... lead the emergency and reconstruction process on the devastated island. A few dissonant voices were heard, however, and four days 34 qui parle fall/winter 2013 vol. 22, no. 1 later the French minister of international cooperation, backed by Doctors without Borders, bitterly...

... received his doctorate in political science at the Albert- Ludwigs- Universität Freiburg in 2003. His dissertation was published under the title Selbstkritik der Moderne: Habermas und Foucault im Vergleich in 2005. From 2003 to 2009 he was a daad visiting assistant professor...

... is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of California, Berkeley. nikita dhawan is a junior professor of political science for gen- der/postcolonial studies at Goethe University in Frankfurt. She has held visiting fellowships at the Institute for International Law...

... September 11 (2007). Pre- vious work includes Culture and Domination (1989) and Straight Male Modern: A Cultural Critique of Psychoanalysis (1993). alyosha edlebi is a graduate student at Yale University. jordan greenwald is a doctoral candidate in English at the Uni- versity of California...

...-editing, with Patricia Leighten, an anthology of primary documents on Cubism, to be titled A Cubism Reader, 1906-1914 (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming). JENNIFER BETHKE is a doctoral candidate in the department of the History of Art at the University of California...

... as communications director for H.E.N.S. marta figlerowicz is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of California, Berkeley. betina gonzález-azcárate studied social communication at the Uni- versity of Buenos Aires, where she participates in several research projects on semiotics...

... scenes from the film and the discourse surrounding its release. On the one hand, the narrative is structured by a series of oppositions. Doctor/patient; black/white; therapy/hatred; freedom/prison; de- mocracy/fascism: these themes hold the narrative in place, under- scoring...

... to ecological and fi nancial catas- trophe in recent French thought. alex dubilet is a doctoral candidate in the department of rheto- ric at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently fi nish- ing his dissertation, “From Kenosis to Immanence: Self- Emptying in the Works of Meister Eckhart, G...

... Copyright © 2012 Qui Parle 2012 Contributors robert alford is a doctoral candidate in fi lm and media at the Univer- sity of California, Berkeley. His dissertation is an intermedial, transhistor- ical exploration of the musical genre that considers how the various me- diated forms...

... Copyright © 2003 Qui Parle 2003 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS JEREMY BRETT is a doctoral candidate in the Department of German at the University of California, Berkeley. He works on German poetic and philosophical texts from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries. He...

... Copyright © 2015 Qui Parle 2015 Contributors william callison is a doctoral candidate in political science with a designated emphasis in critical theory at the University of California, Berkeley. michael mark cohen teaches American studies and African American studies...

...: Rombach, 1996). CHRIS DIFFEE is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. His dissertation, A Natural Infamy, considers the novels of Emile Zola, Thomas Hardy, and Frank Norris in light of turn-of-the-century anxieties concerning...

.... My exploration of immunity is primarily influenced by my experience of synovitis acne pustulosis hyperostosis osteitis (SAPHO) syndrome, a chronic autoimmune disease with which I was diagnosed in the beginning of 2013. I was told by my doctor that my body had mistakenly started to attack itself...

..., the intolerable.”2 With this medical and scientifi c colonization, the disabled body “demand[s] genetic reconstruc- tion, surgical normalization, therapeutic elimination, or relegation to pathological specimen” (“FWE,” 4). Doctors probe, measure, and stare, but as the joke often goes...

... at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work considers the negotiation of landscapes in sites of environmental-political confl ict, examining how power functions in an ecological system. alenda y. chang is a doctoral candidate in the Rhetoric Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her...

..., No. 2, 2005 228 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS MARK PEDRETTI is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley. He is cur- rently at work on a dissertation about historicity and narrative form in early Cold War...

... Copyright © 2006 Qui Parle 2006 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS KELVIN C. BLACK is a doctoral candidate in he Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His essay in this issue is adapted from a chapter of his dissertation, which is pro- visionally entitled...

... eld where even experts were unable to agree on what consti- tuted the appropriate object of study. If I go to a doctor’s offi ce and witness doctors and nurses fi ghting about whether or not I should take a particular medica- tion, I’m likely to go elsewhere...

... Copyright © 2001 Qui Parle 2001 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS VINCENT CANNON is a doctoral student in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley, studying contemporary French intellectual history. STEVE EVANS is Assistant Professor at the University...

... was sidled up next to her while she slept in her wet. Im pretty sure I made it in reaction to “the human centipede,” a fi lm where a doctor attaches travelers by their intestinal tract but never really gets that far. I don’t think. 96 qui parle spring/summer 2012 vol...