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Notes on contributors
KATYA GIBEL AZOULAY is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Chair of
the Afro-American Studies Concentration at Grinnell College. Her forthcoming
book, Black, Jewish and Interracial: It’s Not the Color of Your Skin but the Race
of Your Kin and Other Myths of Identity, is to be published in autumn 1997…
JOHN CASTLES recently graduated from the University of Technology, Sydney,
with a doctoral thesis on stardom … DIPESH CHAKRABARTY is a historian and
has recently moved from the Ashworth Centre at the University of Melbourne to
the University of Chicago… JOHN NGUYET ERNI teaches Media and Cultural
Studies in the Department of Communication, University of New Hampshire. He
is the recipient of the 1996–7 Gustafson Fellowship from the Center for the
Humanities at UNH for his work on a forthcoming book about AIDS in Asia, sexual
politics and the global velctors of orientalism. He is the author of Unstable
Frontiers: Technomedicine and the Cultural Politics of ‘Curing’ AIDS (University
of Minnesota Press, 1994)… ANDREW GOODWIN is Associate Professor of
Communication at the University of San Francisco and author of Dancing in the
Distraction Factory: Music Television and Popular Culture (1992)… STEPHEN
HARTNETT is Assistant Professor at Ball State University and also teaches in the
Department of English at Loyola University in Chicago… RICHARD L.
KAPLAN is Visiting Researcher in the Department of Sociology at the University
of California, Santa Barbara. He recently completed his dissertation on
transformations in the public sphere and American journalism, 1865–1920…
ADAM KATZ recently completed his dissertation ‘Post-modernism and the
politics of culture’ at Syracuse University and currently teaches at Onondaga
Community College. His work addresses cultural studies, postmodern critical
theory, Marxism, and discourses on the Holocaust… P.G.KNIGHT is a British
Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of American and
Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK, working on conspiracy
culture in postwar America… AMITAVA KUMAR teaches in the English
Department at the University of Florida. He is a columnist for the Indian journals
Samkaleen Janmat and Liberation. He also works as a documentary photographer
for Impact Visuals. Most recently his work has appeared in Critical Quarterly,
Modern Fiction Studies and College Literature… KATHLEEN McHUGH teaches
Film and Critical and Cultural Theory in the Comparative Literature Program at
the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Swept Away: The Uses
and Abuses of Domesticity (forthcoming) and has published articles on
domesticity, documentary and feminist experimental film and video in journals
such as Screen, Jump Cut and Semiotica… CAROL MAVOR is an Associate
Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and serves as
adjunct professor for Communication Studies. Her publications include Pleasures
Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss (1995), ‘Becoming’ (Genre, Autumn
1996), and forthcoming articles on the Victorian photographer Clementina
Hawarden. She is currently completing a book on Hawarden, which emphasizes a
queer focus on maternal and adolescence eroticism… PATRICK D.MURPHY is