Contributors' Notes Contributors' Notes Theodore W. Allen is an independent scholar living in New York and the author of The Invention of the White Race, 2 Volumes (Verso). Jamie Owen Daniel teaches in the English Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has been president of the Marxist Literary Group since 1997 and is an Executive Board member of Chicago Jobs with Justice. She is the co-translator of Negt and Kluge's Public Sphere and Experience, and has written extensively on public and counter-public sphere theory, public housing and the re-bourgeoisification of urban space, academic organizing and labor movement, and on class and subjectivity. Teresa L. Ebert has written Ludic Feminism and After: Postmodernism, Desire and Labor in Late Capitalism (University of Michigan Press) and Culture and Its Other: Sexuality, Class and the Flaneur (forthcoming). Her cybertext, "Quango-ing the University: The Ends of Critique-al Humanities" is in Cultural Logic 1.1. John Bellamy Foster teaches sociology at the University of Oregon and is the author of many works, including, most recently, Marx's Ecology. Anthony Jarells is a graduate student at the State University of New York-Stony Brook and is finishing his dissertation on violence and literature in eighteenth-century British literature. Richard E. Joines is completing his dissertation, "For Those with Ears to Hear: Emerson, Rhetoric, and Political Philosophy," at the University of Florida where he teaches composition, American literature, and creative writing. His essay "Emerson's Proleptic Eloquence" appeared in Nineteenth-Century Prose (Fall 2000), and his review of Geoff Waite's Nietzsche's Corps/e will appear in Rethinking Marxism. He also writes about Philip K. Dick, Don DeLillo, and American and British poetry. Chris Lamb, Ph.D., who teaches Media Studies at the College of Charleston, in Charleston, SC., is writing a book on baseball's first integrated spring training. Neil Larsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Classics at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Modernism and Hegemony (1990), Reading North by South (1995) and Nations, Narratives, History: Problems of Theory and the "Postcolonial" (forthcoming). nalarsen@green.ucdavis.edu Tom Lewis teaches Spanish literature and culture at the University of Iowa. He has written widely on marxism and on topics in the philosophy of language and literary criticism. William O'Meara is Professor of Philosophy at James Madison University. He has also published on Marx: "Mead and Marx on the Social Nature of Rationality and Freedom," Frontiers in American Philosophy, Vol. I, ed. Burch and Saatkamp (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1992) pp. 253-263, and "The Social Nature of Self and Morality for Husserl, Schutz, Marx, and Mead," Philosophy Research Archives, 1987, pp. 329-355. Kelly Rusinack wrote her master's thesis at Clemson University on the Daily Worker's campaign to integrate baseball. She lives in Baltimore. Michael Sprinker taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook until his death in 1999. He was the author of Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Theory of Historical Materialism and History and Ideology in Proust, among many other works. Alan Wald, who teaches at the University of Michigan, is an editor of Against the Grain and the author of many essays and books about the American Left. mailto:nalarsen@green.ucdavis.edu http://lilt.ilstu.edu/smexpos/cinergia/Cinergia.htm http://lilt.ilstu.edu/smexpos/cinergia/Cinergia.htm mailto:smexpos@ilstu.edu mailto:cmooers@ryerson.ca