Notes on Contributors

Bruce A. Arrigo, PhD, is Professor of Criminology and Forensic Psychology and Director of the Institute of Psychology, Law, and Public Policy at the California School of Professional Psychology—Fresno Campus. He has published widely in the areas of critical criminology, psychoanalysis, the sociology of law, postmodernism, and justice studies. His books include Madness, Language, and Law (), The Contours of Psychiatric Justice (), Social Justice/Criminal Justice (), and with T.R. Young, The Dictionary of Critical Social Sciences (Westview, forthcoming ). Professor Arrigo is also the Editor of the peer reviewed quarterly, Humanity and Society and founding Editor of the periodical Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice.

Jeffrey Berman is Professor of English at the University at Albany. He is the author of Joseph Conrad: Writing as Rescue, The Talking Cure, Narcissism and the Novel, Diaries to an English Professor, and Surviving Literary Suicide.

Christopher Bush is a PhD candidate in UCLA's program in Comparative Literature. He is currently studying at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and writing a dissertation entitled “Ideographies: Reading and Difference in Modern Orientalisms.”

Paul Eisenstein is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Otterbein College. He has just completed a manuscript entitled Traumatic Encounters: Literature, the Holocaust, and the Human Subject.

John Lino Gasperoni, PhD, is the Director of Training at the Tenderloin Outpatient Clinic in San Francisco. He serves as the Treasurer of and Events Co-Ordinator for the San Francisco Society for Lacanian Studies and has given many papers and seminars through the Society. He maintains a private practice in San Francisco.

Laura Hengehold is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Loyola University of Chicago. She has presented and published papers exploring psychoanalytic and Foucauldian approaches to the political problem of rape, and is currently completing a di