/contributors/2007-08
Welcome to the brand new Contributors page
We present to you all of canon magazine's talented writers who contributed
to the Dec 07, March 08, and May 08 online issues.
Brittany is currently finishing up her MA in the Sociology of Media at the NSSR with hopes to continue on to a Ph.D. Her academic interests lie in the areas of mediated mimesis, alterity, and the changing subjectivity of the "spectator" in the modern mediascape. A military brat (mostly) from Texas, having lived in NYC for the past five years has greatly affected her views on the role of media in everyday life. Special thanks to Paolo Carpignano, and, as always, Mom and Dad. Featured Essay |
Conor Clarke is a second-year masters student in Anthropology. He was born and raised in the hills of northern Manhattan where he currently resides. His academic interests lie at the intersection of storytelling and ethnography in the contemporary United States city. In his studies, he would like to pursue an ethnography that explores the poetics, mimetics and affects of people and their places. He hopes to collect the stories of those affected by the process of urban revitalization that express their losses, reminiscences, hopes and intimacies. After this year he plans to begin work on a Ph.D in Anthropology at the New School or elsewhere. The Hum of the Fascist Carnivalesque (March 08)
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Jacob Doherty is an MA student in Anthropology - the hand wringingest of disciplines - interested in life and times in the post-colony. I'm not a racist, but ... (March 08)
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Suzanne Farrell is a second year Liberal Studies student and an editor of canon. She and editor Justin Wolf converted the magazine from a print publication to its current online format. Suzanne's master's thesis is a memory quest informed by psychology, neuroscience, literature, and memoirs. After graduating from the NSSR, Suzanne plans to attend the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She founded and hosts a salon for writers in the NYC area. Where Lies, The Meaning (May 08) "Fred" and Me and Fettuccini (March 08) View Points (Dec 07) |
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Carlos Figueroa is finishing his Ph.D in Political Science at the New School for Social Research. His scholarly interests range from U.S. political history, comparative religion, and legal theory to literary criticism, and the history of ideas. But he finds reading and writing fiction, humor and philosophical meditations his 'closet' passions. Enjoys experimenting with cooking, drinking wine, and continues to be a life-long Mets fan! Dedicates these meditations to his beautiful wife Lucía, who personifies what it means to love. Short Meditations (May 08)
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I-Yi Hsieh is finishing her first year in the MA program of Anthropology. While she should be concentrating on papers, she often ends up sketching people’s faces in the streets. Other times she goes to dances and performances, enjoys the circus and parodies happening in everyday life. Foucault Revised (Dec 07) |
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Brian Jefferson is a Ph.D student at the NSSR in the Department of Political Science. His main research interests are power-analytics, political violence, and Nietzscheanism. Monster in Your Forest (May 08) |
Tim is finishing up his first year as an MA student with the Committee on Liberal Studies at the NSSR. His main academic interests are in the areas of race, gender, sexuality, and class; critical social theory; feminism; pedagogy and cultural studies. Tim is originally from Vermont but has also lived in Massachusetts, Scotland, and Brooklyn. He currently lives in Manhattan. Tradition 'Against' Revolt: Dadaism 'Against' Modernism (March 08) |
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Angela Jones is a Ph.D student in the Sociology Department of the New School for Social Research. She is currently an adjunct lecturer of Sociology within the City University of New York, teaching undergraduate courses at both Baruch and York Colleges. Angela is also working on her dissertation, entitled “The Niagara Movement 1905-1910: Intellectual Networks, Social Change, & the Making of Black Publics.” Her research interests are expansive. While her dissertation speaks to the existing sociological literature on social change, intellectuals, African American historiography, and publics, she also conducts research in gender and queer studies. When Angela is not teaching, writing her dissertation, conducting ethnography, or reading, she also enjoys watching the game and drinking a Miller Lite. Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Consumption of Sex (May 08) Somewhere Over the Rainbow: An Investigation into LGBTQ Domestic Violence (March 08) Invasion of the Postmodern Bodysnatchers: Female Contraception Discourse in Cyberspace (Dec 07) |
Ellen is a Liberal Studies MA candidate. When she is not jockeying for the attention of pop culture icons, she enjoys watching Top Chef; typing; and discrediting the Drake Equation. She is an associate producer for the upcoming documentary "My Mother's Beauty Cream." The Conversation I Will Never Have With Chuck Klosterman (May 08) |
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Robin Lester will be receiving her MA in Sociology in May 2008. Her studies have focused on ethnography, urban sociology and the sociology of class. Currently, she writes the popular Clinton Hill Blog and was recently hired as the Communications Manager at Project for Public Spaces. |
