Microsoft Word - Contributors.doc Contributors Delia D. Aguilar is the author of several landmark books which assess and theorize the women’s movement in the Philippines such as The Feminist Challenge: Initial Working Principles Toward Reconceptualizing the Feminist Movement in the Philippines (1989). In 2004, she co-edited with Anne Lacsamana Women and Globalization, an anthology with “a global feminist perspective that views women as both laboring and desiring subjects.” Aguilar's dialogue piece with her daughter Karin Aguilar-San Juan titled “Feminism Across Our Generations” (2005) is now required reading in Asian American and Philippine Studies courses. Christopher Barnes can be heard reading his poem “The Holiday I Never Had” at – recorded by The South Bank Centre in London. He has also written poetry reviews for Poetry Scotland and Jacket Magazine. Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at Bryant University (Smithfield, Rhode Island). Prior to this position, he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Kalamazoo College (Michigan). His teaching and research interests are in the fields of U.S. Ethnic Studies (Asian American and African American literatures), Cultural Studies (culture and social movements), and Women’s Studies. He received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan, an M.A. in Asian American Studies from UCLA, and a B.A. in English and Cross-Cultural Ethnic Studies from Oberlin College. Alzo David-West is an instructor at Duksung Women’s University in Seoul, South Korea, the newsbriefs editor for North Korean Review, and a Ph.D. candidate in communication at the European Graduate School in Leuk-Stadt, Switzerland. He holds an English M.A. degree from East Carolina University and an English B.A. degree (magna cum laude) from Chowan University. His areas of academic interest include multicultural and transnational literature, literary theory and criticism, and North Korean studies. 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 (forthcoming from 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 Antistalinskaia Podlost (Moscow: Algoritm, 2007), a 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 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. Bülent Gökay is a Professor of International Relations in Keele University and the Chair of Editorial Committee of Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. Paul M. Heideman is a Ph D. candidate in American Studies at RutgersUniversity - Newark. His work focuses on the relationship of international radicalism and Black cultural production. His dissertation,tentatively entitled “Banquo's Ghost: The New Negro and the RussianRevolution,” examines the different ways in which early Black radicals thought about the Russian Revolution, and how their interpretations affected their own ideologies and programs. Dave Hill is Visiting Professor of Critical Education Policy and Equality Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland, and was previously Professor of Education Policy at the University of Northampton, England. He is Chief Editor, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, at and heads the independent (e-) Institute for Education Policy Studies, at , which archives some of his work. He is Routledge Series Editor for the Education and Neoliberalism series. He has published 17 books and over a hundred chapters and academic articles, as well as activist and polemical short pieces. He is a Socialist political activist, formerly a Labour Parliamentary candidate, Labour Council Group Leader, elected trade union regional leader in England and long-time trade union branch chair/shop steward. He fights European and Parliamentary elections as candidate for Socialist/Trade Unionist coalitions/formations. He is Program Chair of the AERA SIG on Marxism and Education. Dave lectures worldwide on Marxism and Education and on Radical/Socialist education. Gregory Meyerson is working on a book with Michael Roberto called It Could Happen Here: Fascism and the Decline of Pax Americana, Pluto Press. He is also assembling a collection of essays for a book called The Difference Class Makes. He is an Associate Professor at North Carolina A & T University and on the editorial board of Cultural Logic. Michael Joseph Roberto teaches world history and the history of socialism at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. He has co-authored (with Gregory Meyerson) three articles on the current U.S. crisis and the plausibility of an American- style fascism; their forthcoming book, It Could Happen Here: Fascism and the Crisis of Pax Americana, will be published by Pluto Press. Spyros Sakellaropoulos is Assistant Professor in the Social Policy Department of the Panteion University, specializing in the subject State and Political Theory. His research interests are centred on the theory of the State, the study of the Modern Greek and Cypriot societies and the theory of development of the capitalist mode of production. He has written numerous books and articles on his research interests in Greek, English, Spanish and French. E-mail: . E. San Juan, Jr. currently directs the Philippine Cultural Studies Center in Storrs, Connecticut. In the spring of 2009, San Juan was a fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at his alma mater, Harvard University. He has taught English, Comparative Literature, Ethnic Studies, American Studies and Cultural Studies at various institutions in the United States, Europe, the Philippines and Taiwan. San Juan chaired the Department of Comparative American Cultures in Washington State University, Pullman from 1998 to 2001. Between 2007 and 2009, San Juan published several books in the United States and the Philippines: In the Wake of Terror: Class, Race, Nation, Ethnicity in the Postmodern World; U.S. Imperialism and Revolution in the Philippines; Balikbayang Sinta: An E. San Juan Reader; and From Globalization to National Liberation: Essays of Three Decades. His latest book Toward Filipino Self-Determination: Beyond Transnational Globalization will be published by the State University of New York Press (Global Modernity series). David Schwartzman is a Professor, Department of Biology, Howard University, on that faculty since 1973. His research focus is on biogeochemistry, astrobiology, origin of life, environmental policy. Member International Committee, Green Party, U.S.; DC Metro Science for the People. Activist in the DC Statehood Green Party. Author: Life, Temperature, and the Earth. The Self-Organizing Biosphere; “Solar Communism” (Science & Society, 1996), “Ecosocialism or Ecocatastrophe?” (Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2009). Email: . Panagiotis Sotiris teaches political and social philosophy at the Department of Sociology, University of the Aegean, in Mytilene. His research interests include Marxist philosophy, the work of Louis Althusser, post-Marxist theorist, and the theory of imperialism. He is the author of Communism and Philosophy: The theoretical adventure of Louis Althusser (in Greek, 2004). E-mail: . Daniel F. Vukovich is Assistant Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. He teaches courses in postcolonial studies, theoretical discourse, American poetry, and critical China studies. He is also a steering committee member of the China Study Group. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in positions, Cultural Critique, Science and Society, and, in Chinese, in Marxism and Aesthetics (Nanjing), Culture and Social Transformation (Zhejiang), and P.R.C. Literature in International Perspectives, 1949– (Shanghai). His book China and Orientalism: Western Knowledge Production and the P.R.C. is forthcoming from Routledge Press in the Postcolonial Politics series. Dr. Darrell Whitman is a licensed attorney, community activist, and educator with a professional background for over 30 years in public interest law, environmental program management, and university-level research, and teaching, and is currently undertaking research in Environmental Politics in California.