Reconstruction Vol. 13, No. 1

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Contributors

Michelle Aung Thin is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Adelaide. Her research interests include Anglo-Burmese identity, skin, authenticity, intimacy and the creative process. Aung Thin’s novel, The Monsoon Bride, was published by Text in 2011. [article]

David Bahr has a Ph.D. in English from The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and is currently an Assistant Professor of English at The Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York. The subject of his essay for this issue, originally published as “Mothered” in GQ, was adapted from a longer, earlier essay, “No Matter What Happens,” which later appeared in the anthology Boys to Men: Gay Men Write about Growing Up. The GQ essay was chosen by Bob Atwan, series editor of Best American Essays, as a notable essay of 2004. His work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Times Book Review, The Village Voice, New York, Spin, Time Out New York, Poets & Writers, The Advocate, Publishers Weekly, Prairie Schooner, and other publications.[article]

W.C. Bamberger is the author, editor or translator of more than a dozen books. Recently published essays have addressed the death of Kierkegaard, and the influence of chiasmus on Raymond Roussel. He has translated work by composer Mauricio Kagel and by Gershom Scholem. His fourth novel, A Light Like Ida Lupino, is forthcoming in 2014. He lives in Michigan. [article]

Will Buckingham writes both fiction and philosophy. His books include The Descent of the Lyre (Roman Books 2012), Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling (Bloomsbury 2013), and Finding Our Sea-Legs: Ethics, Experience and the Ocean of Stories (Kingston University Press 2009). He is currently senior lecturer in the School of Humanities at De Montfort University in the UK. [article]

Rita Ciresi is the author of four novels (Bring Back My Body to Me, Pink Slip, Blue Italian, and Remind Me Again Why I Married You) and two award-winning story collections (Sometimes I Dream in Italian and Mother Rocket). She is professor of English and director of the creative writing program at the University of South Florida. [article]

Alan Ramon Clinton [introduction]

Angela Flury [introduction]

Stephanie Gray's first book of poems, Heart Stoner Bingo, was published by Straw Gate Books in 2007. Her chapbook mentioned in the article for this issue was published in June 2012. Magazine and journal publications include Sentence, Aufgabe, Brooklyn Rail, EOAGH, 2ndAvenuePoetry, Boog City Reader, and The Recluse. Reading series where she’s read live with her films include Segue and the Poetry Project’s Friday night series. As a super 8 filmmaker, her experimental and city symphony have screened internationally at festivals such as Viennale, Oberhausen, Chicago Underground, Frameline, and Mix. Her recent film You know they want to disappear Hell’s Kitchen as Clinton, a “poetic film letter” to E.B. White’s essay Here is NY, was included in the 2011 Black Maria Film Festival Tour where it was one of 10 Jury’s Choice First Prizes. [article]

Margaret Morganroth Gullette, a Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, is a cultural critic and prize-winning writer of nonfiction, an internationally known age critic, an essayist, feminist, and activist. Her recent book, Agewise, has been described as “important social criticism by a prominent scholar”; Aged by Culture (also University of Chicago Press), was nominated for a Pulitzer and received an Honorable Mention from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. Declining to Decline: Cultural Combat and the Politics of the Midlife won the Emily Toth award in 1998 for the best feminist book on American popular culture. Her essays have appeared in literary quarterlies, including Kenyon Review and Yale Review; and in scholarly journals like Feminist Studies, Representations, and the Journal of the History of Sexuality. She has been the recipient of NEH, ACLS, and Bunting Fellowships.[article]

Julia Kalinina describes herself as "a Russian girl who sees the beauty." She was born in a small town 500 km from Moscow. As a child she was learning something new all the time including singing, acting, dancing, and gymnastics but was unable to find her true calling. She became interested in photography as a university student and began taking photos with a small, non-professional digital camera. Then she met her friend Pasha who introduced her to "traditional" photography and gave Kalinina her first analog camera, the famous Russian Zenit. Since then, she has taken analog photography lessons from the documentary photographer Michael Rogozin and learned to develop film and print photos on a Leitz photo enlarger. After that magical experience, she continues to experiment with new things such as learning French, but works as a photo retoucher. Kalinina firmly believes that digital cameras take only "image data" but that with analog cameras you can take "Photography." Her fiance is a photographer as well, and they have a big cupboard full of analog cameras.

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Robert King is assistant professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Sierra Nevada College (NV, USA). He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Purdue University and was awarded the Purdue University College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2011 (for his "System Individuation in Differential and Dialectical Ontology: Deleuze, Hegel, and Systematic Thought"). He has also studied at Cornell University’s School of Criticism and Theory and at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum in Città de Castillo, Italy. Robert's writing has been published in a variety of books and journals, and he is co-editor with Darrell Arnold of Traditions of Systems Theory: Major Figures and Developments (forthcoming with Routledge). Robert currently serves as the book review editor for Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry and as manuscript reviewer for Deleuze Studies and Constructivist Foundations.[article]

Rusty Morrison's After Urgency won the Tupelo’s Dorset Prize, Book of the Given is available from Noemi Press, "the true keeps calm biding its story" won Academy of American Poet’s James Laughlin Award, Northern California Book Award, Ahsahta’s Sawtooth Prize, DiCastagnola Award from Poetry Society of America. "Whethering" won the Colorado Prize for Poetry. She has received the Bogin, Hemley, Winner, and DiCastagnola Awards from The Poetry Society of America. Her poems and/or essays have appeared in A Public Space, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Lana Turner, Pleiades, VOLT. She is co-publisher of Omnidawn (www.omnidawn.com). [article]

Alejandro Puga is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at DePauw University, where he also coordinates the Latin American & Caribbean Studies program. His research interest and published work focus on the Mexico City novel. He is the author of La ciudad novelada: Estructura, retórica, y figuración (The Novelized City: Rhetorical and Imaginary Structure), to be published in 2013 by the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. He is currently researching flâneur identity in Mexican literature. [article]

Diana Svennes-Smith is a Creative-Critical Research PhD candidate at the University of East Anglia in the UK. Her creative thesis is a first novel and her critical thesis explores authorial stance in relation to character creation. As a teaching-writing fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Diana taught fiction writing for the Creative Writing Department while earning her MFA. Upon graduation, she was awarded a predoctoral fellowship to teach an Iowa Fiction Workshop at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her work has been published in Turbine, maisonneuve, and The Fiddlehead. [article]

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