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Shaun Nanavati has been telling stories all his life. He was formerly the editor of The Catalyst while an undergraduate at Bucknell, where he was influenced profoundly by the beats Ginsberg, Kerouac, Gary Snyder, and Paul Bowles. Chasing the ghost of Jack Kerouac, he spent five psychonautically-inspired years in Boulder where he was a journalist for The Boulder Weekly. He is now a graduate student in Psychology at the New School and can be occasionally found sharing adventures from his youth at coffee shops and pubs throughout the West Village. the madman and the night (May 08) The Stone Mason's Wife (March 08)
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Steve Newman is in his third semester of the Psychology grad program at the NSSR. Father of two; grandfather of two; he holds that it is the journey that counts - the destination is the same for all. A wounded healer – “if you haven't been in the mud, how do you know how to get it off?” Believes that most things in life are transitory illusions and the only thing that has real value is love. You find it - work like hell to grow it and keep it! Sky Spot O honored Dionysius
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Serdar Paktin is a first year grad student in the Liberal Studies Department at the NSSR. He is a Fulbright Scholar from Turkey, the country. He was produced by a military family and has graduated from a military high school. He—not me—continued to the Air Force Academy until he said: I'm done. Now, he is academically interested in phenomenology, linguistics, religion and media—and tries to figure out "the dynamics of meaning giving." I don't know why I am talking about myself as a third person I am also a journalist and a translator. A Ph.D? Why not! Defining Secularism (May 08)
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K. Jody Rucks, a first year Liberal Studies student, is an avant-garde auteur and poet. His artistic work is a fusion of his interests in philosophy and social change. He has written, directed, and produced several short films, and has written three feature length screenplays, in addition to over 40 poems and short stories. Ode to Atheism Historical Cons
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Roy Scranton is working on his MA in Liberal Studies, after having spent the last ten years hitchhiking, protesting, flipping eggs, and serving in the U.S. Army. Stories and poems of his have been published in various places. He is currently writing a novel about the Iraq War. Featured Prose Poem |
Harley Spiller, who's gunning for an MA in Liberal Studies, loves writing about himself in the third person. This summer he’s doing an independent study focused on the random notes and messages he’s peeled off the lampposts and surfaces of NYC for the past 20 years. Some images of this “scrawl” can be found in his first story from the Dec 07 issue of canon. Email Harley at ic@inspectorcollector.com This, That, and the Other (March 08) |
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Ted Strauss grew up in Winnipeg, one of the coldest places in the world. His writing is often accompanied by music. He's in the Psychology Department at the NSSR. Ted is based in Brooklyn, and basted in bourbon. Mammalina (March 08)
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Mihnea is completing his second year as an MA student in Philosophy. His academic interests lie in the field of philosophy, while his overarching passion lies in transgressing that field with every occasion. He believes that philosophy is not done justice when it remains within its confined discourse. Rather, philosophizing itself is the drive to call established dogma into question in such a way as to allow thinking to develop in new forms. In this light, stories become important as a truly philosophical inquiry that can incorporate and make recourse to our shared aesthetic feeling. Featured Short Story |
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My interest in the humanities derives from a perspective on art, literature, and theory as a possible basis for social critique. In the critical thought within these areas there is room for activism and a questioning of political and cultural values, such as how a canon is formed and maintained and how creative pieces or new theoretical readings can be used to reveal and question it. My main theoretical focus is on postcolonial and feminist theory, and I think that analyses of literature, art, and philosophy are of greatest interest when they can be related to a political reality. I am a also on the editorial board and a contributing writer to the Swedish cultural magazine Slut ("The End" or "Slut"). Are the others called Jews here?: On the novel Abahn, Sabana, David by Marguerite Duras (Dec 07)
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Justin is currently writing his thesis about his experiences teaching in the Boston juvenile justice system, which he plans to turn into a full memoir and publish in the coming years. His supremely talented wife (also a writer) informs him that he's "too loyal to everything that happened." He concurs, yet still finds it difficult to choose what stays and what goes. After all, working in a juvenile "prison" yields many worthwhile stories. Justin would like to thank his canon co-editor Suzanne Farrell for all her encouragement and creativity. The Russian Army (May 08) Just Words: Hillary and Barack discuss the many issues concerning our nation (March 08) |
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