Notes On Contributors

Étienne Balibar is Professor Emeritus of moral and political philosophy at Université de Paris X – Nanterre and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, and is currently Visiting Professor at Columbia University in the City of New York. He has published widely in the area of Marxist philosophy and moral and political philosophy in general. His many works include Lire le Capital (with Louis Althusser, Pierre Macherey, Jacques Rancière, Roger Establet, and F. Maspero) (1965); Spinoza et la politique (1985); Nous, citoyens d’Europe? Les frontières, l’État, le peuple (2001); Politics and the Other Scene (2002); L’Europe, l’Amérique, la Guerre. Réflexions sur la mediationeuropéenne (2003); and Europe, Constitution, Frontière (2005).

Craig Carson is Assistant Professor of English at Adelphi University and a former Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. His current book project, Eighteenth-Century Society of the Spectacle: Ethics and the Marketplace, examines eighteenth-century British literature, political economy, and commodity culture.

Kurt Cavender is a Ph.D. candidate at Brandeis University. His work is concerned with theories of history and the American novel, with secondary interests in Film studies and the Digital Humanities. He has another review forthcoming in Cultural Studies (Spring 2013).

Charles J. Gordon is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at UC Irvine. He is currently completing a dissertation on Shakespeare’s architectural imaginary entitled “Shakespeare’s Landscape Futures.” He has published articles on Shakespeare and design as well as medieval host desecration narratives.

Jennifer Greiman
Jennifer Greiman is Associate Professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is the author of Democracy’s Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing (Fordham, 2010) and co-editor, with Paul Stasi, of The Last Western: Deadwood and the End of American Empire (bloomsbury 2013). Her current research is on democratic theory and the work of Herman Melville.

Kir Kuiken is Assistant Professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY. He recently completed a book manuscript entitled “Imagined Sovereignties: Towards a New Political Romanticism” and is currently working on a project about the role of Romanticism in contemporary critical and political theory. His published work includes essays on Derrida, Heidegger, and Benjamin.

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 (Palgrave 2007), the editor of Postcolonial Literary Studies: the First 30 Years (Johns Hopkins 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.

Warren Montag is the Brown Family Professor of European Literature at Occidental College. His most recent book is Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual War (Duke University Press, 2013). He is also editor of Décalages, a journal devoted to scholarship on Althusser and his circle.

Erin Obodiac received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Irvine and has held teaching and research appointments at UC Irvine, the University of Leeds, and SUNY Albany. Her writings inquire about the relation between the institutional history of deconstruction, posthumanist theory, the discourse on technics and animality, and new media art forms. She is currently a Fellow at Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities completing a book called Robots at Risk: Transgenic Art and Corporate Personhood.

Ji-Young Um is Visiting Assistant Professor with appointments in the American Studies Program and the English Department at Williams College. Um has written and presented on representations of minority soldiers in the U.S., intersections of militarism, empire, and racism, Asian Americans and U.S. wars in Asia, and visual cultures and race. She is currently working on a book manuscript that argues for reading America’s wars as racial projects that reveal the constitutive relationship between militarism and racism.

Gavin Walker is Assistant Professor of History and East Asian Studies at McGill University in Montréal, Québec. Recent publications include “On Marxism’s Field of Operation: Badiou and the Critique of Political Economy” in Historical Materialism (20.2) and “Primitive Accumulation and the Formation of Difference: On Marx and Schmitt,” in Rethinking Marxism (23.3).