Notes on Contributors

David Bennett is Director of Postgraduate Studies in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. He is the editor of Multicultural States: Rethinking Difference and Identity and is currently writing a study of the metaphoric intercourse between the languages of sex and money in modern theories of subjectivity, provisionally entitled “Desire as Capital.”

Mark Blackell is a Ph.D. candidate in Social and Political Thought at York University in Toronto, Canada. His dissertation examines the way in which select nineteenth-century liberal democratic thinkers view the democratic bond and portray the symptoms of modern democratic subjectivity.

Simon Clarke is a lecturer at the University of the West of England, where he teaches sociological theory and social psychology. His research interests include the interfaces between psychoanalysis and sociological thinking, psychoanalytic and sociological theory, and racism and social exclusion. He is an active member of the Psycho-Social Studies Research Group at the Centre for Social and Economic Research, which promotes the interdisciplinary use and discussion of psychoanalysis within the social sciences. He is currently writing a new textbook: Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Racism.

Tim Dean is Associate Professor of English and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Beyond Sexuality, and editor (with Christopher Lane) of Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis.

Rico Franses, currently living in New York, received his Ph.D. in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. His book, Symbols, Meaning, Belief: The Giver and The Gift in Byzantine Art, will be published shortly. He published an earlier article on the theme of memorials, “Post-Monumentality: Frame, Grid, Space, Quilt,” in The Rhetoric of the Frame, ed. Paul Duro .

Edward A. Gamarra, Jr. received a B.A. in psychology from Vassar College and an M.A. in Cinema Studies from NYU. Currently he