volume 1 : fall 2005 :: synaesthesia / contributors

James Leo Cahill is a doctoral student in Critical Studies at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on experimental and scientific cinema and critical theory. He has also studied at Occidental College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Visual Studies Program at the University of California, Irvine.

John Corso graduated from Williams College with honors in art. He holds masters degrees in art history and fine arts from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has presented papers at Cornell, McGill, the CAA, and Bryn Mawr College. His art has appeared in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Magazine, The Boston Globe, on WCVB-TV, Boston Channel 5, and on New England Cable Television. John Corso currently lives in Ithaca, NY, where he is a trustee of the Telluride Association and a PhD candidate in the History of Art at Cornell University.

Eva S. Hayward is a PhD candidate in History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and engaged in a dissertation entitled “Envisioning Invertebrates: Intimacy, Inhabitation, and Immersion as Encounter Tropes in MarineWorlds.” A science and visual studies scholar, Hayward recently joined the Department of Media Arts at the University of New Mexico. She has presented and published on a diverse range of subjects, including queer/trans theory and representation, science cinema, animal studies, and optics.

Kelly V. Kirshtner is a doctoral candidate in the Visual Studies Program at the University of California, Irvine. Her work focuses on sound, music, experimental and surrealist cinema, and intersections of film, science, and critical theory. She received a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Akira Mizuta Lippit is professor of cinema, literature, and Japanese culture at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife (2000) and Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) (2005). At present, he is preparing a manuscript on experimental film and video.

Fred Moten teaches in the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and is the author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003) and of two books of poetry, Arkansas (Pressed Wafer Press, 2000) and, with Jim Behrle, Poems (Pressed Wafer Press, 2002). He is currently completing a manuscript on philosophical, aesthetic and political criminality in black culture, also to be published by the University of Minnesota Press, called Stolen Life.

Rachel Leah Thompson is a doctoral candidate in the Program of Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on radical subjectivities and altered states in visual culture and critical theory. She holds a BA in Women’s Studies from the University of California, Davis.

Sandra Zalman is a Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California, where she studies twentieth-century European and American art. Her work focuses on the intersection of modernism and mass culture, specifically in the introduction of Surrealism to the United States and the critical art debates and mass cultural dialogue that the movment inspired over the course of several decades. Sandra received her Bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley and her Master’s degree from USC.