Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Christopher Baker is Research Fellow, Asia-Pacific Centre for Social Investment and Philanthropy, Faculty of Business and Enterprise, Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. Prior to becoming a researcher, he spent the majority of his career working in human resources in large organizations across the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. He completed his PhD in 2010, and his current research interests include charitable giving from personal estates, diaspora giving patterns, and high-net-worth philanthropy.
Simone Battiston is Cassamarca Senior Lecturer in Italian at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He is a history graduate from the University of Trieste, Italy, and completed his PhD at La Trobe University in 2004; he has published widely on the issues of Italian expatriate voting, history and memory of mosaicists and migrant workers, Italian political parties abroad, and migration and trade. He has authored or co-authored a number of books, including Immigrants Turned Activists (Troubador, 2012), Diaspora Parliaments (with Bruno Mascitelli and Rory Steele; Connor Court, 2010), and The Italian Expatriate Vote in Australia (with Bruno Mascitelli; Connor Court, 2008).
Michael Berkowitz is Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, University College London, and editor of Jewish Historical Studies. He is co-editor, with Avinoam Patt, of "We Are Here": New Approaches to the History of Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany (Wayne State UP, 2010) and author of The Crime of My Very Existence: Nazism and the Myth of Jewish Criminality (U of California P, 2007). Earlier books include Western Jewry and the Zionist Project, 1914-1933 (Cambridge UP, 1997) and Zionist Culture and West European Jewry before the First World War (Cambridge UP, 1993; U of North Carolina P, 1997). He is also the author of many articles, such as "Emma Goldman's Radical Trajectory: A Resilient 'Litvak' Legacy?" (Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 2012) and "'Jews in Photography': Conceiving a Field in the Papers of Peter Pollack" (Photography & Culture, 2011). His current research on the Jewish engagement with photography has been supported by the Ransom Center of the University of Texas, the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles), and the British Society for the History of Science. [End Page 441]
Alistair Fox is Professor of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His fields of expertise include Early Modern English literature, contemporary New Zealand literature and culture, postcolonial literature, and theory of literary and cinematic representation. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of many books, including Thomas More: History and Providence (Yale UP, 1982); Reassessing the Henrician Age: Humanism, Politics, and Reform, 1500-1550 (with John Guy; Blackwell, 1986); Politics and Literature in the Reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII (Blackwell, 1989); Utopia: An Elusive Vision (Twayne, 1993); The Ship of Dreams: Masculinity in Contemporary New Zealand Fiction (U of Otago P, 2008); and New Zealand Cinema: Interpreting the Past (Intellect, 2011). He has recently completed a book titled Jane Campion's Personal Cinema: Authorship as Self-Experience, and is currently involved in research projects titled "National Identity and Cultural Hybridity in New Zealand" and "A Typology of Hybridity in Literature."
John Marx is Professor of English at the University of California—Davis. He is the author of two books: Geopolitics and the Anglophone Novel, 1890-2011 (Cambridge UP, 2012) and The Modernist Novel and the Decline of Empire (Cambridge UP, 2005, 2009). His numerous articles and book chapters include "The Historical Novel after Lukács," in George Lukács: The Fundamental Dissonance of Existence (Continuum, 2011); "Literature and Governmentality" (Literature Compass, 2011); "Failed-State Fiction" (Contemporary Literature, 2008); "The Feminization of Globalization" (Cultural Critique, 2006); and "Postcolonial Literature and the Western Literary Canon," in The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies (Cambridge UP, 2004). His current research focuses on contemporary mass media, especially novels. He is writing one book with the provisional title After the Urban Revolution, and another, with Mark Cooper, tentatively entitled Humanities after Hollywood—a reappraisal of twentieth-century humanities disciplines. Marx is an editor of the journal Contemporary Literature.
Bruno Mascitelli is Associate Dean of International Studies at the Faculty of Business and Enterprise, Swinburne University of Technology...
