Chris Anderson-Irwin is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University. His research interests include the relationship between metaphysics and politics, religion and (post)modern philosophy, German idealism and twentieth century Jewish thought. His article, "Beyond Economy, or the Infinite Debt to the Other: Caputo and Derrida on Obligation and Responsibility ," appears in Vol. I., no. 3.
Email Chris Anderson-Irwin

Caitlin Fisher is a member of the j_spot collective. She recently completed her PhD in Social and Political Thought at York University in the area of feminist hypertextual theory and practice and is currently an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Cultural Studies at York University. She recently won the Electronic Literature Organization's 2001 prize for fiction for her hypermedia novella entitled These Waves of Girls.
Find her at: http://www.yorku.ca/caitlin
Email Caitlin Fisher

Margaret Gibson lectures in sociology in the areas of gender studies and family studies at the University of New England, Australia. She received her PhD (1999) at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She has published on the blood/representational politics of menstruation product advertisements, and on polygraph machines as technologies of truth. She is currently working on a book in the area of death studies. Her article, "Guiltless Credit and the Moral Economy of Salvation ," appears in Vol. I, no. 3.
Email Margaret M. Gibson

John S. Howard is a Dean's Scholar in the School of Law at Saint Louis University.  He holds a Master of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. from Saint Louis University.  Recent publications include Subjectivity and Space: Deleuze and Guattari's BwO in the New World Order, in Kevin Jon Heller and Eleanor Kaufman, eds., Deleuze and Guattari: New Mappings in Politics, Philosophy, and Culture. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998), and "Theory Against Itself: New Historicism's Return to Practice" in Jeffrey Williams, ed., PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy, (New York: Routledge, 1995).  He is a regular contributor to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and has written a number of essays and articles on Romantic theory and poetry, including a book-length study entitled Romantic Dialectics and the Politics of the Subject, currently under consideration for publication.  The focus of his scholarly work has recently shifted from literary theory to legal theory.  In the summer of 2000 he will join the firm of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal as a commercial litigator. His article, "Left Out: Politics and Postmodern Hermeneutics," appears in Vol. I., no. 2.
Email John S. Howard

Anh Hua is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Programme of History. His areas of research include cultural production, race, the body and imperialism. His article, "Primitive Spectacle in Black Narcissus," appears in Vol. I, no. 2.
Email Anh Hua

Chris McCutcheon was a graduate student in the Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought and a candidate for the Graduate Diploma in German & European Studies at York University.  His work geminerally broached the tensions between politics and ethics and their banes: representation, aesthetics, poetics, mimesis.  He was working on questions of subjectivity and violence in the work of Levinas and Freud. His article, "Adorno and the Muse of the Dialectic (a fable) ," appeared in Vol. I, no. 2. He was one of the founding editors of j_spot: the Journal of Social and Political Thought.
Email Chris McCutcheon

Wendy K. Olsen, is a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Development Economics and Lecturer in Quantitative Development Economics, Development and Planning Project Centre, with a secondment to Graduate School as a Lecturer in Research Methods, at the University of Bradford, England. She holds a D.Phil. from Oxford. She has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Manchester and has taught at the University of Lancaster. Her publications include The Limits to Conditionality: Grassroots Evidence from Rural India, Oxford University Press, 2000, and Rural Indian Social Relations, Oxford University Press, 1996. She is currently preparing a book called Statistics for Skeptics. Her article, "Contract Labour and Bondage in Andhra Pradesh, India," co-authored with R.V. RamanaMurthy (see below), appears in Vol. I. no. 2. Her WebPages are at www.brad.ac.uk/staff/wkolsen
Email Wendy K.Olsen

Michael K. Palamarek is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought and in the Graduate Diploma in German and European Studies Programme, both at York University, Toronto, Canada. His work focuses on the interconnections between language and labour in contemporary critical social thought, especially that of the early and later Frankfurt School. He is currently preparing a project comparing the relation between language and labour in the work of Theodor Adorno and Mikhail Bakhtin, and is one of the founding editors of j_spot: the Journal of Social and Political Thought. For further information, please consult http://www.student.yorku.ca/~mikashy/index.htm.
Email Michael K. Palamarek

R.V. RamanaMurthy, Assistant Professor, NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, India. His article, "Contract Labour and Bondage in Andhra Pradesh, India," co-authored with Wendy K. Olsen (see above), appears in Vol. I. no. 2.
Email Dr. R.V. RamanaMurthy

Jasmine Rault is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought at York University. She completed the Master's programme in Women's Studies at York last year. Her article, " Grotesque Performativity: Orlan and The Limits of Materialization," appears in Vol. I, no. 2.
Email Jasmine Rault

M. Michael Schiff, along with Caitlin Fisher, founded the graduate programme website, SPoT, in late 1997, from which j_spot the Journal of Social and Political Thought devolved, as they conceived it in Spring 1999, and he was a grand panjandrum in the production and deliverance of the first 3 issues. He is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought at York University, with research interests in the areas and intersections of feminist theory, nations, sex and gender studies, invariably involving the work of Julia Kristeva and Mikhail Bakhtin. Publications include work on intersexuality, and proceedings from several conferences. See also www.mMichael.com. His introduction to j_spot Vol. I, no. 2, is " 'Weblish' or Perish, or, 'I Touch Myself': Reflections on j_spot the Journal of Social and Political Thought." M. is employed full-time by the Faculty of Graduate Studies at York University, where he is administrative support to the Faculty of Graduate Studies' Council and its standing committees, produces the Faculty's Calendar and web entreés...
Email M. Michael Schiff

Jon Short is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Programme in Social & Political Thought, York University.  He holds a B.A. and M.A. in
Political Science from the University of Western Ontario.  His dissertation research seeks to apply revisions of the ontological tradition in the work of Adorno, Levinas, and Deleuze to contemporary ecological, ethical, and political thought  His article, "Outside of Power? or The Power of the Outside ," is published in Vol. I, no. 2.
Email Jon Short

Kathryn Walker is a member of the j_spot collective and a doctoral candidate in Social and Political Thought, York University.
Email Kathryn Walker

Joanna Zylinska is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Bath Spa University College, United Kingdom. She is the author of On Spiders, Cyborgs and Being Scared: the Feminine and the Sublime (Manchester University Press) and editor of a collection of essays on the work of performance artists Stelarc and Orlan, The Cyborg Experiments: the Extensions of the Body in the Media Age (Athlone/Continuum), both forthcoming in 2001. Her work on feminist ethics, women's fiction, cultural studies and new technologies has appeared in numerous journals, including Women: A Cultural Review, parallax and Anglica Wratislaviensia. She is book reviews editor for Culture Machine, an international peer-reviewed journal in cultural studies and cultural theory . Her article, "Sublime Speculations: The Economy of the Gift in Feminist Ethics ," appears in Vol. I, no. 3.
Email Joanna Zylinska