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Former Students Randall Albers Kenneth Allan Samuel Baker James E. Brunson III Samuel Baker Anna Brzyski Benjamin David Timothy Erwin Robert Friedman Maki Fukuoka David Grubbs Ming Dong Gu Hannah Higgins Adam Jolles Elizabeth A. Kessler Darby Lewes Riccardo Marchi Stephen Paul Miller Alison Pearlman Rebecca Reynolds John Paul Ricco Edward Shanken Levi Smith Margaret Soltan Freida Tesfagiorgis Daniel Tiffany Orrin Wang Tina Yarborough Paul Young Rebecca Zorach Tanya Fernando	Current Students Eduardo de Almeida Matthew Hofer Anthony Raynsford Christa Robbins Michael Robbins Kris Cohen James Hodge
Randall Albers Chair Fiction Writing Department Columbia College Chicago 600 South Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60605 ralbers@popmail.colum.edu
Randall Albers chairs the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College Chicago,home to the Story Workshop approach and one of the largest graduate and undergraduate creative writing programs in the country. He is also founding producer of the Story Week Festival of Writers, now one of Chicago's largest literary festivals. His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Chicago Review, Northfield Magazine, Mendocino Review, F Magazine, Writing From Start to Finish, and elsewhere. A chapter from his novel-in-progress, All the World Before Them, appearing in the Summer 2001 issue of F Magazine, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Selections from his roundtable discussion with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Bharati Mukherjee, April Sinclair, Don De Grazia, and Geling Yan, "Censorship and the Writer's Voice," is forthcoming in F Magazine (Fall 2002). He is also co-writer and co-producer of the Story Workshop creative writing video tapes, "The Living Voice Moves" and Story from First Impulse to Final Draft," and has appeared at numerous national conferences on writing and the teaching of writing. A Certified Story Workshop Master Teacher, he is a former recipient of the Columbia College Teaching Excellence Award.
Kenneth D. Allan Assistant Professor of Art History Seattle University Department of Fine Arts 901 12th Avenue P.O. Box 222000 Seattle, WA 98122-1090 http://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/finearts/faculty/allan.html allank@seattleu.edu
Ken Allan is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Seattle University who specializes in post-WWII American & European art. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2005. Recent upper-division courses and seminars have included, "Space & Site in Contemporary Art" and "Art of the 1960s: Origins of Postmodernism." He is currently working on a book on artistic practice, social space and spectatorship in 1960s Los Angeles. Recent publications include a book review of Cecile Whiting's Pop L. A.: Art and the City in the 1960s for Art Journal and an essay on the notion of the avant-garde in 1950s Los Angeles in Archives of American Art Journal. He has also published catalog essays on Lee Lozano and David Reed in Blanton Museum of Art: American Art since 1900 (University of Texas at Austin, 2006), and articles and reviews on figures such as Ed Ruscha, Walter Hopps, Tim Hawkinson and Mark Allen in X-Tra Contemporary Art Quarterly (where Allan is on the editorial board). He has presented his work at conferences in the UK, Canada and the US. In 2007-2008, he was invited to speak at the Getty Center for the conference "Cote a Cote-Coast to Coast: Art and Jazz in France and California," and at a symposium accompanying the Ed Ruscha and Photography exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago.
Samuel Baker Assistant Professor Department of English University of Texas Austin, TX 78713 sebaker@mail.utexas.edu
Professor Baker's research interests lie in British and American literature and art, in media studies, and in the theory and philosophy of aesthetics and politics; his main specialization is as a Romanticist. His book project concerns British Romantic representations of the sea. It argues that when the Romantics envisioned the idea of universal culture, they did so within imaginative horizons fundamentally shaped by their experience of maritime empire.
James E. Brunson III Division of Student Affairs Northern Illinois University Campus Life Building Office 230 DeKalb, IL 60115 jbrunson@niu.edu
James Edward Brunson III is Assistant Vice President for Diversity and Equity at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. He received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from Northern Illinois University in 1977 and 1980 respectively, and Ph.D from the University of Chicago in 2006. Brunson continues his creative production as a studio artist, exhibiting watercolors and drawings at juried shows and art fairs. His scholarly interests are informed by race and representation in nineteenth and twentieth century America. Currently, he is working on two art history projects: "The Moor's Last Sigh: The Black Image in Nineteenth century North America," and "Colored" Champions: Baseball, Race, Gender, and Representation in the Gilded Age, 1879-1899."
