Branka Arsić is Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University where she teaches the literature of the 19th century Americas and their scientific, philosophical and religious contexts. She is the author, most recently, of Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau (Harvard 2016), which was awarded the MLA James Russell Lowell prize for the outstanding book of 2016. Her other books include On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson (Harvard 2010), and a book on Melville, Passive Constitutions or 7½ Times Bartleby (Stanford 2007). She edited a collection of essays American Impersonal: Essays with Sharon Cameron (Bloomsbury 2014), and co-edited (with Cary Wolfe) a collection of essays on Emerson, entitled The Other Emerson: New Approaches, Divergent Paths (Minnesota 2010) and (with Kim Evans) Melville’s Philosophies (Bloomsbury 2017). Her work has appeared in such journals as Common Knowledge, Diacritics, ELH, J19, Leviathan, New England Quarterly, Nineteenth Century Prose, Qui Parle?, Representations, Telos and Textual Practice.
Jane Bennett is Professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University where she teaches ecological philosophy, American political thought, political rhetoric and persuasion, and contemporary social theory. She is the author of Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Duke 2010), Thoreau’s Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild (Rowman & Littlefield 2002), The Enchantment of Modern Life (Princeton 2001), and Unthinking Faith and Enlightenment (NYU 1987). Professor Bennett is one of the founders of the journal Theory & Event, and is currently the editor of Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy. She has been a Fellow at Oxford University (Keble College), Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities (University of London), and the Humanities Research Centre at Australian National University.
William Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor at Johns Hopkins University where he teaches political theory. His work focuses on the issues of democratic pluralism, capitalism, inequality and planetary ecologies. His recent books include Aspirational Fascism: The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy (Minnesota 2017), Facing The Planetary: Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming (Duke 2017), The Fragility of Things: Self-Organizing Systems, Neoliberal Fantasies and Democratic Activism (Duke 2017), Capitalism and Christianity, American Style (Duke 2008), A World of Becoming (Duke 2011), Pluralism (Duke 2005), Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed (Minnesota 2002), and Why I Am Not A Secularist (Minnesota 1999). His early book, The Terms of Political Discourse (Princeton 1993), was awarded the Benjamin Lippincott Award in 1999. Professor Connolly has been a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study and the Stanford Center for Behavioral Studies. In 2017 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award by the International Studies Association. He is co-moderator of, and regular contributor to, the Blog The Contemporary Condition.
Kristen Hessler is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University at Albany where she teaches political philosophy with a focus on human rights, as well as environmental ethics, feminist philosophy, and public health ethics. She has published articles in, among other journals, Environmental Ethics, The Monist, Journal of Political Philosophy, as well as book chapters in volumes from Oxford and Cambridge. She is currently at work on a book about women’s health and human rights.
Kir Kuiken is Associate Professor at the University at Albany where he teaches British and European Romanticism, critical theory, contemporary political and aesthetic theory, and film. He is the author of Imagined Sovereignties: Toward a New Political Romanticism (Fordham 2014), and articles on Derrida, Deleuze, Ranciere, Wordsworth, Goethe, and Shelley, among others. He is also a member of the Derrida Seminars Translation Project.
Vesna Kuiken is visiting assistant professor at the University at Albany where she teaches American literature, literary theory, ecocriticism, posthumanism, and biopolitics. She is currently completing a manuscript Islandic Life: Archipelagic Imaginaries in American Literature. Her work has appeared in the collection American Impersonal: Essays with Sharon Cameron (Bloomsbury, 2014), and journals J19, Nineteenth-Century Prose, and the Henry James Review. She is the recipient of the Leon Edel Prize for the best essay on Henry James in 2016.
Gregg Lambert is Dean’s Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University. He is the author of thirteen books and critical editions, and over eighty articles on the contemporary Humanities, critical theory and philosophy, Baroque and Neo-Baroque cultural history. He frequently lectures and teaches internationally and in 2013 was invited as a Visiting Distinguished Professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, Ewha University, Seoul National University, and University of California at Irvine. He is also Founding Director of the SU Humanities Center and Principal Investigator of the Central New York Humanities Corridor, as well as member of the International Advisory Board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes. Professor Lambert directed and co-directed several other major multi-institutional research and interdisciplinary initiatives, including the Society for the Study of Biopolitical Futures, the Trans-Disciplinary Media Studio, and The Perpetual Peace Project.
