Volume 1 • Number 2 • Summer 1998
Author Bios
Articles
E. San Juan, Jr. will assume this August the chairmanship of the Department of Comparative American Cultures, Washington State University, Pullman. He has taught previously at the University of California and the University of Connecticut. Among his recent books are the multi-awarded Racial Formations/Critical Transformations; The Phillippine Temptation; Hegemony and Strategies of Transgression; From Exile to Diaspora; and Beyond Postcolonial Theory. He was a fellow at the Institute of Humanities, University of Edinburgh, and visiting professor of English at the Universita degli studi di Trento, Italy.
Transforming Identity in Postcolonial Narrative: An Approach to the Novels of Jessica Hagedorn
Elizabeth Rich is a doctoral graduate and teaching fellow at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her dissertation, entitled "After the Fact: Cultural Authority and Historical Document in Recent Literature," focuses on the uses of historical documents in historiographic metafiction as a means grounding literary projects that employ postmodern aesthetics in material and political contexts. She has presented at several conferences on writers such as Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, John Dos Passos, Jean Toomer, and Susan Howe.
Disciplined Identities: Western Author(ity) in Crisis in Penelope Lively's Cleopatra's Sister
Jonathan L. Beller is Research Fellow at History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz. He also teaches in American Studies and Film and Video at UCSC. His work on visual culture has appeared in Postmodern Culture, Creative Screenwriting, Communication Research, and boundary 2. He is co-editor of Polygraph 8: New Metropolitan Forms, as well as a frequent contributor to The Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Identity Through Death/The Nature of Capital: The Media-Enviornment for Natural Born Killers
Gregory J. Reid is the Deputy Chair (responsible for English studies) of the Département des lettres et communications of the Université de Sherbrooke. He is a member of a research team developing an online bibliography of studies in Comparative Canadian Literature. His other research interests include Engligh theatre in Quebec, the polarities of orality and visuality, and the literary history of tragedy and madness. He has published comparisons of Michel Tremblay and Robertson Davies and of Anne Hébert and William Faulkner in Studies in Canadian Literature.
Jeffrey Arnold Shantz is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His research interests include radical ecological politics, revolutionary syndicalism, social movements, work abolitionism, critical geopolitics and Second International Marxism. His dissertation involves urban anarchist movements in North America. He is co-founder of the Situationist-inspired Critical 2 at Carleton
"Don't Go in the Pit": Active Resistance and the Territories of Political Identity
Jeffrey Roessner received both an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Notre Dame in 1998. His research interests include issues of national identity, tradition, and intertextuality in historical works by contemporary British writers such as John Fowles, Jeanette Winterson, and Martin Amis.
God Save the Canon: Tradition and the British Subject in Peter Ackroyd's English Music
Michael Barry (barrymg@udmercy.edu) is an as-siant professor at the University of Detroit Mercy. He has taught in both the People's Republic of China and in Turkey. He is currently at work on questions of aesthetics and politics in Modern American literature.