Microsoft Word - Contributors.docx Contributors Joseph Ball writes on issues concerning the economic structures and economic development of the former socialist countries. He is the author of the article “Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward?,” which appeared in the online zine of Monthly Review. He can be contacted at . Benjamin Balthaser is currently an assistant professor of multi-ethnic U.S. literature at Indiana University, South Bend. His current project examines radical modernist writers who displaced the cultural imaginary of Western Europe to consider Latin America and the Caribbean as sites of artistic and political inspiration, as well as revising national definitions of the U.S. to include north/south migration and labor flows. His critical and creative work has previously appeared in American Quarterly, Minnesota Review, Left Curve, Reconstruction and elsewhere. His collection of poems, Dedication, is also now available from Partisan Press. Kanishka Chowdhury is Associate Professor of English and Director of the American Culture and Difference program at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in cultural theory, postcolonial literature and theory, and globalization and culture. He is the author of The New India: Citizenship, Subjectivity, and Economic Liberalization (2011), as well as pieces in journals such as College Literature, Cultural Critique, Mediations, Modern Fiction Studies, Science & Society, and World Literature Today. Rich Daniels is an emeritus associate professor of English, Oregon State University, where he taught medieval literature, linguistics, and creative writing. He now works with the Frankfurt School thinkers, especially Theodor Adorno, with primary interests in aesthetic theory, political action, and authoritarian violence. He is a longtime active member of the Marxist Literary Group, and more recently of the Radical Philosophy Association. Dan DiMaggio is a graduate student in Sociology at NYU. He was formerly a member of Socialist Alternative and is now an independent socialist active in the Occupy Wall Street movement. His articles have appeared in Monthly Review, Dollars & Sense, Truthout, and Alternet. He welcomes e-mails at . Kim Emery is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida and a member of the United Faculty of Florida. She has served on the bargaining team and as chapter president for UFF-UF, an AFT-NEA affiliate, and is currently a member of the AAUP National Council. Author of The Lesbian Index: Pragmatism and Lesbian Subjectivity in the 20th-Century United States (SUNY 2002), she is now working on a book about queer theory and the corporate university Jamey Essex is associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Windsor. His research concentrates on three broad areas: the political and economic geographies of globalization, focusing on changes in governance and the state; the geopolitics and geoeconomics of development, focusing on shifts in development and aid strategies; and the restructuring of agriculture and food systems at multiple scales, focusing on food security and hunger. Kevin Floyd is associate professor of English at Kent State University, where he teaches courses on Marxism, queer studies, and twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture. He is the author of The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism (Minnesota 2009). Articles forthcoming include “How to Subsume Difference, or World Reduction in Delany,” in Mathias Nilges and Emilio Sauri, eds., Literary Materialisms; and “Masculinity Inside Out: The Biopolitical Lessons of Transgender and Intersex Studies,” in Stefan Horlacher, ed., Constructions of Masculinity. Barbara Foley teaches English and American Studies at Rutgers University, Newark Campus. Her most recent book is Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (Duke University Press, 2010). She serves on the steering committee of the Radical Caucus of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the manuscript committee of Science & Society. Grover Furr () researches the Stalin period of Soviet history. He recently published () Khrushchev Lied. The Evidence That Every “Revelation” of Stalin’s (and Beria’s) Crimes in Nikita Khrushchev’s Infamous “Secret Speech” to the 20th Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on February 25, 1956, is Provably False (Erythros Press & Media LLC, 2011), an updated version of his study of Nikita Khrushchev’s “Secret Speech” of 1956. Using documents from the former Soviet archives he shows that all Khrushchev’s “revelations” about Stalin were false. He has also published numerous other articles on Soviet history and anticommunist falsehoods (links on his web page). He is in the English Department at Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ, where he teaches courses on medieval literature, the Vietnam war, the literature of social protest, world literature, British literature beginnings to 1660, and history of journalism. Max Haiven is a post-doctoral fellow in the department of Art and Public Policy at New York University and teaches at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. His writing on finance and the imagination is forthcoming in Social Text, Cultural Studies and Polygraph. His work on the radical imagination has been published in Affinities and The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies and is forthcoming in Cultural Critique. For more information, please visit . Mary Kennan Herbert teaches literature and writing courses at Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY. Her poems have appeared in many scholarly and professional journals around the world, and in several anthologies. She is originally from St. Louis, Missouri. Andrey Maidansky is professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Economics and Management in Taganrog (Russia). He has published several studies on Spinoza, Marxism and philosophy of science and contributes regulary to the main Russian philosophical journal Voprosy Filosofii. Carl Grey Martin is an assistant professor of English at Norwich University (VT), where he teaches medieval British as well as world literatures, and he earned his doctorate at Tufts University. His scholarship, largely focusing on violence and ideology in chivalric romance, has been published in the Chaucer Review and Modern Philology. His next project will examine the intersection of food, class, and labor in Malory’s Morte d’Arthur, but he would also like to devote some time to Brecht’s work and milieu. Greg Meyerson is currently completing a book with Michael Roberto, “It Could Happen Here: Fascism and the Decline of Pax Americana,” for Pluto Press. Recent publications include “Post Marxism as Compromise Formation,” in Cultural Logic, 2009, with introduction by E. San Juan Jr.; “Aunt Sue’s Mistake: False Consciousness in ‘Bright and Morning Star,’” in Reconstruction; “Obama and the Irreversible Crisis,” with Michael Roberto, in Socialism and Democracy; “Hookwormridden Heirs or Good Stock: Confronting Social Crisis in Light in August,” written with Jim Neilson. Marcello Musto teaches at the Department of Political Science of York University (Toronto, Canada). He has carried out research on the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe, and is the editor and a contributing author of Sulle tracce di un fantasma. L'opera di Karl Marx tra filologia e filosofia (Manifestolibri, 2005); Karl Marx’s Grundrisse. Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 150 Years Later (Routledge, 2008); Karl Marx, L’alienazione (Donzelli, 2010); Karl Marx, Introduzione alla critica dell’economia politica (Quodlibet, 2010); and Marx for Today (special issue of the journal Socialism and Democracy (vol. 24.3), Routledge, 2010. Jeffrey Noonan is professor and head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Windsor. He is the author of Critical Humanism and the Politics of Difference (2003), Democratic Society and Human Needs (2006), and Materialist Ethics and Life-Value (2012, forthcoming). Vesa Oittinen is professor at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki (Finland), and is the author of many books. Among these are: Spinozistische Dialektik (Peter Lang, 1994); Der Akt als Fundament des Bewusstseins? (Peter Lang, 1996); Marx ja Venäjä (ed., Aleksanteri Papers, 2006); and Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) ja Marxin uudelleen löytäminen (ed. with Juha Koivisto, Vastapaino, 2010). Jeffrey B. Perry () is an independent working-class scholar formally educated at Princeton, Harvard, Rutgers, and Columbia. For over thirty-seven years he has been active in the working-class movement as a postal mail handler, steward, officer, editor, and retiree. He has also been involved in domestic and international social justice issues including affirmative action, union democracy, and anti-apartheid, anti-war, and anti-imperialist work. Dr. Perry has preserved and inventoried the Hubert H. Harrison Papers and the Theodore W. Allen Papers, edited and written introductions for A Hubert Harrison Reader (Wesleyan University Press, 2001) and Theodore W. Allen, Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race (1975; Center for the Study of Working Class Life, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2006), and authored Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (Columbia University Press, 2008). Amedeo Policante is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate Programme in Politics at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has previously published essays and articles on Marx, Foucault and Roland Barthes. He is currently working on a project concerned with imperial sovereignty and the biopolitics of free trade, and how they respectively fold upon the spectral figures of the pirate. He can be reached at . Joseph G. Ramsey is a writer, critic, educator, and activist, residing in the Boston area. He is an editor of Cultural Logic, and the lead editor of this special issue on Culture and Crisis. Michael Joseph Roberto is associate professor of History at North Carolina Agricultural and Technological State University in Greensboro, North Carolina. He is currently working with Gregory Meyerson on a book manuscript for Pluto Press entitled “It Could Happen Here: Fascism and the Crisis of Pax Americana.” His most recent publication is “Crisis, Revolution and the Meaning of Progress: The Poverty of Philosophy and Its Contemporary Relevance” (Cultural Logic, 2009). He is also engaged in political issues and struggles in Greensboro. Tristan Sipley, who teaches at the University of Oregon, focuses on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fiction, critical theory, and ecocriticism. His dissertation, entitled “Second Nature: Literature, Capital and the Built Environment, 1848-1938,” explores fictional representations of industrial and urban spaces and their relationship to progressive health reforms and labor activism. He has published in the journal Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, as well as in the Encyclopedia of American Environmental Literature. George Snedeker teaches in the Sociology Department at the SUNY/College at Old Westbury. He has published scholarly articles in the areas of sociology and literary criticism as well as short stories and poems. His book, The Politics of Critical Theory, was published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2004.He serves on the editorial board of Socialism and Democracy, and is their Book Review Editor ()
 Heather Steffen writes about contemporary academic labor issues, and has published on graduate student work and undergraduate internship labor in the minnesota review, Academe, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Something to Declare, a collection of critical “credos” that she co-edited with Jeffrey J. Williams, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press in fall 2012. Her teaching focuses on late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century American literature, with emphases on naturalism, popular fiction, and cultural theory, as well as the history of the university. Robert T. Tally Jr. teaches American and world literature at Texas State University. He is the author of Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel: A Postmodern Iconography, Melville, Mapping and Globalization: Literary Cartography in the American Baroque Writer, and the forthcoming Spatiality: The New Critical Idiom. He is also the translator of Bertrand Westphal’s Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces, and the editor of Geocritical Explorations: Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies. Julie Torrant’s writings have appeared in such journals as Textual Practice, Nature, Society, and Thought, and The Red Critique. Her book, The Material Family, will be published this year. Her new project is a book on the biopolitics of the family. She is an assistant professor of English at the City University of New York, Kingsborough. Christopher Vials is an assistant professor of English at the University of Connecticut-Storrs, where he also served as the acting Director of American Studies. Most of his work thus far has focused on the political left and its impact on US culture in the twentieth century. His first book was entitled Realism for the Masses: Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and US Culture: 1935-1947 (Mississippi, 2009). His article here is part of a forthcoming book on the history and legacy of antifascism in US culture.