Reconstruction 7.2 (2007)
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Editors
Vibha Arora is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. She pursued her doctoral studies (2000-2004) in Social Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Linacre College at the University of Oxford, UK and secured first class postgraduate degrees in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, India. She has taught Sociology at Jesus and Mary College and Hindu College of Delhi University (2005-6) and worked in the social development sector at the South Asian level. Her homepage is http://web.iitd.ac.in/~aurora/. [introduction]
Alexandra Ganser
studied English and History at the Universities of Vienna, Austria and
Trieste, Italy. Her M.A. thesis dealt with the concepts of memory and
spectrality in novels by Ken Kesey and Leslie Silko. She received a
Fulbright grant for research on her PhD-project "A Road of
Her Own: American Women's Road Literature, 1970-2000" at the University
of Oklahoma at Norman, where she was also a lecturer in German. She is
assistant professor in English and a member of the doctoral program "Cultural Hermeneutics: Reflections of Difference and Transdifference,"
sponsored by the German federal research fund (DFG), at the University
of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Her interests include gender
studies, space and mobility studies, Native American Studies, and
ecocriticism. Her website, including a list of publications, can be
found at
http://www.anglistik.phil.uni-erlangen.de/institut/personen/ameriklitkult/ganser/ganser.php. [introduction]
Contributors
Rob Baum's research publications include Female Absence: Women, Theatre and Other Metaphors (Peter Lang, 2003) and journal articles on Palestinian ritual, dance, race/gender issues and identity politics; Rob's current book project concerns the influence of the Shoah on Jewish identity. Rob performs in improvisational movement, circus and theatre, and trains disabled practitioners. Her feminist plays feature strong, desirable roles for women: Every Woman’s War premiered in Singapore, 2006. Rob chairs the Centre for Drama and Theatre Studies at Monash University and has a clinical practice in dance movement therapy. [essay]
Brian Black is a landscape and environmental historian who teaches environmental studies and history at Penn State Altoona. He is the author of the prize-winning PETROLIA: the Landscape of America's First Oil Boom (Hopkins) and is currently completing Contesting Gettysburg, which is a landscape history of the Gettysburg National Military Park. Black writes widely on issues relating to energy and the environment. [essay]
Amanda Boetzkes is a Faculty Lecturer in the Department of Art History and Communications Studies at McGill University. Her current research focuses on contemporary art, phenomenology and ecological ethics. She recently completed her PhD dissertation, Beyond Perception: The Ethics of Contemporary Earth Art (2006), which theorizes the aesthetic strategies and ethical implications of artworks by Jackie Brookner, Chris Drury, Andy Goldsworthy, Ana Mendieta, and Robert Smithson. Boetzkes is a member of the Quebec-based research institute, the Centre de Recherche sur Intermédialité. She is also a co-investigator in the interdisciplinary research project The Culture of Cities based out of Montreal, Toronto, Berlin and Dublin. She has two forthcoming essays to be published in conjunction with The Culture of Cities project: the first entitled "Seeing Double: Uncanny Effects of Window Displays," and the second, "The Ephemeral Stage at Lionel Groulx Metro Station." [essay]
Chia-ju Chang is an assistant professor of Chinese at Brooklyn College, where she teaches courses on Chinese language, literature and culture. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University. Her interests include ecocriticism, ecofeminism, Zen philosophy and Chinese cinema. She is currently working on developing Zen Buddhist concepts of "dangxia" (momentariness) and the interconnectedness between the human and the nonhuman as an alternative mode for ethics of care and egalitarianism. [essay]
Casey Clabough's forthcoming book, The Warrior's Path: Reflections Along an Ancient Route (University of Tennessee Press), recounts his foot journey from western Maryland to the Smoky Mountains following the route used by his ancestors at the close of the eighteenth century. He teaches at Lynchburg College and serves as literature editor for the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities' Encyclopedia Virginia. [essay]
After doing community development work for seventeen years in Salford and Rochdale, UK, Chris Drinkwater re-entered higher education and was awarded a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies for his thesis, Ecology and Postmodernity (University of Leeds 1995). His doctoral thesis and current main research interests relate to the intersections of ethics, cultural theory and environmental philosophy. Chris Drinkwater is employed part-time as a support-worker for people with learning disabilities. [essay]
Bernd Ganser holds a diploma in graphic arts and design and is a freelance graphics designer, artist, and DJ based in Vienna, Austria. [graphic]
Gayle Goldstick is a doctoral candidate and an English lecturer at Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. [essay]
Phylis Johnson, Ph.D., is an associate professor of radio and sound studies at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. She has published/presented extensively on sound culture, digital media and diversity issues, and has more than 25 years of experience in radio broadcasting and production. She has recently presented work in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Scarborough, Vancouver, and regularly at the New Media Consortium's conference series, with topics ranging from social computing, gaming, and media literacy. She recorded at Walden's Pond in Concord, Massachusetts in Fall 2005, and remains intrigued by Thoreau's contributions to sound culture. She is an avid blogger: http://sonicwalden.blogspot.com. [essay]
