Notes on Contributors
Terry Caesar taught at Clarion University and Mukogawa Women’s University. His latest books are a collection of essays, Speaking of Animals (2008), and a memoir, Before I Had a Mother (2010).
Jeffrey R. Di Leo edits American Book Review and symplokē, and is Professor of English and Philosophy and Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Houston-Victoria. His books include Morality Matters: Race, Class, and Gender in Applied Ethics (2002), Affiliations: Identity in Academic Culture (2003), On Anthologies: Politics and Pedagogy (2004), If Classrooms Matter: Progressive Visions of Educational Environments (2004, with W. Jacobs), From Socrates to Cinema: An Introduction to Philosophy (2007), Fiction’s Present: Situating Contemporary Narrative Innovation (2008, with R. M. Berry), Academe Degree Zero: Reconsidering the Politics of Higher Education (2010), and Federman’s Fictions: Innovation, Theory, and the Holocaust (2010).
David B. Downing is Director of Graduate Studies in Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where since 1988 he has taught in the English department. He is the editor of the journal Works and Days and the author of The Knowledge Contract: Politics and Paradigms in the Academic Workplace (2005). He is also the editor or co-editor of 5 other books, including most recently Academic Freedom in the Post-9/11 Era (2010), co-edited with Edward J. Carvalho. In 2007, Works and Days published a special volume, The Society for Critical Exchange: Phase I, 1977–1988.
Emory Elliott (1942–2009) was University Professor of the University of California and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Power and the Pulpit in Puritan New England, Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic (1982), and “American Puritan Literature,” which appears in Volume I of the multi-volume Cambridge History of American Literature (1997). He is also the editor of many books, including The Columbia Literary History of the United States (1988), American Literature: A Prentice Hall Anthology (1991), and the Columbia History of the American Novel (1991).
Horace L. Fairlamb is Professor of Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Houston-Victoria. He has published in literary theory, intellectual history, and philosophy. He is currently working on projects in the history of philosophy and philosophy of religion.
Robin Truth Goodman is a Professor of English at Florida State University. Her publications include Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public: Women and the “Re-Privatization” of Labor (2010); Policing Narratives and the State of Terror (SUNY Press, 2009); World, Class, Women: Global Literature, Education, and Feminism (2004); Strange Love: Or, How We Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Market (2002; co-written with Kenneth J. Saltman); and Infertilities: Exploring Fictions of Barren Bodies (2001).
Elaine Martin is Professor of German and Director of the Program in Comparative & World Literature at the University of Alabama. She has published essays on terrorism and culture in the Journal of War and Culture Studies, Global Media and Communication, Critical Studies on Terrorism, and in the collection of essays Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror (2010).
Sophia A. McClennen is Professor of Comparative Literature, Spanish, and Women’s Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, where she directs the Center for Global Studies and the graduate program in Comparative Literature. Her books are The Dialectics of Exile: Nation, Time, Language, and Space in Hispanic Literature (2004), Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope (2010), Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America (co-edited with Earl Fitz, 2004), Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror (co-edited with Henry James Morello, 2010), and America According to Colbert: Satire as Public Pedagogy (2011). She is currently working on a study of Latin American Cinema and globalization.
Uppinder Mehan is Chair of Humanities at the University of Houston-Victoria and the Associate Director of the Society for Critical Exchange. His research and writing interests include postcolonial theory and literature and science fiction and fantasy, and his articles and reviews have appeared in journals such as The Journal of the American Comparative Literature Association. He is the co-editor with Nalo Hopkinson of an anthology of new fiction, So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy (2004).
Christian Moraru is Professor of English at University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He specializes in critical theory and American literature, as well as comparative literature with emphasis on history of ideas, narrative, postmodernism, new material studies, and the relations between globalism, community, and culture. His latest books include Rewriting: Postmodern Narrative and Cultural Critique in the Age of Cloning (2001); Memorious Discourse: Reprise and Representation in Postmodernism (2005); Cosmodernism: American Narrative, Late Globalization, and the New Cultural Imaginary (2011); and the edited collection Postcommunism, Postmodernism, and the Global Imagination (2009).
William V. Spanos is Distinguished Professor at Binghamton University (SUNY) and the founding editor of boundary 2. He is the author of many books, including The Errant Art of Moby-Dick: The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies (1995); America’s Shadow: An Anatomy of Empire (2000); American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization: The Specter of Vietnam (2008); Herman Melville and the American Calling: The Fiction after Moby-Dick, 1951–1857 (2008); The Legacy of Edward W. Said (2009); and The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception: Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor (2010). His latest book, Exiles in the City: Hannah Arendt and Edward Said in Counterpoint, is forthcoming from Ohio State University Press.
Zahi Zalloua is Associate Professor of French at Whitman College and editor of The Comparatist. He has published Montaigne and the Ethics of Skepticism (2005), and edited two volumes on Montaigne: Montaigne and the Question of Ethics (2006) and Montaigne After Theory, Theory After Montaigne (2009). He has also published articles and edited volumes and special journal issues on globalization, literary theory, ethical criticism, and trauma studies.