Anna Brzyski Assistant Professor Department of Art University of Kentucky 207 Fine Arts Building Lexington, KY 40506-0022 Anna.Brzyski@uky.edu Homepage: http://www.uky.edu/~abrzy2/Index.htm
Anna Brzyski's research interests focus on Polish late 19th and early 20th century art. Her work has been published in Art Criticism, Centropa, and 19th Century Art Worldwide. She is currently finishing a book Domesticating Modernism: Art, Legitimacy and Nationalism in Fin-de-Siècle Poland, which will provide a systemic analysis of the process of Polish modernism's transformation from a marginal phenomenon into an academic practice. She has also published articles on Hegel and Baudelaire and on impact of English language on production of art historical knowledge, and is currently editing an anthology Partisan Canons, which examines production of art canons and canonical values in visual art.
Benjamin David Assistant Professor Department of Art History The Ohio State University 106 Hayes Hall, 108 North Oval Mall Columbus, OH 43210 voice: (614) 688-8177 fax: (614) 292-4401 david.46@osu.edu
Benjamin David specializes in Italian art from 1300-1600, with an emphasis on Early Renaissance painting. His scholarship and teaching engage the historical and theoretical implications of the practice of narrative in Renaissance art. He is at work on a book on this topic focusing on fifteenth-century Sienese painting. He has recently completed an essay on Renaissance illuminations of Dante's Divine Comedy. Other current projects include studies of the complex nature of the Renaissance relationship to classical antiquity and of the art of Botticelli. He has published articles in Studies in Iconography and Res. His essay "Narrative in Context: the Cassoni of Francesco di Giorgio," is forthcoming in Renaissance Siena: Art in Context (Ashgate Press).
Timothy Erwin Associate Professor Department of English University of Nevada, Las Vegas Box 455011 4505 Maryland Parkway Las Vegas, NV 89154-5011 timothy@unlv.edu
Timothy Erwin teaches a variety of courses, from the sophomore-level world literature survey to specialized graduate-level courses in visual culture. His interests range from scholarship to postmodern theory. His work often concerns shifting visual-verbal relations in British literature--writing that was actually illustrated by engravings or that alludes to visual images. Prof. Erwin took the PhD at the University of Chicago in 1984, where he studied with W. J. T. Mitchell. While in graduate school he edited several prize-winning numbers of Chicago Review. After that Professor Erwin taught at universities in California and New Jersey. He has participated in summer programs sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities at the Hobart and William Smith Colleges, UCSB, and Yale. Other summer grants have taken him to UCLA's Clark Library and the Yale Center for British Art. From 1995-1998 he served in the delegate assembly of the Modern Language Association. From 1996-2000 he served as associate editor and editor of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, published for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies by the Johns Hopkins University Press. His articles and reviews have appeared in Chicago Review, Eighteenth Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Life, Halcyon, Huntington Library Quarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, in the collections Visual Theory: Painting and Interpretation, Reconceptualizing Nature, Science, and Aesthetics: Contribution a une Nouvelle Approche des Lumieres Helvetiques, Approaches to the Teaching of Samuel Johnson, Image and Ideology in Modern / Postmodern Discourse, and elsewhere. At UNLV Professor Erwin directs the Multidisciplinary Studies Program and serves as Advisor to the English Honors Society Sigma Tau Delta. In 2000 he taught the modern French novel and contemporary critical theory at the University of Pau, France.
