, In Defense of Sex.
IAN BUCHANAN is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Wollongong. He is the author of the Oxford Dictionary of Critical Theory (2018) and editor of the journal of Deleuze and Guattari Studies.
MICHAEL BUTTER is Professor of American Studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He is the author of The Nature of Conspiracy Theories (2020), co-editor, with Peter Knight, of the Handbook of Conspiracy Theories (2020) and Principal Investigator of the project "Populism and Conspiracy Theory," which is funded by the European Research Council.
ROBERT L. CASERIO, Professor Emeritus of English, Comparative Literature, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, is the author of The Cambridge Introduction to British Fiction, 1900-1950 (2019) and of two other books about the history of the novel form. He is the coeditor, with Clement Hawes, of The Cambridge History of the English Novel (2012), and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth Century English Novel (2009). He is editing a new edition of Wyndham Lewis' The Lion and the Fox (1927) for Oxford UP.
CLAIRE COLEBROOK is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She has written books and articles on contemporary European philosophy, literary history, gender studies, queer theory, visual culture and feminist philosophy. Her most recent book is Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols (2016, co-authored with Tom Cohen and J. Hillis Miller).
JEFFREY R. DI LEO is Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria. He is founder and editor of symplokē and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute. His recent books include Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory (2019), The End of American Literature: Essays from the Late Age of Print (2019), Biotheory: Life and Death under Capitalism (2020, with...
