Contributors

Ryan Ku earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, with an Emphasis in Critical Theory, from the University of California, Irvine, and is the inaugural Postdoctoral Associate in Asian American Studies in the Department of English at Duke University. A theorist of Asian diaspora, Southeast Asian, and multiethnic American literatures after World War II, he intersects ethnic, postcolonial, and sexuality studies by tracing the contradictions of the U.S. as a nation to its traumatic history of imperialism in the Philippines, which has rendered the Filipino structurally queer. His comparative scholarly practice would not be possible without critical theory, including psychoanalysis.

Christine Maksimowicz is currently working on a book that moves between memoir, fiction, and theory to explore class-based injury in her own past and in the larger culture. Past publications include essays on Alice Munro in the Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies, and Elena Ferrante in The Works of Elena Ferrante: Reconfiguring the Margins . Christine is a book review editor for Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, and on the editorial board of the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. She has been an American Psychoanalytic Association Fellow and a fellow at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies. Past awards include the CORST Essay Prize in Psychoanalysis & Culture by the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute's Silberger Award. Christine presently divides her time between facilitating writing groups for clinicians and creative writers, one-on-one work with writers, and training as an analytic candidate at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies.

Jeffrey Meyers has had thirty-three books translated into fourteen languages and seven alphabets and published on six continents. His recent publications include: Remembering Iris