James Lilley is Associate Professor at the University at Albany where he teaches American and British literature, political and critical theory, and philosophy. He is the author of Common Things: Romance and the Aesthetics of Belonging in Atlantic Modernity (Fordham 2013), editor of the collection Cormac McCarthy: New Directions (New Mexico 2014), and author of a number of essays that appeared in ELH, New Literary History, MELUS, and Mississippi Review. Professor Lilley is currently completing the manuscript Impersonal Movements: On Literature and Gesture.
Jeffrey Nealon is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Philosophy at Penn State University. He is the author of six books, three of which are on biopower: Foucault Beyond Foucault (Stanford 2008), Post-Postmodernism; or, The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism (Stanford 2012) and Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetable Life (Stanford 2016). He has co-authored (with Susan Searls Giroux) The Theory Toolbox (Rowman & Littlefield 2003), and co-edited (with Caren Irr) Rethinking the Frankfurt School (SUNY, 2002). Professor Nealon publishes widely on contemporary literary and cultural theory in journals including Critical Inquiry, Cultural Critique, PMLA, Modern Fiction Studies, SAQ, and Postmodern Culture.
Karen Pinkus is Professor of Romance Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell where she is also editor of Diacritics. A Comparatist with work in Italian, literary theory, film and visual studies, for over a decade her writing and teaching have focused on climate change. She is author of Fuel, A Speculative Dictionary (Minnesota 2016) as well as numerous articles. She is currently completing a new book titled Down There, exploring the subsurface as a place of extraction, but also burial of carbon and other matters, through fantasies, narratives, geological writings and critical theory. Her work in this area has been recognized with grants from the Oxford Environmental Change Institute, the Center for Energy and Environment in the Human Sciences at Rice University, and the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell. With Los Angeles-based artist Hans Baumann she is creating an installation on geothermal heat and deep time titled “Crystalline Basement” (to be shown at the Cornell 2018 Biennial).
Thangam Ravindranathan is Associate Professor in the Department of French Studies at Brown University where she teaches 20th- and 21st-century literature and criticism, critical theory, poetry, narratives of travel, the contemporary novel, the question of the animal, and ecological perspectives. She is the author of Là où je ne suis pas: récits de dévoyage (Vincennes 2012). She coauthored (with Antoine Traisnel) Donner le change (Éditions Hermann 2016) and is currently completing the manuscript Animals Missing.
Morton Schoolman is Professor at the University at Albany where he teaches modern political and social theory. He is the author of Reason and Horror: Critical Theory, Democracy, and Aesthetic Individuality (Routledge 2001) and The Imaginary Witness: The Critical Theory of Herbert Marcuse (Free Press 1980). He is currently completing a manuscript on Whitman, Adorno, Bergson, and Deleuze, entitled Democratic Enlightenment: Political Education through the Visual Image, parts of which have appeared in the Journal for Cultural Research and Polity. Professor Schoolman is coeditor (with David Campbell) The New Pluralism (Duke 2008), and serves as the editor of Rowman & Littlefield’s series Modernity and Political Thought. At the University at Albany he has received the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the President's Undergraduate Leadership Award.
Paul Stasi is Associate Professor at the University at Albany where he teaches 20th century Anglophone literature. He is the author of Modernism, Imperialism and the Historical Sense (Cambridge 2012), the co-editor (with Jennifer Greiman) of The Last Western: Deadwood and the End of American Empire (Continuum 2013) and the co-editor (with Josephine Park) of Ezra Pound in the Present: New Essays on Pound’s Contemporaneity (Bloomsbury 2016). His work has appeared in, among other journals, ELH, Novel, James Joyce Quarterly and Historical Materialism.
