Reconstruction 11.2 (2011)
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Contributors
Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo is Professor of comparative ethnic studies at Washington State University. In addition to numerous journal articles, she is author of In-Between Bodies: Sexual Difference, Race, and Sexuality (2007). She has also published several books with Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo, including: A New Kind of Containment: "The War on Terror," Race, and Sexuality, editors (2009), Animating Difference: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Films for Children, also with C. Richard King (2010), and Containing (Un)American Bodies: Race, Sexuality, and Post-9/11 Constructions of Citizenship (2010). She is currently editing a book collection titled, Race, Philosophy, and Film, with Dan Flory. [article]
Joyce Goggin is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she also teaches film and new media. She has published on a variety of topics including gambling, finance, money, film remakes and sequels, television and serialization, video games, and contemporary urban studies. Dr. Goggin has recently co-edited (with Dan Hassler-Forest) a collection of essays entitled, The Rise and Reason of Comics and Graphic Literature: Critical Essays on the Form (McFarland, 2010). [article]
Caren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies at UC Davis. She is the author of Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (Duke 1996) and the co-author and co-editor of works on transnational feminist cultural studies. Her current research focuses on aerial views and militarized visual culture and includes two digital multi-media scholarly works, Dead Reckoning and Precision Targets, as well as a monograph, The View From Above, forthcoming from Duke UP. She blogs at http://aerialvisualculture.blogspot.com/. [article]
Wendy Kozol is Professor of Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College. She teaches courses on visual culture, citizenship and nationalism, and comparative feminist theories and activism. She is the author of Life’s America: Family and Nation in Postwar Photojournalism (1994) and has co-edited two anthologies (with Wendy Hesford): Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the ‘Real’ (2001) and Just Advocacy: Women's Human Rights, Transnational Feminism and the Politics of Representation (2005). [article]
Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo is Associate Professor of comparative ethnic studies at Washington State University. In addition to several articles, with Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, on the United States-led "War on Terror," she has published articles on the representation of Latinos and other minoritized groups within United States popular culture. She has also published the following books with Bloodsworth-Lugo: A New Kind of Containment: "The War on Terror," Race, and Sexuality, editors (2009), Animating Difference: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Films for Children, also with C. Richard King (2010), and Containing (Un)American Bodies: Race, Sexuality, and Post-9/11 Constructions of Citizenship (2010). [article]
Marian Macken is a Ph.D. candidate at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, examining the role of artists’ books as a documentation of architecture. She is a designer, part-time educator and maker of artist’s books and has recently undertaken visiting artist residencies in Tokyo, London and New Zealand. She has published in Architecture Australia, Architectural Theory Review and MC Journal and her work is held in various international public collections of artists’ books. [article]
Pamela Mansutti holds graduate degrees in Comparative Literature and Film from the Universities of Udine and Bologna, Italy, where she was born. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in American Literature at the University of Waterloo, ON, where she investigates the ethical and cultural representations of 9/11 in American fiction. A past research fellow of UCLA and the JFK Institute for North American Studies in Berlin, Pamela has forthcoming articles on Robert Coover and intermediality for the journal Symplokē and on John Updike and Joseph O’Neill’s post-9/11 fiction for the journal Other Modernities (U of Milan). [article]
Trimiko Melancon, an assistant professor of English and African and African American Studies at Loyola University, specializes in African American and American literature and culture; black feminist theory and criticism; critical race, gender and sexuality studies; and African American and Black German Studies. Previously a J. William Fulbright Scholar of American Literature and American Studies in Berlin, Germany, as well as an inaugural visiting scholar at the James Weldon Johnson Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies (Emory University), her publications appear in African American Review, Callaloo, Reconstruction, and the Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers. [article]
Christine Muller received her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park. She explores her primary interest in cultural trauma through life writing, popular culture and literature texts relating to September 11. Her work has been included in the collections The War on Terror and American Popular Culture: September 11 and Beyond; September 11 in Popular Culture: A Guide; and the forthcoming The 21st Century Superhero: Essays on Gender, Genre and Globalization in Film. She has taught at the University of Maryland, College Park as well as the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. [article]
Mark J. Noonan is Associate Professor of English at New York City College of Technology. He is editor of "The Place Where We Dwell: Reading and Writing About New York City" (Kendall/Hunt, 2011, third edition) and author of "Reading the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870-1893" (Kent State UP, 2010). He also teaches "The Literature of New York City" at NYU's School of Continuing Education. [article]
Daniel Ross is co-director of the film The Ister (2004) and author of Violent Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2004). He is translator or co-translator of three books by Bernard Stiegler: Acting Out (Stanford University Press, 2009), For a New Critique of Political Economy (Polity Press, 2010), and The Decadence of Industrial Democracies: Disbelief and Discredit, 1 (Polity Press, 2011). [article]
Bidhan Chandra Roy was born in Britain of an English mother and Bangladeshi father, and received his PhD from the University of London. He has published articles and book chapters on Hanif Kureishi, Muslim identity and literature, literary representations of South Asian ethnicity and the travel writing of V.S. Naipaul. His forthcoming book is entitled Globalization and the South Asian Diasporic Novel. Bidhan currently lives in Los Angeles where he is an Assistant Professor of Anglophone and Contemporary British Literature at California State University, Los Angeles. [article]
Christopher Schaberg is Assistant Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, where he teaches courses on contemporary literature and critical theory. His current research focuses on concepts of environment and questions of travel. His book The Textual Life of Airports is forthcoming from Continuum. [article]
Lara Schaberg is an artist and graphic designer living in New Orleans. [article]
Scott Cutler Shershow is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Puppets and ‘Popular’ Culture (1996) and The Work and the Gift (2005), and the coeditor of Marxist Shakespeares (2000). His current research focuses on the application of deconstruction to contemporary legal and political issues. [article]
David Simpson is Distinguished Professor of English and G.B. Needham Chair at UC Davis, where he had the great pleasure of getting to know the editors of this issue. His most recent book is Wordsworth, Commodification and Social Concern; he is currently finishing a project titled Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger, which is suffused with the preoccupations of writing 'after 9/11'. [article]
Kara Thompson is Assistant Professor of English and American studies at the College of William and Mary. She is currently revising her first book for publication, entitled A Future Perfect: Time, Queerness, Indigeneity. She is also working on a multimedia companion piece, "Mapping with Reservations" through the Institute for Multimedia Literacy-Vectors NEH summer fellowship. Her current research focuses on animality and sovereignty. [article]
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