Reconstruction 9.3 (2009)
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Contributors
Anthony C. Alessandrini is an assistant professor of English at Kingsborough Community College-City University of New York in Brooklyn. He is the editor of Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives, and has published articles on postcolonial literature and theory in a number of journals, including Arab Studies Journal, Cultural Studies, Diaspora, and Foucault Studies. He is also a poet whose recent work has been published in Hanging Loose, MARY Magazine, Splash of Red, and Tin House. [article]
Sarah Brouillette is an associate professor in English at Carleton University, where she teaches post-WWII British, Irish, and postcolonial literature, and topics in print culture and media studies. Her first book, Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace, was published in 2007. Her current research concerns the incorporation of the word "creativity" into private enterprise, management theory, and government policy. [review]
Jennifer Grouling Cover is a Ph.D student in the Rhetoric and Writing Program at Virginia Tech. Her research interests include writing program administration, disciplinarity and genre studies. Her book on genre and narrative in tabletop role-playing games is forthcoming with McFarland and Company, Inc. She currently teaches Composition and works as an assistant to the First-Year Composition program at Virginia Tech. [article]
Eden Grey is a poet, philosopher, artist, musician, and universal creativity enthusiast based in Miami and England. Her blog is at edengrey.blogspot.com and some of her electronic music pieces can be heard at www.myspace.com/edentata, or by clicking here. Her official website is http://edenphysics.com where she is displaying her work in all areas. [cover image]
Sandra Grey is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Cultural Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. Her main research interest is the ways in which citizens can bring about social and political change. [article]
Dr. Rebecca Evon Hawkins holds a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Currently, she teaches writing as an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Indiana, where she is also the Assistant Director of Composition and the Director of The River Bend Writing Project. Her research appears in The Writing Lab Newsletter, Praxis, The Journal of College Writing, and an edited collection on service learning from Fountainhead Press. Her short fiction has appeared in Writing from the Inside Out. [article]
Bradley
High is a student in Cultural Studies and Theatre and Film
Studies at McMaster University. His research interests are in on queer
theory and performance theory. Bradley is currently the
Artistic Director for the McMaster Summer Performance Festival which
focuses on exploring the contemporary cultural context and relevance of
classical texts using multiple performance modalities and non-normative
staging practices. [article]
Born in Hespeler, Ontario, Scott Inniss is currently completing an MA in English at the University of British Columbia. He is also a poet whose recent work has appeared in The Capilano Review, FRONT, and Vallum. Before succumbing to academia, he played drums and booked DIY tours with the technical hardcore band, The First Day. [review]
Diederik Janssen (MD, BAanthr) is an independent researcher with a current interest in the intersections of maturities, genders and sexualities. His publications traverse disciplines and address limitations of disciplinary confinements. He is co-founding and general editor of Culture, Society and Masculinities, co-founding and managing editor of Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies, and editorial board member of the International Journal of Men’s Health. [article]
Soo Kim is a doctoral candidate in the department of English at Texas A&M University, College Station. Kim has contributed to Doris Lessing Studies (2007), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature (2008), South Central Review (2009), and Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World (Ashgate Publishing, 2009). Currently, Kim is finishing up her dissertation, "Ethical Desire: Betrayal in Contemporary British Fiction." "Ethical Desire" attempts to enlarge the current paradigm of ethical literary criticism by adding the value of "bad" acts of betrayal to the realm of ethics. [article]
Tom Lavazzi's poetry and criticism appears in such journals as American Poetry Review, Postmodern Culture, Women in Performance, the South Atlantic Review, Symploke, Talisman, Midwest Quarterly, The Little Magazine, Mantis: Journal of Poetry, Criticism, Translation, Genre, Poetry Motel, Poetry New York, Post-Identity, Rhizome: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, and Sagetrieb, among others; his work has been anthologized in Finding the Ox: Buddhism and American Culture (SUNY Press, forthcoming), Dialogism and Lyric Self-Fashioning: Bakhtin and the Voices of a Genre (Pennsylvania: Susquehanna University Press), Modernism and Photography (Praeger), Synergism: An Anthology of Collaborative Poetry and Poetic Prose (Boshi Press), Carl Rakosi, Man and Poet (National Poetry Foundation), Contemporary Literary Criticism (Gale), Poetry Criticisms 42 (Gale), Home Grown (Blue House), and Jumping Pond: An Anthology of Ozark Poetry (Sand Hills Press). He has published three volumes of poetry: Stirr'd Up Everywhere (collage poem/artist's book, A Musty Bone, ’95; archived: MOMA/Franklin Furnace), Crossing Borders (Mellen, 1996), and LightsOut (Bright Hill Press, '05; BHP chapbook contest winner). A book of experimental critical performances, Off the Page: Scripts, Texts and Multimedia Projects from TEZ (a performance group he founded in 1995) is forthcoming from Parlor Press's Aesthetic Critical Inquiry series (2009). He edits Estuary: a Journal of Art and Literature and is an Associate Professor of English at CUNY-Kingsborough. For more information about Lavazzi and his critical performance group TEZ, please visit http://www.kingsborough.edu/academicDepartments/english/lavazzi2.htm or http://www.tezperformance.org. [article]
Tim Lockridge is a Ph.D. student in the Rhetoric and Writing program at Virginia Tech and a Fellow at Virginia Tech's Graduate Education Development Institute. His poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Mid-American Review, Cimarron Review, and DIAGRAM, and he has scholarly work forthcoming in the Journal of College Writing. [article]
Cyrus Manasseh is a Western Australian-based academic, writer and editor and is author of the book The Problematic of Video Art in the Museum 1968-1990 (2009). He holds a PhD from the University of Western Australia in art and philosophy and is a specialist in art and film history and critical theory. Dr. Manasseh is an associate editor for both the journals Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal and The International Journal of the Arts in Society. He has published articles in The International Journal of the Arts in Society, The Melbourne Art Journal and other academic journals and conference proceedings in the field of visual arts. [article]
Patricia Mooney Nickel is a Lecturer in the School of Social and Cultural Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. Her main research interests include critical social theory, theories of the state and civil society, and globalization. [article]
Maisha Wester is an Assistant Professor of American Culture Studies and African American Literature at Bowling Green State University; she has previously published in Callaloo and has an article titled "Torture Porn and Uneasy Feminism: Re-thinking (Wo)men in Eli Roth’s Hostel Films." Her current projects include an article on race and abjection in The Skeleton Key and a book manuscript titled Screams From Shadowed Places: African American Re-visions of American Gothic Tropes. [article]
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