Jennifer Wenzel is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. Her book, Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond (Chicago and KwaZulu-Natal 2009), was awarded Honorable Mention for the Perkins Prize by the International Society for the Study of Narrative. She has co-edited (with Imre Szeman and Patricia Yaeger) an anthology of keywords on energy, Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment (Fordham 2017). Her essays on postcolonial theory, ecocriticism and environmental humanities, memory studies, postconsumerism, petrocultures, and African and South Asian literatures have appeared in journals including Alif, Cultural Critique, Modern Fiction Studies, PMLA, Postcolonial Studies, Public Culture, Research in African Literatures, and Resilience. She has held fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, ACLS, NEH, and Princeton University's Davis Center for Historical Studies.
Jane Bennett is Professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University where she teaches ecological philosophy, American political thought, political rhetoric and persuasion, and contemporary social theory. She is the author of Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Duke 2010), Thoreau’s Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild (Rowman & Littlefield 2002), The Enchantment of Modern Life (Princeton 2001), and Unthinking Faith and Enlightenment (NYU 1987). Professor Bennett is one of the founders of the journal Theory & Event, and is currently the editor of Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy. She has been a Fellow at Oxford University (Keble College), Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities (University of London), and the Humanities Research Centre at Australian National University.
William Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor at Johns Hopkins University where he teaches political theory. His work focuses on the issues of democratic pluralism, capitalism, inequality and planetary ecologies. His recent books include Aspirational Fascism: The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy (Minnesota 2017), Facing The Planetary: Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming (Duke 2017), The Fragility of Things: Self-Organizing Systems, Neoliberal Fantasies and Democratic Activism (Duke 2017), Capitalism and Christianity, American Style (Duke 2008), A World of Becoming (Duke 2011), Pluralism (Duke 2005), Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed (Minnesota 2002), and Why I Am Not A Secularist (Minnesota 1999). His early book, The Terms of Political Discourse (Princeton 1993), was awarded the Benjamin Lippincott Award in 1999. Professor Connolly has been a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study and the Stanford Center for Behavioral Studies. In 2017 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award by the International Studies Association. He is co-moderator of, and regular contributor to, the Blog The Contemporary Condition.
Kristen Hessler is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University at Albany where she teaches political philosophy with a focus on human rights, as well as environmental ethics, feminist philosophy, and public health ethics. She has published articles in, among other journals, Environmental Ethics, The Monist, Journal of Political Philosophy, as well as book chapters in volumes from Oxford and Cambridge. She is currently at work on a book about women’s health and human rights.
Kir Kuiken is Associate Professor at the University at Albany where he teaches British and European Romanticism, critical theory, contemporary political and aesthetic theory, and film. He is the author of Imagined Sovereignties: Toward a New Political Romanticism (Fordham 2014), and articles on Derrida, Deleuze, Ranciere, Wordsworth, Goethe, and Shelley, among others. He is also a member of the Derrida Seminars Translation Project.
Vesna Kuiken is visiting assistant professor at the University at Albany where she teaches American literature, literary theory, ecocriticism, posthumanism, and biopolitics. She is currently completing a manuscript Islandic Life: Archipelagic Imaginaries in American Literature. Her work has appeared in the collection American Impersonal: Essays with Sharon Cameron (Bloomsbury, 2014), and journals J19, Nineteenth-Century Prose, and the Henry James Review. She is the recipient of the Leon Edel Prize for the best essay on Henry James in 2016.
Gregg Lambert is Dean’s Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University. He is the author of thirteen books and critical editions, and over eighty articles on the contemporary Humanities, critical theory and philosophy, Baroque and Neo-Baroque cultural history. He frequently lectures and teaches internationally and in 2013 was invited as a Visiting Distinguished Professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, Ewha University, Seoul National University, and University of California at Irvine. He is also Founding Director of the SU Humanities Center and Principal Investigator of the Central New York Humanities Corridor, as well as member of the International Advisory Board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes. Professor Lambert directed and co-directed several other major multi-institutional research and interdisciplinary initiatives, including the Society for the Study of Biopolitical Futures, the Trans-Disciplinary Media Studio, and The Perpetual Peace Project.