Robert Friedman FRIEDMAN_ROBERT_D@Lilly.com
Rob Friedman is associate professor at the University of Eli Lilly and Company. He lectures on a variety of subjects '¬± any subject, really. He writes speeches for Lilly's CEO and other top executives aimed at sustaining the pharmaceutical industry and its profits. Rob has also taught workshops on creativity, speechwriting and publications writing to thousands of professional communicators from around the country, written speeches for the CEOs of several Fortune 500 companies, and worked as a speechwriter for Ameritech and the American Medical Association. Some of these organizations are now defunct and Rob is now free on bond. Twelve of Rob's speeches have appeared in Vital Speeches of the Day and he is a published author of fiction and nonfiction. He studied literature at The Ohio State University and the University of Chicago and says he owes his career in pharmaceuticals to the mentoring on the subject by a professor at those schools.
Maki Fukuoka Ph.D. Student Department of Art History University of Chicago mfukuoka@gmail.com Maki Fukuoka works on visual culture of 19th century Japan with a particular emphasis on photographic representations and technology. Her dissertation 'Between Seeing and Knowing: Shifting Standards of Accuracy and the Concept of Shashin in Japan, 1830-1872' examines the process of formulating hakubutsu-gaku discourse, a field of study that combines Chinese and Japanese medical practice with theories of imported natural history, and the role of pictorial representations in establishing and validating the 'accuracy' of hakubutsu-gaku epistemology. She is interested in the intricate relationship between 'tradition' and 'modernity' in Japan and the ways in which their conflicting and often confusing relationships are represented or articulated visually. Her publications include 'Contextualising the peep-box in Tokugawa Japan' in Early Popular Visual Culture. She is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. Department of Asian Languages and Cultures Suite 6111 202 South Thayer Street Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608 phone (734) 763-9178
David Grubbs Assistant Professor of Radio and Sound Art Conservatory of Music Brooklyn College, CUNY 2900 Bedford Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11210 DGrubbs@brooklyn.cuny.edu
David Grubbs recently completed a Ph.D. dissertation entitled 'Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, The Sixties, and Sound Recording.' He regularly contributes music criticism to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and his criticism has appeared in Conjunctions, Bookforum, Texte zur Kunst, and Purple. As a recording artist, Grubbs has released nine full-length solo albums and appeared on more than 100 commercially-released recordings. In 2000, his album The Spectrum Between was named 'Album of the Year' in the London Sunday Times. David Grubbs was a founding member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait. He has participated in the Red Krayola since 1993. With Jim O'Rourke, Grubbs co-directed Dexter's Cigar, an acclaimed label that specialized in reissuing out-of-print recordings. At present Grubbs directs the Blue Chopsticks record label, which releases both new and archival recordings. Grubbs has been profiled in the Arte television documentary Lost in Music: Chicago Connections and the NHK (Japan) television documentary The Red Krayola. He is a 2005-6 grant recipient in Music/Sound from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
Ming Dong Gu Associate Professor Rhodes College Memphis, TN, 38112 gu@rhodes.edu
Ming Dong Gu is an associate professor of modern languages at Rhodes College. Author of two books, Chinese Theories of Reading and Writing: A Route to Hermeneutics and Open Poetics (SUNY Press 2005) and Chinese Theories of Fiction: A Non-Western Narrative System (SUNY Press 2006), he has published numerous journal articles, book chapters, and reviews. His articles appeared in New Literary History, Diacritics, Poetics Today, Narrative, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature Studies, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (twice), Literature and Psychology, D. H. Lawrence Review (twice), Journal of Oriental Studies, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Chinese Philosophy (twice), Philosophy East & West (twice), Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, Monumenta Serica, and Wenyi yanjiu [Literature and Art Studies]. He is the recipient of the 2006 Clarence Day Award for Outstanding Research and Creativity, Rhodes College.
Hannah Higgins Associate Professor Department of Art History The University of Illinois, Chicago 935 West Harrison Chicago, IL 60607 higgins@uic.edu
Since receiving a doctorate in Art History from the University of Chicago (1994), Hannah Higgins has pursued a career of university teaching, lecturing and writing on Fluxus, Happenings, the avant-garde, aesthetics and Marcel Duchamp. Fluxus Experience (University of California Press, 2002) is an adaptation of her thesis. In this book Higgins argues for the primary sensations typical of Fluxus objects and performances. The limitations of this cognitive framework for understanding Fluxus culturally have stimulated a new research direction that seeks to bring together theories of cognition and attitudes about communication in the postwar period. She is currently working on a book provisionally titled Thinking Across the Sensorium, which explores the production of cross-sensory cognitive material in the interdisciplinary and experimental classrooms of artists during this time in America. Research takes the form of case studies including Black Mountain College, Rutgers University, the New School for Social Research, and Cal Arts.
