PROFILES OF CONTRIBUTORS
University of Southern California	Peggy Kamuf	'The University in the World it is Attempting to Think' - Peggy Kamuf is Professor of French and comparative Literature at the University of Southern California, USA. Her publications include Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988), and The Division of Literature: or the University in Deconstruction (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997).
Trinity and All Saints, College of the University of Leeds	Stefan Herbrechter	'Plus d’un: Deconstruction and the Translation of Cultural Studies' - Stefan Herbrechter is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Analysis at Trinity and All Saints, College of the University of Leeds, England. His publications to date include Lawrence Durrell, Postmodernism and the Ethics of Alterity, Postmodern Studies 26 (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 1999) and Cultural Studies: Interdisciplinarity and Translation, Critical Studies (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2002). He is currently working, together with Ivan Callus  (University of Malta), on aspects of interdisciplinarity, post-theory and posthumanism.
Middlesex University	Gary Hall	'Why You Can't Do Cultural Studies and be a Derridean' - Gary Hall  is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Middlesex University, England. He is the author of Culture in Bits (London and New York: Continuum, 2002), general commissioning co-editor of Continuum's Technologies book series and editor of Berg's new Culture Machine book series. His work has appeared in numerous journals including Angelaki, Mediactive, Parallax, The South Atlantic Quarterly and The Oxford Literary Review. He is currently writing a book on cultural studies in the age of digital reproduction.
University of Surrey,  Roehampton	Paul Bowman	'The Task of the Transgressor' - Paul Bowman is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Surrey Roehampton, England. He is the editor of Interrogating Cultural Studies: Theory, Politics and Practice (London: Pluto Press, 2003), and author of the forthcoming Post-Marxism Versus Cultural Studies (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press).
Goldsmiths College, University of London	Joanna Zylinska	'Guns N'Rappers: 'Moral Panics' and the Ethics of Cultural Studies ' - Joanna Zylinska is Lecturer in New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London, England. She is the author of On Spiders, Cyborgs and Being Scared: the Feminine and the Sublime (Manchester University Press, 2001) and editor of a collection of essays on the work of performance artists Orlan and Stelarc, The Cyborg Experiments: the Extensions of the Body in the Media Age (Continuum, 2002). Her work has appeared in a number of journals, including Women: A Cultural Review, Critical Survey and Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture and Politics. She is currently writing a book entitled The Ethics of Cultural Studies for Continuum.
University of East London	Jeremy Gilbert	Signifying Nothing: 'Culture', 'Discourse' and the Sociality of Affect - Jeremy Gilbert is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of East London, England. He is co-author (with Ewan Pearson) of Discographies: Dance Music, Politics and the Culture of Sound (London: Routledge, 1999) and co-editor (with Timothy Bewes) of Cultural Capitalism: Politics After New Labour (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 2000).
Princeton University	Mark Hansen	'Realtime Synthesis' and the Différance of the Body: Technocultural Studies in the Wake of Deconstruction - Mark Hansen teaches cultural theory and media studies at Princeton University, USA. He is author of Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing (Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2000) and New Philosophy For New Media (Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2004).
New York University	Paul Grimstad	'The Idea of The Future (of Deconstruction)' - Paul Grimstad is a PhD candidate in English at New York University, USA. He is currently preparing a doctoral dissertation on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Peirce and the literary origins of machine cognition. His writing has appeared in the NYU Comparative Literature graduate student journal Ampersand (of which he is a co-editor), and in The Brooklyn Rail.
Duke University	Brian Carr	'Universalism’s Irrational Outburst' - Brian Carr is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Literature at Duke University, USA.  He is currently completing his dissertation, entitled 'Racialism’s Reason: Sexuality, Race, Interpretation', which theorizes the relation of sexuality to the logic of racialism under and in the wake of US slavery.  His work has appeared in Cultural Critique, GLQ, Angelaki, Modern Fiction Studies, and Camera Obscura.  His article, 'Paranoid Interpretation, Desire’s Nonobject, and Nella Larsen’s Passing', is forthcoming in PMLA.
Middlesex University	Clare Birchall	'Just Because You're Paranoid, Doesn't Mean They're Not Out to Get You' - Clare Birchall is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Middlesex University, England. She has published widely in journals including Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, Mediactive and New Formations, and in edited collections such as Peter Knight’s Conspiracy Nation (NYU, 2002). She is currently writing a book for Berg called Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Celebrity Gossip.
University of Kent	Dave Boothroyd	'Deconstruction and Everyday Life, or How Deconstruction Helped Me Quit Smoking' - Dave Boothroyd is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Kent, England. His work has appeared in a number of edited collections, including The Provocation of Lévinas, eds. Robert Bernasconi and David Wood (London: Routledge, 1988), The Politics of Sexuality, eds. Carver and Mottier (London: Routledge, 1998), Deconstructions: An Anthology, ed. Nicholas Royle (London: MacMillan, forthcoming) and ‘Nihilism Now’: Monsters of Energy, eds. Keith Ansell-Pearson & Diane Morgan (London: MacMillan,  forthcoming), as well as in several journals including Philosophy Today, Man And World and Parallax. He is currently writing a book entitled Culture on Drugs: Narco-cultural Studies of  High Modernity for Manchester University Press.