James Lilley is Associate Professor at the University at Albany where he teaches American and British literature, political and critical theory, and philosophy. He is the author of Common Things: Romance and the Aesthetics of Belonging in Atlantic Modernity (Fordham 2013), editor of the collection Cormac McCarthy: New Directions (New Mexico 2014), and author of a number of essays that appeared in ELH, New Literary History, MELUS, and Mississippi Review. Professor Lilley is currently completing the manuscript Impersonal Movements: On Literature and Gesture.
Jeffrey Nealon is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Philosophy at Penn State University. He is the author of six books, three of which are on biopower: Foucault Beyond Foucault (Stanford 2008), Post-Postmodernism; or, The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism (Stanford 2012) and Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetable Life (Stanford 2016). He has co-authored (with Susan Searls Giroux) The Theory Toolbox (Rowman & Littlefield 2003), and co-edited (with Caren Irr) Rethinking the Frankfurt School (SUNY, 2002). Professor Nealon publishes widely on contemporary literary and cultural theory in journals including Critical Inquiry, Cultural Critique, PMLA, Modern Fiction Studies, SAQ, and Postmodern Culture.
Karen Pinkus is Professor of Romance Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell where she is also editor of Diacritics. A Comparatist with work in Italian, literary theory, film and visual studies, for over a decade her writing and teaching have focused on climate change. She is author of Fuel, A Speculative Dictionary (Minnesota 2016) as well as numerous articles. She is currently completing a new book titled Down There, exploring the subsurface as a place of extraction, but also burial of carbon and other matters, through fantasies, narratives, geological writings and critical theory. Her work in this area has been recognized with grants from the Oxford Environmental Change Institute, the Center for Energy and Environment in the Human Sciences at Rice University, and the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell. With Los Angeles-based artist Hans Baumann she is creating an installation on geothermal heat and deep time titled “Crystalline Basement” (to be shown at the Cornell 2018 Biennial).
Thangam Ravindranathan is Associate Professor in the Department of French Studies at Brown University where she teaches 20th- and 21st-century literature and criticism, critical theory, poetry, narratives of travel, the contemporary novel, the question of the animal, and ecological perspectives. She is the author of Là où je ne suis pas: récits de dévoyage (Vincennes 2012). She coauthored (with Antoine Traisnel) Donner le change (Éditions Hermann 2016) and is currently completing the manuscript Animals Missing.
Morton Schoolman is Professor at the University at Albany where he teaches modern political and social theory. He is the author of Reason and Horror: Critical Theory, Democracy, and Aesthetic Individuality (Routledge 2001) and The Imaginary Witness: The Critical Theory of Herbert Marcuse (Free Press 1980). He is currently completing a manuscript on Whitman, Adorno, Bergson, and Deleuze, entitled Democratic Enlightenment: Political Education through the Visual Image, parts of which have appeared in the Journal for Cultural Research and Polity. Professor Schoolman is coeditor (with David Campbell) The New Pluralism (Duke 2008), and serves as the editor of Rowman & Littlefield’s series Modernity and Political Thought. At the University at Albany he has received the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the President's Undergraduate Leadership Award.
Paul Stasi is Associate Professor at the University at Albany where he teaches 20th century Anglophone literature. He is the author of Modernism, Imperialism and the Historical Sense (Cambridge 2012), the co-editor (with Jennifer Greiman) of The Last Western: Deadwood and the End of American Empire (Continuum 2013) and the co-editor (with Josephine Park) of Ezra Pound in the Present: New Essays on Pound’s Contemporaneity (Bloomsbury 2016). His work has appeared in, among other journals, ELH, Novel, James Joyce Quarterly and Historical Materialism.
Jennifer Wenzel is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. Her book, Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond (Chicago and KwaZulu-Natal 2009), was awarded Honorable Mention for the Perkins Prize by the International Society for the Study of Narrative. She has co-edited (with Imre Szeman and Patricia Yaeger) an anthology of keywords on energy, Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment (Fordham 2017). Her essays on postcolonial theory, ecocriticism and environmental humanities, memory studies, postconsumerism, petrocultures, and African and South Asian literatures have appeared in journals including Alif, Cultural Critique, Modern Fiction Studies, PMLA, Postcolonial Studies, Public Culture, Research in African Literatures, and Resilience. She has held fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, ACLS, NEH, and Princeton University's Davis Center for Historical Studies.