Adam Jolles Assistant Professor Department of Art History Florida State University 220-D Fine Arts Building Tallahassee, FL 32306-1151 ajolles@mailer.fsu.edu
Adam Jolles works on European avant-garde art, with a focus on French surrealism. His current interests include French colonialism and visual culture in the early twentieth century, and Stalinist exhibition practices in Russia.
Darby Lewes Associate Professor and Chair Department of English Lycoming College 700 College Place Williamsport, PA 17701 lewes@lycoming.edu Homepage:www.lycoming.edu/~lewes
Professor Lewes specializes in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Utopian Studies, and Women's Studies. She is the author of numerous articles. Her books include Dream Revisionaries: Genre and Gender in Women's Utopian Fiction 1870-1920 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995), Nudes from Nowhere: Utopian Sexual Landscapes (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), and A Brighter Morn: The Shelley Circle's Utopian Project (forthcoming from Rowan and Littlefield). She is currently working on Radical Housekeeping: Utopian Domestic Fictions (co-authored with Susan Foster).
Riccardo Marchi Visiting Professor Scuola di Specializzazione in Storia dell'Arte Università Cattolica Milan, Italy riccardomarchi@tiscali.it
Riccardo Marchi's research and teaching interests include: modern art (in particular 19th and early 20th century France, Expressionism, abstraction in painting); critical theory, in particular the problems of representation, of vision and of the relationship between words and images; the methodology and historiography of art history; the history of art criticism. His Italian translation of Max Dvořák's Idealismus und Naturalismus in der gotischen Skulptur und Malerei (1918), together with an essay on Dvořák's project of Geistesgeschichte, was published by Franco Angeli, Milan, in 2003. He is working on a book on the practice, theory and reception of Umberto Boccioni, Robert Delaunay and Wassily Kandinsky between 1912 and 1913.
Stephen Paul Miller Associate Professor of English St. John's University 300 Howard Avenue Staten Island, NY 10301 millers@stjohns.edu Stephen Paul Miller is an Associate Professor of English at St, John's University in New York City. He is the author of The Seventies Now: Culture as Surveillance (Duke University Press, 1999). This book "micro-periodizes" the seventies by utilizing the discourses of politics, poetry, and painting around the phenomena of Watergate, John Ashbery's "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror," and Jasper John's mid-seventies crosshatch paintings so as to note the "rippling epistemes" through which the upheavals of the sixties yield to the Reagan eighties by way of the Watergate era.
Miller is also the author of three books of poems, The Bee Flies in May (Marsh Hawk Press, 2002), Art Is Boring for the Same Reason We Stayed in Vietnam (Domestic Press, 1992), That Man Who Ground Moths into Film (New Observations, 1982). His latest poetry book, The Bee Flies in May, contains a long poem entitled "Row," relates the Holocaust, suburbia, and computerization. The poem draws in surprising ways on the work of Alan Turing, Hannah Arendt, and Raymond Williams. Miller is currently formulating an academic project based on the poem. He also, with Terence Diggory, co-edited The Scene of My Selves: New Work on New York School Poets (the University of Maine in Orono's National Poetry Foundation, 2001), the first collection of essays concerning more than one of the poets of the New York School of Poetry. His plays have been performed at The Kitchen, P.S. 122, the Bowery Poetry Club, the St. Mark's Poetry Project, the Pyramid Club, the Mudd Club, and 8BC in New York; Intersection and La Mamelle in San Francisco; the University of Vermont in Burlington; and many other venues. His artwork has been exhibited at P.S. 1 in Long Island City, ABC No Rio, the Ben Shawn Gallery of Paterson University, and other galleries. Among the artists with whom he has collaborated are Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Beth Anderson, Jackson MacLow, Robert Ashley, Billy Bergman, Taylor Mead, Linda Francis, Lucio Pozzi, David Shapiro, Kenward Elmslie, Jim Hayes, Kenneth Deifik, Michael Cooper, Naomi Goldberg, Yvonne Jacquette, Marcia