Notes on Contributors

James Berger is senior lecturer in American Studies and English at Yale University. He is the author of After the End: Representations of Post-Apocalypse and editor of Helen Keller’s The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition. His current project, “The Disarticulate: Language, Impairment, and the Narratives of Modernity,” will be published by New York University Press.

Since 2007, Judith Goldman has been a Harper Schmidt fellow and collegiate assistant professor at the University of Chicago, teaching in the arts humanities core and in creative writing. In autumn of 2011, she will be the Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry at University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Vocoder (Roof 2001), DeathStar/rico-chet (O Books 2006), “the dispossessions” (atticus/finch 2009), and l.b.; or, catenaries (forthcoming, Krupskaya 2011). She co-edited the annual journal War and Peace with Leslie Scalapino from 2005-2009. She is at work on multi-media performance pieces using live sound, composed recorded sound, and video.

Michael R. Griffiths is a Ph.D. Candidate in the English Department at Rice University and Lodieska Stockbridge Vaughn Fellow in the Humanities for 2011-12. His research explores biopolitics, particularly in Australian settler colonies. He has published essays or has essays forthcoming in Australian Literary Studies, Antipodes, Humanimalia, and in edited collections. He also maintains the politics and culture blog Apparatus at <http://mrgculture.wordpress.com/>.

Kaplan Page Harris is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate MA Program in English at St. Bonaventure University. His recent criticism appears in Jacket2, Wild Orchids, Paideuma, American Literature, Artvoice, Contemporary Literature, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. He is also editing, with Peter Baker and Rod Smith, The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley for the University of California Press.

Heather J. Hicks is Associate Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies at Villanova University. She is the author of The Culture of Soft Work: Labor, Gender and Race in Postmodern American Narrative (Palgrave, 2009) and has published articles on postmodern literature and film in journals including Arizona Quarterly, Camera Obscura, Contemporary Literature, and Postmodern Culture. She is currently writing a book that addresses the historical shift in the status of contemporary apocalyptic fiction from the margins to the center of the literary canon.

Nathanaël (Nathalie Stephens) has written a number of books in English or French, published in the United States, Québec and Canada. Many of these were published under the name Nathalie Stephens, and include We Press Ourselves Plainly (2010), The Sorrow and the Fast of It (2007), Paper City (2003), Je Nathanaël (2003/2006), L’injure (2004) and …s’arrête? Je (2007), for which she was awarded the Prix Alain-Grandbois by the Académie des Lettres du Québec. Carnet de désaccords (2009) was a finalist for the Prix Spirale-Éva-le-Grand. Other work exists in Basque, Slovene, and Spanish with book-length translations in Bulgarian and Portuguese (Brazil). There is an essay of correspondence (2009): Absence Where As (Claude Cahun and the Unopened Book), first published (2007) as L’absence au lieu. Also, a collection of talks, At Alberta (2008). Some work is repertoried in Constelación de poetas francófonas de cinco continentes (Diez siglos) (2011). Besides translating some of her own work, Nathanaël has translated Catherine Mavrikakis, Gail Scott, John Keene, Édouard Glissant, with translations of Hilda Hilst and Hervé Guibert forthcoming. SISYPHUS, OUTDONE. will be published by Nightboat Books in 2012. Nathanaël lives in Chicago.

Marcel O’Gorman is Professor of English and Director of the Critical Media Lab at the University of Waterloo. He is the author of two books and several articles about the impact of technology on the humanities and on the human condition, more generally. His most recent research on death and technology, which he calls “necromedia theory,” has also manifested itself in various performances and installations that involve circuits, dirt, sensors, a penny-farthing bicycle, a treadmill, and a canoe. O’Gorman refers to his critical art practice as “Applied Media Theory.” The theories proposed in O’Gorman’s work are currently being applied toward a series of social psychology experiments in “Terror Management Theory” at the University of Waterloo. The results of this work will be published in a book entitled Necromedia, which O’Gorman is currently writing.

Jennifer Rhee is Visiting Scholar in the Program in Literature at Duke University, where she recently received the Ph.D. She is co-editor of Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface, the Proceedings of the First International HASTAC Conference. She is finishing an essay on the uncanny valley, androids, and Philip K. Dick, and is researching narratives of technological singularity in fiction, popular science, and technology.

Robert Wood is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is working on feminist science fiction in the 20th Century through the lens of Marxist and feminist critiques of the concept of reproductive labor. This dissertation is part of his larger interest in the intersection of radical political movements and artistic movements. He writes for his blog, Work Resumed on the Tower <http://workresumedonthetower.blogspot.com/>, and was recently elected Campus Unit Chair on a reform ticket for his union, United Auto Workers 2865.

Ewa Plonowska Ziarek is Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature and the Founding Director of Humanities Institute at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is the author of Feminist Aesthetics: Literature, Gender, and Race in Modernity (forthcoming); An Ethics of Dissensus: Feminism, Postmodernity, and the Politics of Radical Democracy (Stanford 2001); and The Rhetoric of Failure: Deconstruction of Skepticism, Reinvention of Modernism (SUNY, 1995); the editor of Gombrowicz’s Grimaces: Modernism, Gender, Nationality (SUNY, 1998); and the co-editor of Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva’s Polis (SUNY 2005), Time for the Humanities: Praxis and the Limits of Autonomy (Fordam UP 2008), and Intermedialities: Philosophy, Art, Politics (Rowman & Littlefield 2010). She has published numerous articles on Kristeva, Irigaray, Derrida, Agamben, Foucault, Levinas, Fanon, feminist theory and literary modernism.