Notes on Contributors

 
John Beer is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Portland State University. The author of The Waste Land and Other Poems (Canarium, 2010), which received the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, he has published literary and dramatic criticism in the Brooklyn Rail, Chicago Review, Review of Contemporary Literature, and Village Voice. A portion of his systematically unfaithful translation of Friedrich Schlegel’s novel Lucinde appeared from Spork Press this spring.

 

 
Sarah Brouillette is an Associate Professor of English at Carleton University, where she teaches contemporary literature and topics in print culture and media studies.

 

 
Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University. She has written books on literary theory, literary history, poetry, feminist theory and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Her two volume Essays on Extinction is forthcoming from Open Humanities Press.

 

 
Chris Coffman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She is the author of Insane Passions: Lesbianism and Psychosis in Literature and Film (Wesleyan UP, 2006) and articles on queer film and theory, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, James Joyce’s Ulysses, and Franz Kafka’s The Trial.

 

 
Hildebrand Pam Dick (aka Mina Pam Dick, Jake Pam Dick et al.) is the author, qua Mina, of Delinquent (Futurepoem, 2009). Her writing has appeared in BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Aufgabe, EOAGH, Fence, Wonder and Matrix, and is forthcoming in Open Letter and Jacket2; it is included in the anthologies The Sonnets (Telephone, 2012) and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat, 2013). Her philosophical work has appeared in a collection published by the International Wittgenstein Symposium. Her translations, co-translations and transpositions can be found in Telephone, Dandelion, and Aufgabe. Her book Metaphysical Licks, the LP is forthcoming from BookThug in 2014; a collaboration with Odile A., ff or letters to a fellow fluency, will follow from BookThug in 2015. Her writing has been translated into French, German, and Dutch.

 

 
Judith Goldman is the author of Vocoder (Roof 2001), DeathStar/Rico-chet (O 2006), and l.b.; or, catenaries (Krupskaya 2011). Her poetry has recently appeared in Fence, The Claudius App, The Volta, and PQueue. She was the Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry at UC, Berkeley for 2011–2012 and is now core faculty in the Poetics Program at SUNY, Buffalo.

 

 
Susanne E. Hall is the Campus Writing Coordinator and a Lecturer in Writing at the California Institute of Technology. In addition to her work in Writing Studies, she writes about 20^th and 21^st century poetry, popular culture, and art. Her essay “Hart Crane in Mexico: The End of a New World Poetics” recently appeared in the journal Mosaic.

 

 
Herschel Farbman is Assistant Professor of French in the Department of European Languages and Studies at UC, Irvine. He is the author of The Other Night: Dreaming, Writing, and Restlessness in Twentieth-Century Literature (Fordham 2008; paperback 2012).

 

 
Nitzan Lebovic is assistant professor of history and the Apter Chair of Holocaust Studies and Ethical Values at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania. His first book—The Philosophy of Life and Death: Ludwig Klages and Nazi Bio-Philosophy—will come out this fall with Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Nitzan published articles and chapters about German-Jewish culture, film, and political philosophy. He is the editor of a special issue of the New German Critique (Political Theology), of Rethinking History (Nihilism) and of two edited volumes about the history and theory of catastrophes and the political philosophy of nihilism.

 

 
Dr. Kirsten Locke is a lecturer in philosophy of education at the School of Critical Studies in Education at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her interest lies in the later work of Jean-Francois Lyotard, and in particular the application of this work to notions of creative pedagogy that explore the function of aesthetic experience in the spaces of education.

 

 
Amy Abugo Ongiri is Associate Professor in the English Department and Film and Media Studies Program at the University of Florida. Her book Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic (University of Virginia Press, 2009) explores the interface between the cultural politics of the Black Power and Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture. She is on the Editorial Board of American Literature and Concentric, and her work has appeared in College Literature, Camera Obscura, Postmodern Culture, Nka: The Journal of Contemporary African Art, and the Journal of African American History.

 

 
Amit S. Rai teaches new media and communication at Queen Mary, University of London. He has been involved in the development of Cutting East Youth Film Festival. Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India’s New Media Assemblage was published by Duke UP in 2009. His most recent published article was “Four Theses on Race and Deleuze” in the Woman Studies Quarterly (2012).