Uwe Küchler studied English and American Studies, French and Sociology at Berlin's Humboldt-Universität, the University of London's Goldsmiths' College and Georgetown University in Washington DC. He received his M.A. in 2001. He has worked in the publishing house Berlin Verlag and for the Literary Scouting Agency Maria B. Campbell Associates in New York City. Between 2001 and 2005, he was a Hans-Böckler-scholar and member of the Postgraduate College Knowledge Management and Self-Organization in the Context of University Teaching and Learning Processes ("Wissensmanagement und Selbstorganisation in hochschulischen Lehr-Lernprozessen") at the Universität Dortmund. In his dissertation he pursued questions of intercultural learning and teaching in the context of internationalization in higher education. In 2006, Küchler has worked as a program coordinator at the Carl-Schurz-Haus/German-American Institute e.V. in Freiburg (Breisgau), where he organized teachers' trainings and lecture series. In October 2006, Küchler has joined the team of Angewandte Anglistik und Amerikanistik/Applied Anglo-American Studies (AAA) at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. [essay]
Lori M. Martindale teaches World Literature, British Literature and Composition Studies in Washington at Whatcom CC, and is an author of essays, poetry and fiction; currently, her poems are published in the Czech Republic. [essay]
Mary Newell, Ph. D. is an Assistant Professor and the Director of First-Year Writing at Centenary College in New Jersey. Her essay, "Embodied Mutuality: Reconnecting to Environment and Self in Terry Tempest Williams's An Unspoken Hunger," was published in Surveying the Literary Landscapes of Terry Tempest Williams: New Critical Essays, 2003. She has presented on Emily Dickinson at several conferences including the MLA, and on Adrienne Rich and Margaret Atwood. She received her doctorate from Fordham University in American Literature with a specialty in ecocritics, the study of literature through an ecological lens. Dr. Newell also holds an MA from Teachers’ College in Biobehavioral Studies and another MA from Columbia University English Department. [essay]
Stephanie Posthumus teaches 19th and 20th Century French Literature at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She is currently constructing a French "écocritique" on the theoretical basis of political ecologists' work Bruno Latour, Edgar Morin and Michel Serres. She has most recently published articles in Dalhousie French Studies on the intersection of structuralism and ecologism in French author Michel Tournier's work and in Culture and the State on the subject of dialogues taking place between ecology and technology. [essay]
Dr. Catherine M. Roach is an Associate Professor in New College at The University of Alabama, where she is also the Adjunct faculty in Women's Studies. She received her Ph.D. in 1998 from Harvard University and is the author of Mother/Nature: Popular Culture and Environmental Ethics (Indiana University Press, 2003). She works in the area of gender, ethics, and popular culture. [essay]
Don Romesburg is an Adjunct Professor of gender studies and history at Sonoma State University. He holds a Ph.D. in History and a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender and Sexuality from UC Berkeley. He is developing his first academic monograph, entitled Arrested Development: Homosexuality, Gender, and American Adolescence, 1890-1930, as well as a biography of Ray Bourbon. His article "Holy Fratrimony: Male Bonding and the New Homosociality" appeared in BitchFest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2006). [essay]
Rosemarie Rowley has a background in Irish and English literature, philosophy and psychology. She has published five books of poetry; "The Sea of Affliction" (1987), one of the first works in eco-feminism, can be accessed and downloaded from the Irish Literary Revival website, http://www.irishliteraryrevival.com/rosemarierowley.html. Rosemarie Rowley has won the Epic award in the Scottish International Poetry Competition, four times. Her most recent books are Hot Cinquefoil Star (2002) and In Memory of Her (2004) both published by Rowan Tree Press, Dublin. [essay]
Anand Silodia is a postgraduate computer science and engineering student at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India. He likes dancing and creative writing. He is an avid blogger: http://conteur.blogspot.com. [essay]
Lisa Uddin is a doctoral candidate in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester, New York and received an M.A. in Media Studies from Concordia University, Montreal. Her research interests include the representation of animals, public culture, and popular science, and she has published in Parallax, Invisible Culture and Topia (forthcoming). Her dissertation examines the representation of endangered species in U.S. zoos of the 1960's and 1970's. [essay]
Sabine Wilke is Professor of German and Chair of the Department of Germanics at the University of Washington (UW). She received her PhD in 1986 from the University of Mainz and taught at Reed College, the University of California/Davis, and Stanford before joining UW. Her research and teaching interests includes critical theory, feminism, cultural studies, modern German literature, and the German colonial imagination. Her most recent book focuses on masochism as the primary framework for the German involvement with colonial Africa (Stauffenburg 2006). [essay]
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