Resnick, Pooh Kaye, Bruce Brand, Tom Fink, Noah Miller, Marjorie Welish, and Sandy MacIntosh. In the seventies, Miller edited the Poetry Mailing List, which used mail art to distribute single authors such as John Cage, Kathy Acker, Joel Oppenheimer, Peter Schjeldahl, Rudy Burkhardt, David Shapiro, and many others. Likening poetry readings in Soho on Saturday afternoons to art exhibitions, Miller started the Ear Inn poetry series in 1978. In 1985, Miller conceived and edited The National Poetry Magazine of the Lower East Side, the first "instant" magazine that authors produced on the spot. It has inspired similar magazines throughout the nation. Miller's work has appeared in Best American Poetry 1994, boundary 2, Talisman, St. Mark's Poetry Project Newsletter, Another Chicago Magazine, Open City, Shofar, New Observations, American Letters & Commentary, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Boog City, Poetry New York, The Columbia Review, Poetry New York, Mudfish, Le Petite Zine, the Bowery Poetry Club website, Scripsi, Proteus, Tamarind, Appearances, The New Journal, Poetry in Performance, The Paterson Review, Controlled Burn, and elsewhere. Miller has received research grants from the NEH, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library Foundation, and the Columbia University Seminars Office. In 1996 and 1997, he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Krakow, Poland, where he was a professor at Jagiellonian University. In addition to teaching at St. John's University and Jagiellonian University, he has taught American literature, cultural studies, and creative writing at Columbia University, New York University.

Alison Pearlman Professor Liberal Arts and Sciences Department Art Center College of Design 1700 Lida Street Post Office Box 7197 Pasadena, CA 91109 alisonpearlman@yahoo.com Homepage: http://www.thealisonfiles.homestead.com
Alison Pearlman is the author of Unpackaging Art of the 1980s (University of Chicago Press, Spring 2003). After receiving her Ph.D. from the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago in December 1997, she became Assistant Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, until 2001. While there, she co-authored the comprehensive catalogue of the museum's collection, entitled Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain: Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Collection (MCA, 2002). She then moved to Los Angeles, and became a member of the faculty at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. She continues to teach contemporary art history and cultural theory there. As a writer, she mixes genres and hopes to transcend niches. Her American Council on Exercise certification (1996) and work as a personal trainer to support the tail-end of her dissertation writing prompted her to write "AB(dominal) EX(pressionism): Notes Toward an Art Criticism for Bodybuilding," in Cakewalk (Summer/Fall 2000). Pearlman's most recent articles include "The Other Bohemia" (forthcoming in Southwest Review), an attempt to define a subculture of performers within the pop-culture entertainment industry of Los Angeles. Pearlman is now at work on the essay, "From Ground Rules to Horizon Lines." It introduces an unusual artistic collective, "Interstices," and reflects on the contemporary group's first exhibition of collaborative work, opening at California State Polytechnic University's Kellogg Gallery in March of 2003. She was awarded the McGinnis-Ritchie Award for best nonfiction published by the literary journal Southwest Review in 2003. The essay is entitled "The Other Bohemia."
Rebecca Reynolds Assistant Professor Art Department University of West Georgia rlreynol@uchicago.edu http://home.uchicago.edu/~rlreynol/
Rebecca Lee Reynolds works on post-World War II American sculpture, landscape design, and exhibition practices. She recently completed her dissertation, "From Green Cube to Site: Site-Specific Practices at American Sculpture Parks and Gardens, 1965-1987." In 2006-2007 she was a Junior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks in the Garden and Landscape Studies program, followed by a summer residency at the Terra Foundation for American Art in Giverny, France. Beginning August 2008, she will be an Assistant Professor in the Art Department at the University of West Georgia.
