States of Rage: On Cultural Emotion and Social Change

CONTRIBUTORS

C O N T R I B U T O R S TERRY L. ALLISON is a graduate of the University of California, Berkele y and has Master's degrees from tha t campus and from U C San Diego. He is currentl y th e Collection s Libraria n a t CS U Sa n Marco s an d i s als o completing hi s doctorate i n Comparativ e Literatur e a t UCSD. Mr. Alli son i s the autho r o f severa l paper s i n librarianship, gende r studies , an d popular culture . IAN BARNAR D teache s i n th e Departmen t o f Englis h an d Comparativ e Literature, an d th e Departmen t o f Rhetori c an d Writin g Studie s a t Sa n Diego State University. His boo k Queer Race i s forthcoming fro m Ne w York University Press. JULIE BRICKMA N writes in Toronto, Ontario . WILLIAM BRIGHA M holds graduate degrees in social work and sociology , and i s currently a lecture r i n the Sociolog y progra m a t Californi a Stat e University, San Marcos. His primary are a of interest is mass media, with particular focu s o n the news media an d film. Professo r Brigham' s analy sis of filmic depiction s o f homelessness an d povert y will b e published i n an antholog y o n ideologie s i n popula r film . H e i s currentl y studyin g various connection s betwee n th e tobacc o industr y an d mas s media , including advertising and product placemen t i n films. Professor Brigha m thanks Roberta an d Caitli n for thei r patience . IX x Contributors RENEE R . CURR Y i s Associat e Professo r o f Literatur e an d Writin g a t California Stat e University , Sa n Marcos , wher e sh e teache s America n literature an d film studies . Dr . Curr y edite d Perspectives on Woody Allen, an d ha s als o authore d severa l article s o n America n women' s poetry and on film. MOSHE DAVIDOWIT Z write s on the Jewish historic experience . VANESSA FRIEDMA N i s a Ph.D. candidate a t the University o f Marylan d at Colleg e Park , wher e sh e ha s taugh t "Politica l Theory " an d "Th e Politics o f th e Family. " Sh e i s completin g he r dissertation , Over His Dead Body: Women, Violence, and Murder As Metaphor, afte r whic h she intends to pursue research on the politics of the body . CLAIRE KAHAN E teaches at SUNY-Buffalo an d write s on modern Britis h and America n fiction, psychoanalysis , an d feminis t theory . He r ne w book, Passions of the Voice, explore s th e intersectio n o f hysteri a an d narrative voice in late nineteenth-century fiction. Sh e is currently at work on a collection o f essays on mourning an d representation . DON KEEFE R is Assistant Professor o f Philosophy at Rhode Island Schoo l of Design. He has written on the philosophy of music, cultural criticism , art, an d interdisciplinar y studies . He i s currently engage d i n a "Dewey eyed " exploratio n o f th e connection s an d disconnection s betwee n aes thetics an d th e practices o f art , past an d present , fro m bot h psychologi cal and sociological points of view. D. S . LAWSON is Assistant Professor o f English at Lander College, Greenwood , South Carolina . DIANNE R . LAYDE N teache s huma n resourc e managemen t an d labo r relations a t th e Universit y o f Redland s i n Redlands , California . He r field is American Studies . Research interests include employee discipline , women an d th e workplace , workin g condition s o f immigran t workers , labor culture, and hate crime in America. SHENG-MEI M A received a Ph.D. from Indiana University and is currently Assistant Professo r o f America n Though t an d Languag e a t Michiga n Contributors x i State University . H e i s th e autho r o...