PROFILES OF CONTRIBUTORS
University of Helsinki	Kuisma Korhonen	'Textual Communities: Nancy, Blanchot, Derrida' - Kuisma Korhonen is a docent of comparative literature at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and a fellow at the Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies. He is the author of Textual Friendship: The Essay as Impossible Encounter (Humanity Books, 2006) and numerous essays in English, French, and Finnish on literature and philosophy. He is also the editor of Tropes for the Past: Hayden White and the History / Literature Debate (Rodopi, 2006).
Arteveldehogeschool Ghent	Ignaas Devisch	'The Sense of Being(-)with Jean-Luc Nancy - Ignaas Devisch teaches philosophy, ethics and medical philosophy at the Arteveldehogeschool Ghent and at Ghent University, Belgium.  He is the author of Wij. Jean-Luc Nancy en het vraagstuk van de gemeenschap (Uitgeverij Peeters, Tertium Datur Reeks, 2003). His recent publications include ‘Being mondaine: Jean-Luc’s enumerations of the world’, Journal for Cultural Research; ‘Entre crochets.  La chose en chantier’, Symposium and ‘Democracy’s Content: Thinking Politics with Badiou and Schmitt’, Communication and Cognition.
University of Winnipeg	Marie-Eve Morin	'Putting Community under Erasure: Derrida and Nancy on the Plurality of Singularities' - Marie-Eve Morin is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Winnipeg in Canada. She obtained her Ph. D. from the University of Freiburg in Germany in 2005 and is currently working on a monograph in German on the concept of community in Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy for Ergon-Verlag.
University of King's College	Dorota Glowacka	'Community and the Work of Death: Thanato-ontology in Hannah Arendt and Jean-Luc Nancy' - Dorota Glowacka is an Associate Professor in the Contemporary Studies Programme at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Canada.  She teaches critical theory and Holocaust studies.  She is co-editor of Between Ethics and Aesthetics:  Crossing the Boundaries (SUNY, 2002) and Imaginary Neighbors:  Mediating Polish-Jewish Relations after the Holocaust (forthcoming from University of Nebraska Press). She has published articles on Polish, American, and French contemporary literature, and on Holocaust literature and art in relation to philosophical debates on ethics and aesthetics.
Michigan State University	Timothy J. Deines	'Bartleby the Scrivener, Immanence and the Resistance of Community' - Timothy J. Deines is a doctoral candidate in English at Michigan State University, US, specializing in nineteenth-century American literature and critical theory.  His dissertation is titled ‘Readings In/Finitude: On the Question of Community, Criticism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature.’
Melbourne	Angela Mitropoulos	'Cutting Democracy’s Knot' - Angela Mitropoulos is a writer living in Melbourne, Australia. She has written a number of essays on migration and labour, including, most recently, 'Autonomy, Migration, Recognition' in Constituent Imagination and 'Precari-us' in Mute Magazine.
University of Western Sydney	Brett Neilson	'Cutting Democracy’s Knot' - Brett Neilson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, where he is also a member of the Centre for Cultural Research. He is author of Free Trade in the Bermuda Triangle ... and Other Tales of Counterglobalization (University of Minnesota Press, 2004).
School of Advanced Study, University of London	Paulina Tambakaki	'Global Community, Global Citizenship?' - Paulina Tambakaki recently completed her PhD thesis entitled 'On the Future of Democratic Citizenship: The Citizenship-Human Rights Debate'. She currently works as a temporary lecturer at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK. Among her research interests are human rights, the agonistic conception of citizenship and multiculturalism.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas	Daniel H. Ortega	'"En Cada Barrio": Timocracy, Panopticism and the Landscape of a Normalized Community' - Daniel H.  Ortega is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, US.  His research interests lie in cultural identity as a critical component of the urban landscape.  His recent publications include: ‘The Las Vegas Strip as a Genuinely Invented Global Landscape’  (Landscape Review) and ‘Aqui Estamos y no nos Vamos’ (The Politics of Identity in the Urban Landscape of Los Angeles).
University of Nevada, Las Vegas	John Paul Ricco	'The Surreality of Community: Frédéric Brenner’s Diaspora: Homelands in Exile' - John Paul Ricco is Assistant Professor of Art History and Critical Theory at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the US. He is the author of The Logic of the Lure (University of Chicago, 2002), guest editor of Parallax 35, vol. 11, no. 2 on the theme of ‘unbecoming’, and Chair of the Editorial Board of Art Journal. His essay on the Jewish diaspora is part of his next book, Unbecoming Community, currently in progress.
Trent University	Jake Kennedy	'Gins, Arakawa and the Undying Community' - Jake Kennedy is an Assistant Professor in the Cultural Studies department at Trent University, Canada (limited appointment). His work has appeared in the Journal of Comparative Literature and Culture, Tout-Fait: the Marcel Duchamp Studies Journal, and Reconstruction. He is also a poet, and some of his creative writing can be found in McSweeney's, Descant, and Chain.
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston	Petra Kuppers	'Community Arts Practices: Improvising Being-Together' - Petra Kuppers is currently a Fellow at the Institute of Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, on leave from Bryant University, US. From September 2006, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has published extensively in performance studies and disability studies, and her books include Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge (Routledge, 2003), The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Arts (University of Minnesota Press, in press, 2007), and Community Performance: An Introduction (Routledge, forthcoming 2007), with a companion collection, Community Performance: A Reader, co-edited with Gwen Robertson. She is Artistic Director of The Olimpias Performance Research Projects (www.olimpias.net).
University of California, Santa Barbara	Natalie Cherot	'Transnational Adoptees: Global Biopolitical Orphans or an Activist Community?' - Natalie Cherot is a lecturer in the department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, US, and a PhD candidate in sociology at State University of New York - Binghamton. She is working on a book manuscript entitled The Vietnamese Adoptee Community, Mobilization, Narratives, and Identity.