Contributors
- Contributors
Matthew Abraham is assistant professor of English at DePaul University in Chicago, where he teaches courses in rhetoric, writing, and critical theory. His publications have appeared in the Journal of Advanced Composition, Postmodern Culture, Midwest Modern Language Association Journal, and Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture, and in the collections Race and the Foundations of Knowledge: Cultural Amnesia in the Academy, edited by Joseph Young and Jana Evans Braziel, and Paradoxical Citizenship: Edward Said, edited by Silvia Nagy-Zekmi. He is completing a book manuscript entitled "Out of Bounds: Controversial Academic Scholarship and the Question of Palestine."
Mona Anis is chief editor of Al Ahram Weekly, Cairo.
Mahmoud Darwish is an internationally acclaimed poet of the Palestinian people, who lived in exile between Beirut and Paris until his 1996 return to Palestine. He has published more than twenty poetry books, including Memory for Forgetfulness. Darwish won the 2001 Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom.
Grant Farred is author of Phantom Calls: Race and the Globalization of the NBA (2006), What's My Name? Black Vernacular Intellectuals (2003) and Midfielder's Moment: Coloured Literature and Culture in Contemporary South Africa (1999). He is editor of Rethinking C. L. R James (1996). His forthcoming books include Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football and Bodies in Motion, Bodies at Rest. He is general editor of The South Atlantic Quarterly.
Stephen Howe is a professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Bristol. He is author of Empire: A Very Short Introduction (2002), Ireland and Empire: Colonial Legacies in Irish History and Culture (2000), Anticolonialism in British Politics: The Left and the End of Empire 1918-1964 (1993), Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes (1998). He is editor of Lines of Dissent: Writing from the New Statesman 1913-1988 (1988).
Abdirahman A. Hussein is a recent lecturer in English at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He is author of Edward Said: Criticism [End Page 189] and Society (2002). He is currently working on a book about the implications of Said's critical vision for Enlightenment thought.
Rob Nixon is the Rachel Carson Professor of English at the University ofWisconsin,Madison. He is author of Dreambirds: The Natural History of a Fantasy, Homelands, Harlem, and Hollywood: South African Culture and the World Beyond, London Calling: V. S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin, and a monograph on Nadine Gordimer. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Outside, Atlantic Monthly, Grand Street, The Village Voice, The Nation, Critical Inquiry, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Transition, London Review of Books, The Guardian, South Atlantic Quarterly, The Independent, and The Times Literary Supplement.
R. Radhakrishnan is professor of English, comparative literature, and Asian American studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is author of Diasporic Mediations: Between Home and Location (University of Minnesota Press, 1996), Theory in an Uneven World (2003), Between Identity and Location: The Cultural Politics of Theory (2007), and History, the Human, and the World Between (forthcoming); editor of Theory as Variation (2006); and coeditor, with Susan Koshy, of Desi Diasporas (forthcoming), and, with Kailas Baral, of Theory After Derrida (forthcoming). He is also author of a volume of poems in Tamil and translator of contemporary Tamil fiction into English. He is completing his next book-length project, "When Is the Political?"
Lecia Rosenthal is assistant professor of English at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. She is the author of essays on Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolfe, and H. G. Wells. She is completing a book-length manuscript entitled "Mourning Modernism: Literature, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Consolation."
Andrew N. Rubin is assistant professor of English literature at Georgetown University. He is the author of Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War and is coeditor of The Edward Said Reader and Adorno: A Critical Reader. He writings on twentieth-century culture and politics have appeared in journals including Alif: The Journal of Comparative Poetics, South Atlantic Quarterly, The Journal of Palestine Studies, The Nation, The New Statesman, Lingua Franca, and al-Ahram. [End Page 190] He is writing a manuscript entitled "Exiled in America: Representations of Empire in José Martí, Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt...
