The Contributors

Thamyris/Intersecting No. 20 (2010) 269–272 The Contributors Huub van Baar is a doctoral candidate at her dissertation, Jean-Léon Gérôme: The the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Formative Years (1855–1864), under the Faculty of Humanities, University of supervision of Michael Fried and Kathryn Amsterdam, and has published on Romani Tuma. memorial practices, Romani transnational networks, and minority governance in Sudeep Dasgupta is Associate Professor at Europe. His current work focuses on past the University of Amsterdam, and teaches and current forms of Romani minority media studies with a focus on visual culture, governance in Europe and the ways in which postcolonial theory, queer theory, and critical these forms relate to different conceptual- theory. His recent publications include izations of Europe. “Conjunctive times, Disjointed Time: Philosophy between Enigma and Nimrod Ben-Cnaan completed his thesis – Disagreement” in Parallax 52 (2009), entitled “A Comparative Study of Tropes “Words, Bodies, Times: Queer theory before of Cultural Pessimism in Postwar Britain and after itself” in borderlands 8.2 (2009), and France” – at the Centre for European and “Jacques Rancière” in Film, Theory and Studies at University College London in Philosophy: Key thinkers, edited by Felicity 2008. Colman (Acumen, 2009). He wrote the critical introduction to the joint Dutch translation Marc Brudzinski studies twentieth-century Het Esthetisch denken (Valiz, 2007) of Francophone and Hispanic Caribbean Jacques Rancière’s Partage du sensible and literature, and teaches at Purchase College, L’inconscient esthétique. He is the editor of State University of New York. His book the volume Constellations of the Island Secrets, on the discourses of Transnational: Modernity, Culture, Critique insularism and secrecy in Caribbean cultural (Rodopi, 2006). debates, is forthcoming from Lexington Books. Beatrix Hauser is presently interim professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Gülru Çakmak is an art historian specializing Heidelberg. In 1989 she received her in the eighteenth and the nineteenth Magister Artium from the University of centuries, who received her BA and MFA Hamburg and in 1997 her PhD on the basis degrees at Bilkent University (Ankara, of her research on a contemporary Bengali Turkey). Gülru’s growing interest in the tradition of storytelling that is performed politics of representation was supported by with the help of scroll paintings (Mit a full scholarship from the Department of irdischem Schaudern und göttlicher Fügung: Gender Studies at the Central European bengalische Erzähler und ihre University (Budapest, Hungary), where she Bildvorführungen, Berlin 1998). In 2009 she followed an intensive curriculum of feminist passed her habilitation at the University of criticism and acquired an MA in Gender Halle with a study on Hindu women in Orissa Studies. She received her MPhil degree at in their religious practices (Promising one of the leading programs in the field of Rituals: Doing Gender in Southern Orissa, visual studies, the Amsterdam School of India, Halle 2008). Hauser’s research Cultural Analysis at the University of interests are the anthropology of religion Amsterdam. Currently an advanced PhD (Hinduism, subaltern and transreligious candidate at Johns Hopkins University practices, spirit possession, notions of (Baltimore, Maryland), Gülru is working on im/purity), the anthropology of the body The Contributors | 269 (cultural concepts of body and self, body Intersubjectivities and Popular Culture: techniques, embodiment), the anthropology Bakhtin and Beyond (Stanford UP,2008) and of performance (changing aesthetics of co-editor, with Silke Horstkotte, of The Shock religious plays, ritual and political of the Other: Situating Alterities (Rodopi, performances), and gender (self-images and 2007) and, with María del Pilar Blanco, of identity, female religiosity). Popular Ghosts: The Haunted Spaces of Everyday Culture (Continuum, 2010). Anette Hoffmann is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Humanities Hanneke Stuit is a PhD candidate at the Research at the University of the Western Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis Cape in Cape Town, South Africa. She (ASCA), at the University of Amsterdam. She obtained her doctorate at the University of received her MA in Literary Studies from the Amsterdam in 2005 with a dissertation on same university in 2007. Her research deals praise poetry in Namibia and its poetic with the concept of ubuntu and the ways in construction of landscape and identities. which it relates to other (predominantly Currently, she is working on the history of an Western) concepts of communality and anthropometrical project by the German intersubjective relations. She is particularly artist Hans Lichtenecker in Namibia in interested in the possibilities of using 1931, and curating an exhibition (shown in ubuntu as an analytical tool when working Cape Town and Basel) containing visual and with cultural expressions, especially novels. sound materials of the collection. The exhibition catalogue, edited and co-authored Vannina Sztainbok currently teaches in the by Hoffmann, appeared as What We See. Department of Sociology and Equity Studies Reconsidering an Anthropometrical Collection in Education at the Ontario Institute for from Southern Africa: Images, Voices, and Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Versioning (Basel Afrika Bibliographien, where she recently completed her PhD. Her 2009). research interests include race, belonging and citizenship in Latin America; the politics Niamh Ann Kelly is an art writer and and psychodynamics of space, and black researcher. She lectures in Critical Theory at femininity in the Americas. This chapter the School of Art Design and Printing at the comes from her MA thesis of the same Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland. She name. Her doctoral dissertation, titled The also works as a freelance art critic and is Afro-Uruguayan Conventillo: Belonging and currently completing her PhD entitled the Fetish of Place and Blackness, explores “History by Proxy – Imaging the Great Irish the symbolic place occupied by a racialized Famine” at the Amsterdam School for neighborhood within the Uruguayan national Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam. imaginary. Saskia Lourens earned her PhD degree at Guy Thompson is an Associate Professor in the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis the Department of History and Classics at researching a dissertation on South African the University of Alberta in Edmonton, literature and cultural identity formation. Alberta; he completed his PhD at the She holds an Honor’s Degree in Fine Art University of Minnesota in 2000. His older from the University of Cape Town as well as work explores rural social dynamics, a Master’s Degree in English from the agrarian change, indigenous knowledge and University of Leiden. She currently teaches rural protest in colonial Zimbabwe. In his English at the Amsterdams Lyceum. current research he is considering how black Zimbabweans understood historical and Esther Peeren is Assistant Professor in cultural change in the colonial period, work Literary Studies at the University of that began as an exploration of the concepts Amsterdam. She is the author of and debates that run through his contribution 270 | The Contributors.

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