Notes on Contributors
Andrew Baerg is Chair of Humanities and Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Houston-Victoria. His research interests include media and social theory, digital game studies, media and sport, and neoliberalism.
Christopher Breu is Associate Professor of English at Illinois State University, where he teaches classes in twentieth and twenty-first century literature and culture as well as cultural and critical theory. He is the author of Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics (2014) and Hard-Boiled Masculinities (2005).
Jodi Dean is the Donald R. Harter ‘39 Professor of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Her research includes political theory, digital media and politics, poststructuralism and psychoanalysis, neoliberalism and consumerism, cultural studies, and feminist theory. Her books include Publicity’s Secret (2002), Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies (2009), Blog Theory (2010), and The Communist Horizon (2012).
Noah De Lissovoy is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on critical approaches to pedagogy, educational theory, and cultural studies, as well as on problems posed for educators by globalization. He is the author of Power, Crisis, and Education for Liberation, and co-author of Toward a New Common School Movement. His articles have appeared in many journals and edited collections.
Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences and Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria. He is editor and publisher of American Book Review, and the founder and editor of symplokē. His most recent books are Neoliberalism, Education, Terrorism: Contemporary Dialogues (2013, with H. Giroux, S. McClennen, and K. Saltman), Corporate Humanities: Moving Beyond the Neoliberal Academy (2013), and Turning the Page: Book Culture in the Digital Age (2014).
Robert P. Marzec is associate professor of ecocriticism and postcolonialism in the Department of English at Purdue University. He is the author of An Ecological and Postcolonial Study of Literature (2007), the editor of Postcolonial Literary Studies: the First 30 Years (2011), and the associate editor of Modern Fiction Studies. He has published articles in journals such as boundary 2, Radical History Review, Public Culture, The Global South, and The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies. His new book Environmentality: the Rise of the Security Society in the Age of Climate Change is forthcoming.
Uppinder Mehan is Dean of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of English at Fort Valley State University. He is editor, with Nalo Hopkinson, of So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy, and his essays have appeared in Comparative Literature, Paragraph, and Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction.
Paul A. Passavant, is author of No Escape: Freedom of Speech and the Paradox of Rights (2002). He is also, with Jodi Dean, the editor of Empire’s New Clothes: Reading Hardt and Negri (2004). In addition to policing protest, his studies include neoliberalism and the state, torture and surveillance, and politics and society beyond law and the state. He is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
Jennifer Wingard is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Composition, and Pedagogy at the University of Houston. Her main area of research is the impact of global neoliberal economics on local civic discourses. Her research interests also include the rhetoric(s) of protest, media literacy, feminist rhetoric(s) and theories, and critical pedagogy. She is the author of Branded Bodies, Rhetoric, and the Neoliberal Nation-State (2012).
Zahi Zalloua is Associate Professor of French and Interdisciplinary Studies at Whitman College and editor of The Comparatist. He has published Montaigne and the Ethics of Skepticism (2005) and Reading Unruly: Interpretation and its Ethical Demands (2014). He has edited two volumes on Montaigne, Montaigne and the Question of Ethics (2006) and Montaigne After Theory, Theory After Montaigne (2009), and has also published articles, edited volumes and special journal issues on globalization, literary theory, ethical criticism, and trauma studies.