Notes on Contributors

Rolande Glicenstein was born on December 31, 1943, in hiding in the south of France of Jewish emigres from Poland. She grew up in Paris and came to the United States in 1968 where she worked as a costumer for film and television. She has a daughter, Hylda Berman, who is a sculptor living in Chicago. Rolande currently lives in Baltimore.

David Kupferman is an assistant professor of education at the University of Hawaiʻi – West Oʻahu. He lived and worked in the Marshall Islands for many years prior. His research interests consider the intersections of pedagogy, theory, and cultural studies, occasionally as they play out in the region known as Micronesia.

Christopher Law is a Ph.D. student in the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he also teaches topics in philosophy. He is completing a dissertation on the concepts of life and “uncriticizability” in the work of Walter Benjamin.

T.J. Martinson is a PhD student at Indiana University – Bloomington. His research interests include 20^th/21^st century American literature, object-oriented ontology, and phenomenology.

Duy Lap Nguyen is an assistant professor of world cultures and literatures at the University of Houston. His work has appeared, most recently, in Thesis Eleven (2015), Constellations (2015), Differences (2015), Interventions (2014) and Historical Materialism (2010). Nguyen’s current research explores works by the Vietnamese philosopher Trần Đức Thảo and develops a reading of Thảo’s materialist critique of phenomenology. A second project, titled “The Postcolonial Present: Redemption and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Vietnamese Culture and History,” examines Vietnamese cinema, literature, and mass culture from the Vietnam War era.

Ben Novotny Owen is a PhD candidate in English at the Ohio State University, studying film, graphic narrative, and twentieth-century American literature and art. He has published on race and early sound cinema in Screen, and has an essay on comics form and the politics of history in the recent collection The Comics of Joe Sacco: Journalism in a Visual World. He is currently working on a dissertation about the interrelation of cartoon aesthetics and modernism in the United States 1915–1965.

Brad Prager is Professor of German in the Department of German & Russian Studies at the University of Missouri. He is the author of After the Fact: The Holocaust in Twenty-first Century Documentary Film (2015), The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth (2007), and Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism: Writing Images (2007). He has edited several books, and is on the editorial boards of New German Critique and German Studies Review.

Matthew B. Smith is an Assistant Professor of French at Northern Illinois University. He has translated three novels by the Belgian writer Jean-Philippe Toussaint and a work of poetry by the Oulipo poet Frédéric Forte.