Reconstruction 8.4 (2008)

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Editors

Graham Barnfield is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of East London. [introduction] [review]

Joseph Ramsey is Assistant Professor of English at Fisher College in Boston, Massachusetts, having finished his Ph.D. at Tufts University in 2007.  His article "Guy Endore and the Ironies of Political Repression" appears in the current issue of minnesota review.  Work adapted from his dissertation, "RED PULP: Radicalism and Repression in Mid-20th Century U.S. 'Genre' Fiction," is fothcoming in Scribners' American Writers Series and in Mediations, the Journal of the Marxist Literary Group.  His film criticism has appeared in journals such as Cultural Logic and Socialism and Democracy. He can be reached at jgramsey_at_gmail.com. [introduction]

 

Contributors

Nathan Abrams is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Bangor University. He is the author of Caledonian Jews: The Small, Remote, and Isolated Jewish Communities of Scotland (McFarland: forthcoming); Jews & Sex (Nottingham: Five Leaves Press, 2008); Commentary Magazine 1945-1959: 'A journal of significant thought and opinion' (London and Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2006); Studying Film. Co-authored: Nathan Abrams, Ian Bell, Jan Udris (London: Arnold, 2001) and Containing America: Cultural Production and Consumption in Fifties America. Co-edited: Nathan Abrams, Julie Hughes (Birmingham: Birmingham University Press, 2000; London and New York: Continuum, 2006). He has just completed a manuscript entitled, Struggling for Empire: Norman Podhoretz, Commentary, and the Rise and Fall of the Neo-Cons.  [article]

Mary Elizabeth Adams is Assistant Professor of English at University of Louisiana at Monroe where she teaches American and world literatures and composition.  She holds a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies from University of Oklahoma.  Her articles have appeared in Journal of American Culture; Studies in Popular Culture; and Literature, Interpretation, Theory.  She is also a regular reviewer for World Literature Today. [article]

Dina Nashar Baroud earned her Bachelor degree in Architecture from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon and her Masters degree in Landscape Urbanism from Notre Dame University (NDU), Lebanon. Currently she is an instructor at NDU teaching courses in Basic Design and Theory and History of Art and Design. [article] 

Linda Chavers is a second-year doctoral student in the AAAS program at Harvard with a focus on English Literature. A Washington, D.C. native, she received her B.A. in Cultural Studies at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 2003. From there, she was a broke fact-checker at The Nation magazine, a very enthusiastic editorial assistant at The New York Times Magazine, and a reluctant assistant editor at Vogue Magazine. She's working on finding the connections between violence and forging spaces of agency. Her favorite author is Richard Wright. [article]

Roberto Costa has an MA in Political Sciences at the University of Genua, Italy. Since 1988, he is researcher at the market research company SWG, based in Triest. In 1994 he also joined Istat, the Italian National Institute for Statistics. In the last decade he specialised in on-line research methodologies and approaches. He can be contacted at roberto.costa@swg.it. [article]

James Keller is a Ph. D. in English and is presently the Chair of the English and Theatre Department at Eastern Kentucky University.  Keller has published four monographs: Queer [Un]Friendly Film and Television, Princes, Soldiers, and Rogues: The Politic Malcontent of Renaissance Drama, Food, Film, and Culture, and Anne Rice and Sexual Politics (with a fifth currently in press, V for Vendetta as Cultural Pastiche). He has also co-edited three collections: Almost Shakespeare, The New Queer Aesthetic on Television, Fantasy Fiction into Film (with a fourth in the editing and composition phase - South Park and Cultural Criticism). Keller has published over forty articles on a variety of topics including cultural studies, early modern literature, modern drama, queer theory, and African American literature. [article]

Tomek Kitlinski did his M. Phil. at University of Paris 7, directed by Julia Kristeva, and is a lecturer in philosophy at Maria Sk»odowska-Curie University of Lublin. He has published two Polish-language books, The Stranger Is Within Us and Love and Democracy: Reflections on the Homosexual Question in Poland (co-authored with Pawel Leszkowicz). Joe Lockard, Berkeley graduate, assistant professor of English at Arizona State University, established the Antislavery Literature Project. His book Brave New Classroom: Educational Democracy and the Internet (co-edited with Mark Pegrum) is forthcoming from Peter Lang. Stéphane Symons writes on Baudelaire, Thomas Mann, Walter Benjamin, Deleuze, Agamben, Negri, and Elvis Presley. He studied at the University of Leuven and Paris X, and was a Fulbright Scholar at the New School for Social Research; he is currently a research fellow at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research. [manifesto]

