CONTRIBUTORS

ANTONY ADOLF is Editor-in-Chief of the c/art-el collective language group, a global language services company based in Vancouver. He has written numerous essays on multilingualism and modern literature, including for Entertext and Theatron, and is currently working on two book-length projects: Modernist Multilingualisms and their Aftermaths: An Inquiry into their Poetries, Philosophies and Politics, and long poem, The Corpus Hermeticum: A Neo-Poundian Trans-Substantiation.

PAUL BAGGULEY is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leeds. His main interests are in the areas of the sociology of protest, social movements, economic sociology, urban sociology, racism and ethnicity. Journals in which his work appears include The Sociological Review, Social Movement Studies and the Canadian Journal of Sociology. He is also co- author of Restructuring Place, Class and Gender (Sage, 1989) and has co- edited books including Transforming Politics: Power and Resistance (Macmillan, 1999).

DAVID BELL is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, having previously been Professor of Cultural Studies at Staffordshire University. His main research interests include urban and rural cultures, sexuality, consumption and lifestyle, science and technology and cultural policy. His recent publications include An Introduction to Cybercultures (Routledge, 2001) Cyberculture: The Key Concepts with Brian Loader, Nicholas Pleace and Dough Schuler (Routledge, 2004) and City of Quarters with Mark Jayne (Ashgate, 2004).

IVAN CALLUS is Lecturer in English at the University of Malta, where he teaches courses in literary theory and contemporary narrative. He is working on a book on the anagram notebooks of Ferdinand de Saussure and his current research interests include work on thanatography and on cultural memory in the Mediterranean. He is the co-editor of Discipline and Practice: The (Ir)resistibility of Theory (Bucknell University Press, 2004; forthcoming), and is currently co-authoring a volume on Posthumanism, Science and Literature (with Stefan Herbrechter). 402 Contributors

LOU F. CATON teaches world and American literature at Westfield State College. Having published shorter articles on Don DeLillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Chang-Rae Lee and other contemporary novelists, he is currently working on a manuscript entitled The American Novel and Multicultural Aesthetics in an Anti-Metaphysical World. Along with Emory Elliott, Caton is also co-editor of a collection of essays called Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age (Oxford, 2002).

ELIZABETH BURNS COLEMAN is Lecturer in Philosophy in the School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia. Her research interests include applied ethics, cultural appropriation, aboriginal art, group rights and religious tolerance. She is the author of Aboriginal Art, Identity and Appropriation (Ashgate, 2005), and has published articles in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and the Journal of Political Philosophy.

IPEK DEMIR is ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Her recent DPhil thesis, from the University of Sussex, focused on the works of Thomas Kuhn and Alasdair MacIntyre, in particular their ideas on community, tradition and incommensurability. She has also written papers on “failed states” and imperialism, and for the Political Studies Association.

RENÉE DICKASON is Professor in British History and Cultural Studies at the University of Caen, France. She is the author of several articles and edited collections in the fields of fiction and history, intertextuality, propaganda and the media. Her recent publications include the books Vers la paix en Irlande du Nord (Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2000) and British Television Advertising: Cultural communication and Identity (Luton University Press, 2000). She is currently writing British Society through its Television Programmes.

OLEG DOMANOV is a Researcher at the Novosibirsk Institute for Philosophy and Law, Novosibirsk, Russia. His recent publications include Giorgio Agamben, Language and death // Being and language (Novosibirsk, 2004), as well as writings on the social ontology of Jean-Luc Nancy.

DI DRUMMOND is Senior Lecturer in History at Trinity and All Saints, Leeds, UK. She has a number of publications on railway history and the history of Higher Education including Crewe: Railway Town, Company and People, 1840-1914 (Aldershot, 1995); The First Civic University: