Reconstruction 10.4 (2010)
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Contributors
Joseph Bowling is a graduate student at Winthrop University with an eclectic array of scholarly interests that range from English Early Modern to the American postmodern literature, the interaction between technology, science, and culture, classical and contemporary rhetorics, and the cultural use of narrative to form national identities. He is also working on a paper for publication that reevaluates the rhetorical canon of memory within internet culture using posthumanist theories. [article]
Baylee Brits is a graduate student at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis in the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Her current academic work broadly revolves around attention, conceptualized as a key biopolitical intersection between economics, media and (neuro-)biology. [article]
James Clinton received his Ph.D. at Purdue University and currently works as a chemical engineer in Oak Ridge, TN. Other than his Ph.D. thesis and secret government documents, this is his first publication. More commentary on his article may be found at: sites.google.com/site/jamesherbertclinton. [article]
Cécile Coquet-Mokoko is an Associate Professor of African American and American Studies at the Université François Rabelais of Tours, France. Her research focuses on African American religious traditions, oratory, and oral literature. From Spring 2009 through Spring 2010, she taught African American Studies at The University of Alabama as a visiting faculty member, pursuing research on the evolution of racial relations in the Deep South since the election of President Obama. [article]
Rob Cover is senior lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide, researching and publishing in the areas of media and identity, queer theory and cultural studies. [article]
Olivia Donaldson is a Ph.D. Candidate in French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is completing her dissertation, Bordering Bodies, Migrating Selves: A Geo-Textual Exploration of Sex, Skin and Speech in Contemporary Francophone Life Stories, as a doctoral fellow at UW-Madison’s Institute for Research in the Humanities. Her research puts theories of migration and diaspora into dialogue with literature and film from the Francophone diaspora. She has taught courses in French and Gender & Women’s Studies at UW-Madison and Virginia Tech, as well as English courses in Bénin, where she was a Peace Corps volunteer.. [article]
Mike S. Dubose received his Ph.D. in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University. His scholarship focuses on manifestations of control, authority, and complexity in television, graphic fiction, and other media. He is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at The University of Toledo. [article]
Janelle Dy, the photographer of this image she purchased from an unknown Seattle street artist, is a freshman at Santa Clara University in California. [article]
Farhang Erfani is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at American University in Washington, D.C. His teaching and research are focused on democratic theory, globalization, exile, existentialism and aesthetics, and the philosophy of film. He is a Research Associate with Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth South Africa. [article]
Barie Fez-Barringten is an architect, philosopher, writer, artist, project manager and teacher. He is one of the world’s foremost advocates of the artistic concept called “Architecture as the the making of Metaphors.” His work has been recognized around the world, particularly in the US and Saudi Arabia. [article]
Linda Heidenreich is an Associate Professor with the Department of Women’s Studies at Washington State University. She is author of This Land Was Mexican Once: Histories of Resistance From Northern California. Her articles have appeared in Aztlán, the Journal of Chicana/Latina Studies, and the Journal of Latinos in Education. Her poetry has been published in Sinister Wisdom, Sanctified, Word is Bond and Lean Seed. She is co-founder of Queer SQouts, a queer-positive service organization. [article]
David Lewkowich is a PhD candidate in McGill University’s Department of Integrated Studies in Education. His research interests include experiences of reading, theories of fantasy and desire in education, curriculum theorizing, the representation of teachers and pedagogical relationships in contemporary television and film, and the influence of affect and emotion in educational contexts. He has previously been published in JCACS: The Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, and JCT: The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. [article]
Chimdi Maduagwu is Director of the Centre for American and Atlantic Studies at the University of Lagos. He is the author of a collection of poems Amnesty to Garbage and Other Poems, and the novels, Women Without Hearts and Guilty (forthcoming). He is also the Executive Director of US-Africa Literary Foundation (a non-profit organization that provides a forum for new African and American writers to exercise their talents in creative writing.) As a literary activist and publicist, he currently coordinates ENCOUNTERS, a project that aims at rebuilding, remolding and repairing art and entertainment in Nigeria. [article]
Douglas A. Martin is author most recently of a novel, Once You Go Back (Seven Stories Press). Other works include: Branwell, a novel of the Brontë brother; They Change the Subject, stories; In The Time of Assignments, poetry; and Your Body Figured, a lyric narrative. His first novel, Outline of My Lover, was named an International Book of the Year in the TLS and adapted by the Forsythe Company for the multimedia dance-theater-film piece “Kammer/Kammer.” [article]
Marc Ouellette [Bio] [article]
Jay Reid is currently a postgraduate in the Discipline of Media at The University of Adelaide (South Australia) conducting research into the depiction of terrorism of in media before and after the events of September 11, 2001. [article]
Amanda Tai wrote these poems at the same age Rimbaud produced most of his work. She is currently a 19 year old senior in International Relations at the University of Georgia. It is uncertain whether, like Rimbaud, she plans to leave poetry behind. [article]
Emily Turner-Graham’s first book, “Never forget that you are a German”: Die Brücke, Deutschtum and National Socialism in Interwar Australia, is the first detailed cultural study of Nazi ideology as it was presented to the interwar Australian public. It will be published by Peter Lang Verlag in 2011. She is also co-editor of National Socialism in Oceania: A Critical Evaluation of its Effect and Aftermath. This book was published by Peter Lang Verlag in 2010. She has taught widely in German and Australian history at a tertiary level. She is currently a Fellow at the University of Melbourne’s School of Historical Studies. [article]
Manuel Yang was an adjunct faculty at Bowling Green State University until recently-he has also taught at University of Toledo, Lourdes College, and Monroe County Community College-and is currently “having to scrounge his next meal” alongside of hundreds of thousands of his fellow post-doc proletarians in the academic reserve army of labor. Nowadays when he is not contemplating grimly the inauspicious tea leaf patterns concerning gainful employment, he usually works on translating Yoshimoto Takaaki and, with his Japanese colleagues, The Many-Headed Hydra. His writings and translations have appeared in Reconstruction, Kyoto Journal, Arabesques Review, and Toward the Last Jubilee!: Midnight Notes at Thirty Years. [article]
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