Reconstruction 7.4 (2007)
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Contributors
Paula Cerni, MPhil, is an independent writer and can be contacted at paula_cerni@msn.com. For other publications, please visit http://360.yahoo.com/p.cerni. [essay]
Jaroslava Gajdosova is pursuing her PhD in Sociology at the New School for Social Research. Currently she is finishing her dissertation entitled "Günter Grass and the Politics of Style in the German Literary Field". In her research, she focuses on the collective memory and the (trans)formations of cultural and political identities. Her theoretical interests include poststructuralism, hermeneutics, and phenomenology in contemporary sociology. [essay]
Said Graiouid is professor of communication and cultural studies at University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco, and Academic Director of SIT Study Abroad "Morocco: Culture and Society" and "Morocco: Migration Studies" programs. He is also the Head of the Research Group on Migration and Culture and a member of the Research Unit on Culture and Development, University Mohammed V, and an associate research fellow with the Smart Lab Centre at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London Institute, and the Africa Network Group, Sterling University, UK. He has written extensively on Moroccan culture and cultural politics. His articles are published in a number of referee journals and as chapters in edited books. His research interests are currently focused on migration issues. [essay]
Tyler Kessel received his Ph.D. in English from the University at Albany and now teaches writing and literature at Hudson Valley Community College. His article "A Question of Hospitality in DeLillo's The Body Artist" is forthcoming in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. [essay]
Gene McQuillan is currently a Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College / The City University of New York. He's published numerous articles on travel writers/texts ranging from Thoreau's journals and Shelley's " Mont Blanc" to lesser-known texts by Anne LaBastille, Peter Matthiessen, Barry Lopez, Diane Ackerman, William Cronon, and Robert Kaplan. For the past seven years he's chaired sessions on "Travel and Tourism" for the annual MAPACA conference (the Mid-Atlantic Popular / American Culture Association), and in 2006 he served as President of that organization. He also recently published three articles on the humanities and the human genome project: the texts ranged from Zadie Smith's White Teeth to Eduardo Kac's "GFP Bunny" to the transcripts of George Bush's Commission on Bioethics. [review essay]
Dr. Katharyn Privett is an Assistant Professor in American Literature and Feminist Rhetorical Theory at Albany State University, a respected HBCU in Georgia. She received her Ph.D. at Auburn University in 2006. Dr. Privett's specialty areas include rhetoric, 20th century fiction, gender studies and goddess iconography. She has three children, ages 11 through 21, who have inspired both her work and her life. [essay]
Larry M. Taylor Ls an independent critic and art historian. He has written on minimalism, art and literature, skepticism, spirituality, and other strains in contemporary art. His last piece for Reconstruction was a review of Julian Dashper’s retrospective exhibit, "Midwestern Unlike You and Me "Louisiana Project" at the Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA. He is currently based in Berkeley, CA. [interview]
Since 1988 Tanya Ury has produced video, performance and lectures for exhibitions, festivals, and universities. She has made photographic and holographic art, created objects, audio texts and installation. She is also active as curator and author. Tanya Ury has shown her work extensively in: England, Ireland, Scotland, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, Canada, Taiwan, Israel and the USA. [photo essay]
Seit 1988 produziert Tanya Ury Video, Performances und Vorträge für Ausstellungen, Festivals und Universitäten. Sie hat Photoarbeiten und Hologrammen gemacht, kreiert Objekte, Audiotexten und Installation. Sie ist auch tätig als Autorin und Kuratorin. Tanya Ury hat ihre Arbeiten breit ausgestellt in: England, Irland, Schottland, den Niederlanden, Deutschland, der Schweiz, Österreich, Polen, Slowenien, Ungarn, Kanada, Taiwan, Israel und den USA. [photo essay - German]
Gary Walton is an assistant professor in the department of Literature and Language at Northern Kentucky University. His areas of interest include Modernism, Postmoderism, and the Irish Literary Renaissance. Walton received a Ph.D. from the George Washington University. (His thesis was a poststructuralist comparison of James Joyce’s Ulysses and the work of Donald Barthelme). He is currently Editor of the Journal of Kentucky Studies. He is the author of four books of poetry: The Sweetest Song (Peapod Press, 1988), Cobwebs and Chimeras (Red Dancefloor Press, 1995), Effervescent Softsell (Red Dancefloor Press, 1997), The Millennium Reel (Finishing Line Press, 2003) and one book of short fiction and humor: The Newk Phillips Papers (Red Dancefloor Press, 1995). His current work-in-progress is a comic novel about Newport, Kentucky in its heyday as a gambling Mecca called Sin City (which is based in part on a conspiracy theory about the Kennedy assassination.) His newest book of poetry Full Moon: the Melissa Moon Poems has just been published by Finishing Line Press in 2007. [essay]
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