Nataša Kovačević is assistant professor of global literature and postcolonial theory at Eastern Michigan University. Her publications include the book Narrating Post/Communism: Colonial Discourse and Europe's Borderline Civilization (Routledge 2008) and essays in Modern Fiction Studies, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory and Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Studies. Her work engages with transforming postcolonial and Marxist studies in the post-communist era, especially by interrogating narratives that shape the concept of "Europe" as the European Union. [article]

Robert Lesman is assistant professor of Spanish at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses on language, literature and translation.  His research examines translation’s importance in facilitating literary exchanges between the U.S. and Latin America.  His dissertation explores the role of texts by writers from the United States in the Cuban literary journal Orígenes.  He has an article forthcoming in Hispanic Journal on the role of nostalgia in the work of Cuban poet Fina García Marruz.  He has also published an article on the Irish poet Paul Muldoon in Estudios Irlandeses. [article]

Tru Leverette is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Florida where she teaches African-American literature. Her research interests broadly include race and gender in literature and culture, and she focuses specifically on discourses of mixed race identity and interracial romance. She has published most recently in Pheobe: A Journal of Gender and Cultural Critiques, Journal of Black Studies, and African-American Review. [article]

Yolanda M. Manora is an Assistant Professor of English at The University of Alabama where she also teaches in the Department of American Studies and the Program in African American Studies.  Her scholarship focuses primarily on issues of gender, race, and subjectivity in the works of 20th/21st century women writers of color.  She has published in Women's Studies and Southern Studies, and her essay on Southern black female subjectivity and maternity in Jean Toomer's Cane will appear in a forthcoming issue of Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora. [article]

Enrico Marchetto has an MA in Communication Sciences at the University of Triest, Italy. He works as consultant about on-line communities and digital media in Italy. recently he has been also engaged as author for a national channel of the Italian television industry. At the moment he is teaching Sociology of Media at IULM University in Milan, Italy. He can be contacted at enrico.marchetto@gmail.com. [article]

Gregory Meyerson teaches critical theory, American Literatures and Advanced Composition at North Carolina A and T University. He has published articles on critical race theory,  poststructuralism, american literature, fascism and crisis, academic labor and other stuff, all from a Marxist perspective.  With Michael Roberto, he is working on It Could Happen Here:  Fascism and the Decline of Pax Americana for Pluto Press.  He coedits the Marxist online journal Cultural Logic. [article]

Enrico Maria Milič has worked and is currently working as a journalist. He holds a MA in Social Anthropology at Queen's University of Belfast, UK. His research interests are in anthropological and cultural studies and include embodiment and emotions, identity, rhetoric and power. He has published for Routledge and Berghahn. He specialised as a practitioner of the new media Italian market as co-founder and chief editor of an influential online publishing company that targets young Italian users of the internet. He can be contacted at mi@bora.la. [article]

Christian L. Pyle teaches English at Bluegrass Community and Technical College. He has contributed to the books The Robert Frost Encyclopedia (Greenwood Press, 2001) and The St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (St. James Press, 1999) and the journals Postscript, Paradigms, Postmodern Culture, and Review of Communication. [review]

N'Mah Yilla earned a Masters degree in Modern Middle East and North African Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  She also holds a Bachelors degree from Wellesley College in Middle Eastern Studies and Spanish.  N'Mah is mainly interested in race relations among Muslims in the Western World, especially the nature of interactions between North African and sub-Saharan Muslim immigrants in Spain and between African-American Muslims and immigrant Muslims in the U.S.  She is also interested in slavery and how it has shaped ideas about race and ethnicity in Muslim societies. [article]

Kevin Yuill is Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Sunderland, and author of Richard Nixon and the Rise of Affirmative Action: The Pursuit of Racial Equality in an Era of Limits (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006). [article]

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