Notes on Contributors

Anthony Alessandrini teaches English at Kingsborough Community College and Middle Eastern Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of Frantz Fanon and the Future of Cultural Politics; the editor of Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives; and the co-editor of “Resistance Everywhere”: The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey. His book Decolonize Multiculturalism is forthcoming.

Robert F. Carley is an Associate Professor of International Studies at Texas A&M University, College Station. He is the author of Cultural Studies Methodology and Political Strategy: Metaconjuncture (2021), Gramscian Critical Pedagogy (2021), Culture and Tactics: Gramsci, Race, and the Politics of Practice (2019), Autonomy, Refusal, and the Black Bloc (2019), and Collectivities (2016). His most recent article, “Intersecting Oppressions; Intersecting Struggles: Race, Class, and Subalternity” (2022) appears in the Journal of Class and Culture. He is a member of the Governing Board of the Cultural Studies Association and co-edits Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association.

Katherine Ford is Professor of Hispanic Studies and Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at East Carolina University. She specializes in Modern Latin American literature, concentrating on theater and performance of the twentieth century. She is the author of essays on Latin American and Latinx theater and of the books Theater of Revisions in the Hispanic Caribbean (2017) and Politics and Violence in Cuba and Argentina (2010). She is currently looking at the connections between theater and film and the role of the humanities in community engagement.

Judith Goldman is the author of four books of poetry, most recently agon (Operating System 2017), and a number of articles on contemporary poetry and poetics; she has performed her work nationally and internationally. In 2019–2020, a collaborative, multi-media installation Open Waters [Northwest Passage + Open Polar Sea + Arctic Plastic] was exhibited at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, NY. Goldman is Associate Professor in the Department of English at SUNY, Buffalo, where she directs its Poetics Program. She is also the Poetry Features Editor for Postmodern Culture.

Geo Maher is a Philadelphia-based writer and organizer, and Visiting Associate Professor of Global Political Thought at Vassar College. He has taught at Drexel University, San Quentin State Prison, and the Venezuelan School of Planning in Caracas, and has held visiting positions at the College of William and Mary’s Decolonizing Humanities Project, NYU’s Hemispheric Institute, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He his co-editor of the Duke University Press series Radical Américas and author of five books: We Created Chávez (Duke, 2013), Building the Commune (Verso, 2016), Decolonizing Dialectics (Duke, 2017), A World Without Police (Verso, 2021), and Anticolonial Eruptions (University of California, 2022).

Jose-Luis Moctezuma is a Xicano poet. He is the author of two poetry collections, Place-Discipline (Omnidawn, 2018) and Black Box Syndrome (forthcoming from Omnidawn, 2023). His poetry and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in Fence, Jacket2, Chicago Review, Modernism/modernity, and elsewhere. He lives and teaches in Chicago.

Chantal Peñalosa (1987, Tecate, Mexico) studied fine arts at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California and the University of São Paulo. She was awarded the acquisition prize in the XIV Bienal de Artes Visuales del Noroeste and was awarded FONCA fellowships in the Young Artists category (2013–2014 and 2015–2016). In 2014 she was also recipient of the Programa Bancomer-MACG in its 4th edition. Peñalosa’s research-based practice stems from small gestures and interventions in everyday life, which are meant to expound upon notions of labor, waiting, and delay. Repetition is a crucial element in her process, functioning as an allusion to the absurdity, weathering, and alienating effects of work. For Peñalosa repeating actions evoke latent states in which dialogue appears unilateral and time suspended. Her work has been shown in MUAC (2022), Museo Jumex (2021); Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (2021); M HKA Museum, Belgium (2019); ESPAC, Mexico (2019); XII Bienal FEMSA, Mexico (2018); Museo Amparo, Mexico (2018); CCI Fabrika, Russia (2017); La Tallera, Mexico (2015); ZKM Center for Art and Media, Germany (2015); and MUAC, Mexico (2014), and elsewhere.

Matthew J. Rigilano is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Penn State Abington, where he teaches writing and English. His research ranges across 18th century British literature and culture, the theory of the novel, psychoanalysis, and philosophies of the subject.

Matthew Scully is Lecturer (Maître assistant) at the University of Lausanne, where he teaches American literature and culture from the 18th century to the present. His book project, “Democratic Anarchy: Figures of Equality in United States Literature and Politics,” engages the anxious intersections of politics and aesthetics to develop a new theory of democratic equality in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and culture. Work from this project and related research have appeared in the Journal of Modern Literature, Diacritics, American Literature, and African American Review.

Erick Verran is an independent scholar and poet whose literary criticism and articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Contemporary Aesthetics, Georgia Review, and Journal of Sound and Music in Games. Obiter Dicta, a collection of short essays, was published by Punctum Books in 2021. His poetry last appeared in the Massachusetts Review. He lives in New York.

Ewa Płonowska Ziarek is Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature at University at Buffalo and a Visiting Faculty in the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, Maine. Most recently she co-authored with Rosalyn Diprose Arendt, Natality and Biopolitics: Towards Democratic Plurality and Reproductive Justice (2019), awarded a Book Prize by Symposium: Canadian Journal for Continental Philosophy. Her other books include Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism (2012); An Ethics of Dissensus: Feminism, Postmodernity, and the Politics of Radical Democracy (2001); The Rhetoric of Failure: Deconstruction of Skepticism, Reinvention of Modernism (1995); and co-edited volumes, such as, Intermedialities: Philosophy, Art, Politics (2010), Time for the Humanities (2008), and Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva’s Polis (2005). Her interdisciplinary research interests include feminist political theory, modernism, critical race theory, and algorithmic culture.