Notes on Contributors

Charles Bernstein
Charles Bernstein’s Pitch of Poetry, new essays, was published in 2016 by the University of Chicago Press. His most recent book of poems is Recalculating (Chicago, 2013). In 2010, Farrar, Straus & Giroux published All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems. Bernstein is Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is co-director of PennSound. 

Louise Burchill 
Louise Burchill is Visiting Lecturer in Contemporary French Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Feminist Thought at the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Her research and publications focus on the feminine in contemporary French philosophy, the notion of space, and the intersection of philosophy with film and architecture. Of the numerous texts she has written on the work of Jacques Derrida, two notably inquire as to what cinema might provoke by way of a (re)thinking of certain key conceptual constellations within Derrida’s thought: “Derrida and the (Spectral) Scene of Cinema,” in Felicity J. Colman (ed.),Film & Philosophy: Key Thinkers, London: Acumen, 2009, 164-178; and “Derrida and Barthes: Speculative Intrigues in Cinema, Photography, and Phenomenology,” in Zeynep Direk and Leonard Lawlor (eds.), A Companion to Derrida, Chichester: Blackwell, 2015, 321-344.

David Coughlan
David Coughlan is Lecturer in English at the University of Limerick, Ireland, and the author of Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). He has published articles on contemporary literature and critical theory in Parallax, ImageTexT, Derrida Today, College Literature, Critique, Modern Fiction Studies, and several edited collections.

Simon Glezos
Simon Glezos is an Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Victoria. He has a Ph.D. in political theory and international relations from the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Politics of Speed: Capitalism, the State and War in an Accelerating World, from Routledge press. He has published articles in CTheory, Contemporary Political Theory, The Journal of International Political Theory, International Politics, and Philosophy in Review. His research focuses on global political theory, applying the insights of classic and contemporary theory to questions of speed and acceleration across multiple sites within global politics.

Timothy Holland
Timothy Holland is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Emory University and co-editor of Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture. His essays have been published in Film-Philosophy, Discourse, Screen, and New Review of Film and Television Studies. His current book project explores the overlooked role of cinema in Jacques Derrida’s oeuvre as well as the timeliness of deconstruction for contemporary film and media studies.

Phillip Lobo
Phillip A. Lobo is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California, where he was awarded the College Doctoral Fellowship.  His dissertation addresses formal realism as a technology for the production of subjectivity in novels and games.  His work has appeared on Chiasma: A Site For Thought, in Critical Insights: Joseph Conrad, and he has numerous articles archived at Open Letters Monthly.

Robert Meister
Robert Meister is Professor of Political and Social Thought in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is also a visitor at the Center for Contemporary Theory at the University of Chicago. His writings include After Evil: A Politics of Human Rights (Columbia University Press, 2011); Political Identity: Thinking Through Marx I (Blackwell,1990) and “Liquidity” (in Lee and Martin, ed., Derivatives and the Wealth of Society, University of Chicago Press, 2016). 

Sharon Willis
Sharon Willis is Professor of Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester.  A Co-Editor of Camera Obscura, she is the author of Marguerite Duras: Writing on the Body, High Contrast: Race and Gender in Contemporary Hollywood Film, and The Poitier Effect: Melodramas of Racial Pedagogy, and numerous articles on race and gender in popular cinema.