John Paul Ricco Assistant Professor Contemporary Art History, Media Theory, and Criticism and Coordinator Visual Culture and Communication Program University of Toronto at Mississauga CCT Building, Room 3057 Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6 Canada john.ricco@utoronto.ca
Homepage: http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/cvmc/faculty/ricco.html John Paul Ricco is a critical theorist, art historian and curator who currently teaches at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Logic of the Lure (University of Chicago Press, 2002), and Guest Editor of the journal Parallax (vol. 11, no. 2, April-June 2005). He served as Chair of the Editorial Board of Art Journal (2004-2006), and is also affiliated with the critical theory and science studies journal ISSUES, and the research centre and curatorial/art space LITMUS (Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand). He has also taught at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Cornell University and, at Texas Tech University where he received an Outstanding Teacher Award from the honor societies Omicron Delta Kappa and Mortar Board. His current work concerns the question of community, specifically those modes of sociality that operate as the resistance and refusal of identitarian logics, categorical imperatives, and structural unification and totalization. Recently, this work has begun to include live performance art practice, in which Ricco sets out to explore masochistic touch and masochistic trust, and the non-contractual, non-negotiable limits of these acts.
Edward Shanken Executive Director Information Science + Information Studies Duke University, Box 9400 2204 Erwin Road Durham, NC 27708-0400 giftwrap@duke.edu
Edward Shanken is Executive Director of the Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS) program at Duke University, which supports interdisciplinary collaborations involving creative uses of technology. He is editor of Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology and Consciousness (University of California Press, 2003) and author of Art and Electronic Media (Phaidon Press, 2004). He has lectured internationally on art and technology, including Einstein Meets Magritte (Brussels), ISEA (Rotterdam), Consciousness Reframed (Wales), and SIGGRAPH (Los Angeles). He was Director of Visual Research for Reactive Search, Inc., a software company based in Durham. Dr. Shanken earned his Ph.D. in Art History from Duke University, his MBA from Yale, and has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Duke's Center for Teaching and Learning, and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Levi Smith Instructor Department of Visual and Critical Studies The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 37 South Wabash, 10th Floor Chicago, IL 60603-3103
Levi Smith has been an instructor in the Department of Visual and Critical Studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 1986. He has also served as an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Museum Education since 1983. Professor Smith earned his BA (Art History) in 1974 from The University of Vermont and his MA (Art History) in 1984 from The University of Chicago. His MA thesis was titled, "The Self-Portraits of Pablo Picasso: 1896'¬±1907, A Study of the Evolution of the Persona of an Artist." In 1997, Levi Smith received his PhD, Art History from The University of Chicago; his dissertation was titled: "Objects of Remembrance: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Memory of the War." He recently published "Window or Mirror, The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Ambiguity of Remembrance," collected in Symbolic Loss: The Ambiguity of Mourning and Memory at Century's End, ed. Peter Homans (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2000). In addition, his works have been exhibited in such forums as: The 4th Annual Chicago Art Open 2001 (Late Autumn Woods is seen above), Chicago Artists Coalition, October 2001, Face Off, (Group Exhibition), Betty Rymer Gallery, SAIC, March'¬±May, 2001.
Margaret Soltan Associate Professor Department of English George Washington University Washington DC 20052 msoltan@gwu.edu
Margaret Soltan's journal articles, journalism pieces, and contributions to books have included work on Don DeLillo ("Don DeLillo and Loyalty to Reality" will be a chapter in the forthcoming MLA Guide to Teaching the Novels of Don DeLillo), Malcolm Lowry, James Merrill, postmodern architecture and interior design, film, intellectuals, responses to September 11, and, most recently, poetry (her essay, "Hoax Poetry in America," in the journal Angelaki, produced a lengthy response and exchange). She is currently working on a manuscript with a colleague, Jennifer Green, tentatively titled The Return of Beauty to Literary Studies. In spring of 2003, Professor Soltan will be Visiting Professor of American Literature at the University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France.
