Contributors

Charles Bernstein is the author, most recently, of The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays and Comedies (2024), Topsy-Turvy (2021), and Pitch of Poetry (2016). His work was the subject of the 2021 boundary 2 issue “Charles Bernstein: The Poetry of Idiomatic Insistences,” edited by Paul Bové.Allen Chun is Research Fellow Emeritus in the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. From August 2019, he has been Chair Professor in the Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. His interests include cultural theory, nation-state formation, transnationalism, and identity. His research has focused mostly on Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. His most recent books are Forget Chineseness: On the Geopolitics of Cultural Identification (2017), On the Geopragmatics of Anthropological Identification (2019), and From Social Visibility to Political Invisibility: The School in Nationalist Taiwan as Fulcrum for an Evolving World Ethos (2023).Dr. Anissa Daoudi is an associate professor, linguist, and translation studies specialist at the University of Birmingham. She is the head of Arabic Section and a specialist for the translation studies program (Arabic-English-Arabic). Her current research is around the areas of translation, memory, and narrativity. Her project has been funded by the Leverhulme Trust on “Narrating and Translating Rape in Algeria in the Civil War of the 1990s” and she is the principal investigator for and editor of the Protectorate of Silence research project (https://protectorateofsilence.bham.ac.uk/). She is the editor of a blog on sexual violence at wartime. Prior to that, she was a research associate in applied linguistics/psycholinguistics at Durham University. Daoudi's research includes the impact of globalization on the Arabic language (both standard and vernacular Arabic). Her publications include a monograph entitled Cultural and Linguistic Encounters: Arab EFL Encoding and Decoding Idioms (2011); a themed special issue, “E-Arabic and Minority Voices in the MENA Region”; and articles and book chapters on the concept of e-Arabic. Her latest publications include an entry on the Algerian Civil War in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. On the theme of testimony, literature, and transitional justice, she has published “Testimonies and Literature as Alternative Transitional Justice in Algeria” in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. In literature and trauma, she published “Algerian Women and the Traumatic Decade: Literary Interventions” in the Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies.Arne De Boever teaches American studies in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts. He is the author of numerous articles, reviews, and translations, as well as several books on contemporary comparative fiction and political and aesthetic philosophy. His most recent books are Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism (2019), François Jullien's Unexceptional Thought (2020), and Being Vulnerable (2023). His book Post-Exceptionalism: Art After Political Theology is forthcoming.Jay Garcia is associate professor of comparative literature at New York University and the author of Psychology Comes to Harlem: Rethinking the Race Question in Twentieth-Century America (2012).