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Ben Highmore
Ben Highmore is Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of
Sussex. His research is broadly concerned with the culture of everyday life:
investigating what is extraordinary in ordinary life (for instance habit) and in
looking at the ordinariness of what might be thought of as extra-ordinary or
exotic or esoteric or elite. His particular interests at the moment congregate
around cultural feelings, domestic life, and post-war British art, craft and
architecture (specifically the cultural movement New Brutalism). His most
recent books are A Passion for Cultural Studies (2009), the edited collection The
Design Culture Reader (2009) and Ordinary Lives: Studies in the Everyday (2011).
His previous books have been on everyday life theory; the cultural theorist
Michel de Certeau; and the city.
Gabriele Schwab
Gabriele Schwab is Chancellor’s Professor of English and Comparative
Literature at the University of California at Irvine. She is also a Faculty
Associate in the Department of Anthropology and a member and former
Director of the Critical Theory Institute. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim
Fellowship and a Heisenberg Fellowship, and was an International Research
Fellow in Residence at the Australian National University and the Free
University of Berlin. Since 2001 she is affiliated as a research psychoanalyst
with the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute where she received
an additional Ph.D. in Psychoanalysis in 2009. Her books in English include
Subjects without Selves (Harvard UP, 1994), The Mirror-and the Killer-Queen
(Indiana UP, 1997), Haunting Legacies: Violent Histories and Transgenerational
Trauma (Columbia UP, 2010) and Imaginary Ethnographies (forthcoming from Columbia UP). Edited collections
include Accelerating Possessions: Global Futures of Property and Personhood, co-edited with William Maurer,
(Columbia UP, 2006); Derrida, Deleuze, Psychoanalysis (Columbia UP, 2007); and a Special Issue of Postcolonial
Studies titled The Cultural Unconscious and the Postcolonizing Process (co-edited with John Cash). Her work
has been translated into Bulgarian, French, Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish.
Works in progress include a co-edited volume titled The Postcolonial Unconscious and a collaborative book
with Native American writer Simon J. Ortiz titled Children of Fire, Children of Water.
Jaan Undusk
Jaan Undusk is the Director of Under and Tuglas Literature Centre of the
Estonian Academy of Sciences and a member of the Estonian Academy of
Sciences. His sphere of interest covers Baltic-German literary culture, Estonian
literature, philosophy of history and language. He has published an awardwinning
monograph Maagiline müstiline keel“ (Magic Mystic Language,
1998) and edited numerous collections of articles. He has published a novel
„Kuum“ (Hot, 1990) and plays Goodbye, Vienna! (1999), Quevedo (2003); and
Boulgakoff (2005).
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