... Copyright © 2014 Qui Parle 2014 Contributors branka arsić is professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. She is the author of On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson (2010), and a book on Melville titled Passive Consti- tutions or 7½ Times Bartleby (2007). She...

... Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 Contributors megan alvarado saggese is a graduate student in rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. antony anghie is Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law in the S. J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. His re- search...

... Contributors michael bérubé is the director of the Institute for the Arts and Hu- manities at Penn State University. His most recent book is The Left at War (2009). gert biesta is professor of education at the School of Education of the University of Stirling, UK. His work focuses...

... Copyright © 2010 Qui Parle 2010 Contributors paola bacchetta is associate professor of gender and women’s stud- ies at the University of California, Berkeley, the author of Gender in the Hindu Nation: RSS Women as Ideologists (New Delhi: Women Unlim- ited, 2003), and co-editor...

... is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Cal- ifornia, Davis. He is currently working on two book projects: The Ma- terials: Technoscience and Poetry at the Limits of Fabrication examines concepts of form and practices of fabrication in nanoscale materials sci- ence and contemporary...

...Elizabeth Freeman Copyright © 2010 Qui Parle 2010 “We’re Only Making Plans for Nigel” In Response to Didier Eribon elizabeth freeman I would like to begin with the keyword that haunts Professor Di- dier Eribon’s lyrical and tenacious piece: survival. Colloquially, to survive...

.... stephen dillon is assistant professor of queer studies in the School of Critical Social Inquiry at Hampshire College. His re- search on race, sexuality, feminism, and incarceration has appeared in Radical History Review, Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, and the edited collection...

...: A History of Modern Aural- ity (Zone Books, 2010). Currently he is working on a book on intellectual property law that will be published by Duke University Press. eli friedlander is professor of philosophy at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Signs of Sense: Reading Wittgenstein’s “Tractatus...

... become skewed so that professors are evaluated solely on the basis of their scholarly out- put rather than on the basis of their teaching, with the result that the educational mission has been sacrifi ced to research. The com- mitment to research is particularly destructive, this argument con...

... Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 Contributors john brenkman is Distinguished Professor of English and Com- parative Literature at the cuny Graduate Center and Baruch Col- lege. He is the author most recently of The Cultural Contradictions of Democracy: Political Thought since...

... NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ERIC BAKER is assistant professor in the department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch at the University of Minnesota. He has published articles on Kafka; Kant, Schiller, and Kleist, and Lucretius (forthcoming, Cambridge Companion series). He...

... Copyright © 2009 Qui Parle 2009 Contributors talal asad is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the City Univer- sity of New York Graduate Center. He works on questions of religion and secularism in modernity. Major publications include On Suicide Bombing; Formations...

... "Thinking at the Limit: The Logic of Liberal Reform and Radical Politics in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Britain." MIKKEL BORCH-JACOBSEN is a philosopher and professor in the Departments of French and Comparative Literature at the Uni- versity of Washington. He is the author of several...

... 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...

.... W. F. Hegel, and Georges Ba- taille.” He is also in the process of co- translating François Laru- elle’s Théorie générale des victimes into English. roberto esposito is full professor of theoretical philosophy and the coordinator of the doctoral program in philosophy in the Scuo- la Normale...

... Contributors karen barad is professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She is the author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the En- tanglement of Matter and Meaning (2007) and numerous articles...

... Copyright © 2012 Qui Parle 2012 Contributors elizabeth abel is a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work spans two broad fi elds of inquiry. The fi rst is gender theory, psychoanalysis, and twentieth-century fi ction (especially Woolf and Morrison...

... Contributors gil anidjar is associate professor in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures and in the Department of Religion at Co- lumbia University. His most recent book is Semites: Race, Religion, Lit- erature (Stanford, 2008). jennifer doyle is associate...

... NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS MARK ANTLIFF, Associate Professor of Art History at Duke University, is author of Inventing Bergson: Cultural Politics and the Parisian Avant-Garde (Princeton University Press, 1993); co-editor, with Matthew Affron, of Fascist Visions: Art...

... Bound to Appear: Site, Subjection, and the Disfiguration of Slavery in American Art. SAIDIYA V. HARTMAN is associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth...