Notes on Contributors
Eduardo Cadava teaches in the Department of English at Princeton University, where he also is an Associate Member of the Department of Comparative Literature, the School of Architecture, and the Center for African American Studies. He is the author of Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History and Emerson and the Climates of History, and co-editor of Who Comes After the Subject?, Cities Without Citizens, and a special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly entitled And Justice for All?: The Claims of Human Rights. He is currently finishing a collection of essays on the ethics and politics of mourning entitled Of Mourning and a small book on the relation between music and techniques of reproduction, memorization, and writing entitled Music on Bones. He also is co-directing a multi-year project entitled “The Itinerant Languages of Photography” that includes scholars, artists, and curators from various countries, but mostly from Latin America.
Timothy Clark is Professor of English at the University of Durham and a specialist in the fields of modern literary theory and continental philosophy (especially the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida), also in Romanticism (especially P.B. Shelley) and ecocriticism. He has published many articles in literary and philosophical journals and published seven monographs, including recently Martin Heidegger, Routledge Critical Thinkers Series, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 2011), The Poetics of Singularity: The Counter-Culturalist Turn in Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot and the later Gadamer (Edinburgh UP, 2005), The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment (2011). He is currently working on a monograph provisionally entitled Green Deconstruction, forthcoming in this OHP series.
Tom Cohen is Professor of English and co-director of the Institute on Critical Climate Change at the University at Albany. He is the author of Anti-Mimesis, Ideology and Inscription, and Hitchcock’s Cryptonymies v. 1 & 2. His most recent title, co-authored with Claire Colebrook and J. Hillis Miller, is Theory and the Disappearing Future: On de Man, On Benjamin (Routledge, 2011).
Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University. She has written books on Deleuze, literary history, gender, literary criticism, and contemporary European philosophy.
Catherine Malabou is currently Professor of Philosophy at Paris X Nanterre and will join the University of Kingston (CRMEP) next fall. Her most recent book, Changing Difference, Feminism and Philosophy, will come out with Polity Press in June 2011.
Robert Markley is the W. D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Illinois and Editor of the interdisciplinary journal, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. His books include The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600–1740 (Cambridge, 2006) and Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination (Duke, 2005). He is completing a book on literature and science during the Little Ice Age.
J. Hillis Miller is UCI Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California at Irvine. He has published many books and essays on 19th and 20th century literature and on literary theory. His most recent books are For Derrida (Fordham, 2009) and The Medium is the Maker: Browning, Freud, Derrida, and the New Telepathic Ecotechnologies (Sussex Academic Press, 2009). His The Conflagration of Community: Fiction Before and After Auschwitz will appear in 2011 from the University of Chicago Press. A book co-authored with Claire Colebrook and Tom Cohen, Theory and the Disappearing Future: On de Man, On Benjamin, appeared in 2011 from Routledge. Miller is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society. He received the MLA Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award in 2005.
Jason Groves is a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University where he is completing a dissertation, entitled Erratic Blocks: Fictions of Movement from Goethe to Benjamin, which deals with attempts in literature, geology, and biomechanics to conceptualize erraticity. His engagement with critical climate change in the humanities spans several years and includes contributions to The Global South and Impasses in the Post-Global.
Mike Hill is an Associate Professor and Department Chair of English at the University at Albany, SUNY. His books are After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority (NYU: 2004); Masses, Classes, and the Public Sphere, contrib. ed (Verso: 2000); and Whiteness: A Critical Reader (1997). He is currently finishing a book on the moral and philosophical writing of Adam Smith, and has an additional project under way on twenty-first century warfare for the University of Minnesota Press.
Martin McQuillan is Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis at Kingston University. London, where he is also Dean of Arts and Social Sciences and Director of The London Graduate School. His most recent monographs are Deconstruction after 9/11 (2009) and Roland Barthes, or, the Profession of Cultural Studies (2011).
Justin Read is Associate Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). His research interests include the urbanization and modernization of the Americas since 1880. His first book, Modern Poetics and Hemispheric American Cultural Studies, was published by Palgrave in 2009. Read’s articles have appeared in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Journal of Architecture, and Modernism/Modernity, among others. Read is co-founder of the UB Research Group in Cultural Studies of Space.
Bernard Stiegler is Director of the Institut de recherché et d’innovation (IRI) and founder of Ars Industrialis and the Ecole de Philosophe d’Epineuil-le-Fleuriel. Among his recent works in translation are The Decadence of Industrial Democracies: Disbelief and Discredit, 1 (2011), Taking Care of Youth and the Generations (2010), For a New Critique of Political Economy (2010), and Acting Out (2009).
Joanna Zylinska is a cultural theorist writing on new technologies and new media, ethics and art. She is a Reader in New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. The author of three books—Bioethics in the Age of New Media (MIT Press, 2009), The Ethics of Cultural Studies (Continuum, 2005) and On Spiders, Cyborgs and Being Scared: the Feminine and the Sublime (Manchester University Press, 2001)—she is currently writing a new monograph on the idea of mediation, Life after New Media (with Sarah Kember) for the MIT Press, and working on a translation of Stanislaw Lem’s major philosophical treatise, Summa Technologiae. She is one of the Editors of Culture Machine, an international open-access journal of culture and theory. Zylinska combines her philosophical writings with photographic art practice.