David C. Lloyd (Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Riverside)
David C. Lloyd has worked primarily on Irish culture and on postcolonial and cultural theory. He is the author of Nationalism and Minor Literature (1987); Anomalous States (1993); Ireland After History (1999) and his most recent books in that field are Irish Times: Temporalities of Irish Modernity (2008) and Irish Culture and Colonial Modernity: The Transformation of Oral Space (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Having recently completed a book on Samuel Beckett and the visual arts, to be published in 2014 by Field Day in Dublin, he is now turning back to focusing on poetry and beginning a book on poetry and violence that will include essays on W.B. Yeats, César Vallejo, Aimé Césaire and Paul Celan. He has co-published several other books, including The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse (1991), with Abdul JanMohamed;Culture and the State, co-authored with Paul Thomas (1997); The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (1997), with Lisa Lowe; and The Black and Green Atlantic: Cross-Currents of the African and Irish Diasporas (2008), edited with Peter D. O’Neill. He is also a poet and playwright: his Arc & Sill: Poems 1979-2009 was published by Shearsman Books in the UK and New Writers’ Press, Dublin, 2012, and his play, The Press, has had staged readings in Dublin, Los Angeles, Liverpool, and Manila, and premiered at Liverpool Hope University in 2010.
Alberto Moreiras (Professor of Hispanic Studies, Texas A&M University)
Alberto Moreiras is professor of Hispanic studies at Texas A&M University, where he has had an appointment since 2010. Moreiras’s work focuses on contemporary political thought, Latin American cultural history, and subaltern studies. He has published over 110 essays, and his books include Interpretación y diferencia (1992); Tercer espacio: Literatura y duelo en América Latina (1999), The Exhaustion of Difference: The Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies (2001); Pensar en la postdictadura (2001), coedited with Nelly Richard; and Línea de sombra: El no sujeto de lo político (2007). He has also published about ten edited monographic collections of essays in journals or multivolume works and is currently preparing two more, one of them on the work of Álvaro García Linera. Moreiras has been involved over the years in the creation of three journals, namely Nepantla: Views from South, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, and Política común. He is coeditor of the last two. He is also coeditor of Res publica: Revista de pensamiento político, and coeditor of a new University of Texas Press book series entitled “Border Hispanisms.” He created and runs the Facebook group Crítica y Teoría, which has over six hundred members, and is a founder of the Texas Research Group on Luso-Hispanic, Caribbean, and Latino/a Thought. He is or has been a member of the editorial boards of an additional 20 publishing ventures, from Diacritics and Cultural Studies to Traces and Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. He is a frequent reader of manuscripts for five major US academic presses and routinely reads essays for a dozen journals beyond the ones already mentioned.
David C. Lloyd has worked primarily on Irish culture and on postcolonial and cultural theory. He is the author of Nationalism and Minor Literature (1987); Anomalous States (1993); Ireland After History (1999) and his most recent books in that field are Irish Times: Temporalities of Irish Modernity (2008) and Irish Culture and Colonial Modernity: The Transformation of Oral Space (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Having recently completed a book on Samuel Beckett and the visual arts, to be published in 2014 by Field Day in Dublin, he is now turning back to focusing on poetry and beginning a book on poetry and violence that will include essays on W.B. Yeats, César Vallejo, Aimé Césaire and Paul Celan. He has co-published several other books, including The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse (1991), with Abdul JanMohamed;Culture and the State, co-authored with Paul Thomas (1997); The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (1997), with Lisa Lowe; and The Black and Green Atlantic: Cross-Currents of the African and Irish Diasporas (2008), edited with Peter D. O’Neill. He is also a poet and playwright: his Arc & Sill: Poems 1979-2009 was published by Shearsman Books in the UK and New Writers’ Press, Dublin, 2012, and his play, The Press, has had staged readings in Dublin, Los Angeles, Liverpool, and Manila, and premiered at Liverpool Hope University in 2010.
Alberto Moreiras (Professor of Hispanic Studies, Texas A&M University)
Alberto Moreiras is professor of Hispanic studies at Texas A&M University, where he has had an appointment since 2010. Moreiras’s work focuses on contemporary political thought, Latin American cultural history, and subaltern studies. He has published over 110 essays, and his books include Interpretación y diferencia (1992); Tercer espacio: Literatura y duelo en América Latina (1999), The Exhaustion of Difference: The Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies (2001); Pensar en la postdictadura (2001), coedited with Nelly Richard; and Línea de sombra: El no sujeto de lo político (2007). He has also published about ten edited monographic collections of essays in journals or multivolume works and is currently preparing two more, one of them on the work of Álvaro García Linera. Moreiras has been involved over the years in the creation of three journals, namely Nepantla: Views from South, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, and Política común. He is coeditor of the last two. He is also coeditor of Res publica: Revista de pensamiento político, and coeditor of a new University of Texas Press book series entitled “Border Hispanisms.” He created and runs the Facebook group Crítica y Teoría, which has over six hundred members, and is a founder of the Texas Research Group on Luso-Hispanic, Caribbean, and Latino/a Thought. He is or has been a member of the editorial boards of an additional 20 publishing ventures, from Diacritics and Cultural Studies to Traces and Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. He is a frequent reader of manuscripts for five major US academic presses and routinely reads essays for a dozen journals beyond the ones already mentioned.
