Reconstruction 6.2 (Spring 2006)
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Contributors
James Ambury is a Masters candidate in the Philosophy and Social Policy Program at American University in Washington, DC. He holds a BA in Philosophy from New York University and is primarily interested in Ancient Philosophy (Plato), 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, and Political Philosophy.
Rob Cover is senior lecturer in media studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He researches and writes on queer theory, new media theory (including electronic gaming), and subjectivity/identity within contemporary cultural formations.
Julie Elaine Goodspeed-Chadwick researches literary theory, women’s literature, trauma studies, and identity politics. She has eleven articles published or forthcoming in journals indexed in The Modern Language Association International Bibliography, spanning genres and time periods in American, Australian, and British literature. Specifically, she is invested in a feminist examination of the links between trauma and identity in connection with female bodies in modernist literature. Currently writing her dissertation on feminist responses to trauma in early twentieth-century American literature, she is affiliated with Ball State University.
William S. Haney II, a University of California at Davis Ph.D., has taught at universities in the United States and abroad and is currently professor of English at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. His books (such as Culture and Consciousness, Bucknell U P, 2002) and edited collections focus on contemporary British and American literature and culture, often from a consciousness studies perspective. His most recent book is Cyberculture, Cyborgs, and Science Fiction: Consciousness and the Posthuman, Rodopi 2006.
Larry M. Taylor is an independent critic and art historian. He has written on minimalism, relationships between art and literature, skepticism in late nineteenth-century art, spirituality in art, and contemporary art. His last review for Reconstruction was on the work of Barbara Kendrick and Timothy van Laar. He is currently an Instructor in the Visual Arts Department at South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota.
Joseph Thomas is a poet and scholar. He lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches contemporary poetry, children's literature, and poetry writing at California State University, Northridge. His first book, Poetry's Playground: The Culture of Contemporary American Children's Poetry, will be published as part of Wayne State University Press's Landscapes of Childhood series in late 2006.
Michael Vastola is a graduate student in the Department of English at the University of Florida. His current research deals with the intersection between class, space and theories of ideology, particularly as they manifest themselves in rhetorical practices and historical acts of written communication.
Conrad William possesses a BA in Religion and History (Hillsdale College) and an MA in English from the University of St. Thomas. He has also done extended master’s level studies in biblical exegesis and theology. Currently, he is a student of language and culture in Central Asia.