Freida High W. Tesfagiorgis Professor Department of Afro-American Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison 4121 White Hall, Helen C 600 N Park St Madison, WI 53706 high@facstaff.wisc.edu
As an artist, art historian, and professor, Freida Tesfagiorgis engages art historical facts and attendant theories, and produces visual forms that have changed in styles, themes, and media since the early seventies. She began her undergraduate study of art at Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa, then finished at Northern Illinois University where she earned a B.S. in Art Education. She studied painting and printmaking at the graduate level at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (M.A., M.F.A.). The institutions of her work in art history include Indiana University, Bloomington (African Art in the CIC program) as part of her M.F.A program, and the Ph.D. program at the University of Chicago (Primitivism and Modern Art; Visual Culture and Critical Race Theory). She has curated numerous exhibitions in her area and published essays in exhibition catalogues, periodicals and encyclopedias; e.g. Faith Ringgold: Twenty Year Retrospective; Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women; Women Studies Encyclopedia: Literature, Arts, and Learning. She is currently curating an exhibition of contemporary African art for the Elvehjem Museum. Her own work has been documented in The International Review of African American Art, Cross Cultures, and many other exhibition catalogues. She has exhibited at the Milwaukee Art Museum (WI), Grand Rapids Art Museum (MI), Fine Arts Museum of the South (AL), Studio Museum in Harlem (NY), National Gallery (Dakar, Senegal), Museo Arte Contemporanea di Gibellina (Palermo, Italy), and others. She sees an inextricable relationship between writing about art and producing art. In addition, she has developed a web site to help facilitate the study of a wealth of visual forms by artists of the African Diaspora. Through it, she proposes to share her creative and scholarly interests, provide an educational service to those interested in this relatively new area of Art History, and make available a slide resource for the students enrolled in her courses at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Daniel Tiffany Professor Department of English, Department of Comparative Literature University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089 tiffany@usc.edu
Daniel Tiffany is the author of Radio Corpse: Imagism and the Cryptaesthetic of Ezra Pound (Harvard 1995) and Toy Medium: Materialism and Modern Lyric (California 2000), named by the Los Angeles Times Book Review as one of "the Best Books of 2000." Professor Tiffany is also a poet and translator of works from French, Greek, and Italian, and his writings have been published in numerous journals and magazines.
Orrin Wang Associate Professor Department of English, Comparative Literature Program University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 ow5@umail.umd.edu
Orrin Wang is the author of Fantastic Modernity: Dialectical Readings in Romanticism and Theory (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996 & 2000) and a number of articles appearing in such journals as Diacritics, Studies in Romanticism, ELH, and MLQ. He is also the series editor of Romantic Circles Praxis. Visit the site at:http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/ For a Romantic Circles Praxis Interview with W. J. T. Mitchell, visit: http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/mitchell/index.html. Professor Wang is currently working on tropes of sensation and aphanisis in Romantic writing and later theory.
Tina Yarborough Associate Professor Department of Art History, Interdisciplinary Studies Georgia College and State University Milledgeville, GA 31061 tyarborough@gcsu.edu Homepage: http://fdsa.gcsu.edu:6060/tyarborough/
Paul Young Assistant Professor Department of English University of Missouri 107 Tate Hall (Tate 316L) Columbia, MO 65211 YoungPD@missouri.edu
Paul Young is currently completing a manuscript entitled The Cinema Dreams Its Rivals: New Media and Hollywood's Public Spheres, to be published by the University of Minnesota Press. Other published and forthcoming work includes essays on virtual reality films in the 1990s, film noir and its audiences, and the telegraph in early cinema. He teaches courses on film aesthetics, film theory, the city and modernity in fiction and film, Hitchcock, genre, and other issues in media and cultural studies. In 2001 he received the E. Roe Stamps Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he taught from 1998-2001.
Rebecca Zorach Harper-Schmidt Fellow Collegiate Assistant Professor University of Chicago Gates-Blake 217 Chicago, IL 60637 rezorach@midway.uchicago.edu Homepage:http://home.uchicago.edu/~rezorach
Rebecca Zorach works on sixteenth-century French and Italian art and contemporary art and theory, especially theory of gender and sexuality. She has published articles in Art History, Res, and Wired; she recently completed a book manuscript on abundance in the visual culture of Sixteenth-Century France, and has projects in the works on Renaissance prints and contemporary collaborative art.