ContributorS

Emily Apter is Julius Silver Professor of
French and Comparative Literature and Chair
of Comparative Literature at New York
University. Her books include Unexceptional
Politics: On Obstruction, Impasse and the
Impolitic (Verso, 2018); Against World
Literature: On The Politics of Untranslatability
(2013); Dictionary of Untranslatables: A
Philosophical Lexicon (2014); and The
Translation Zone: A New Comparative
Literature (2006). She is currently working
on a book titled What Is Just Translation? Her
essays have appeared in Political Concepts,
October, PMLA, Comparative Literature, Art
Journal, Third Text, Paragraph, Boundary 2,
Artforum, and Critical Inquiry. In spring
2019 she was a Fellow at the American
Academy in Berlin. In 2017–18 she served
as President of the American Comparative
Literature Association and spent fall 2014
as a Humanities Council Fellow at Princeton
University. In 2003–2004 she was a
Guggenheim Fellowship recipient.

Lindsay Caplan is a Postdoctoral Research
Associate in Modern and Contemporary
Art at Brown University. Her writing has
appeared in Grey Room, The Scholar &
Feminist Online, and e-flux Journal, as well
as edited collections and exhibition cata-
logs. She is currently preparing a book
manuscript on computation and control
in Italian art of the 1960s.

Angela Harutyunyan is Associate
Professor of Art History at the American
University of Beirut. She is editor of the
ARTMargins peer-reviewed journal (MIT
Press). Her research interests include post-
socialist art of Eastern Europe and the
former Soviet Union, Socialist Realism and
Stalinism, contemporary art in the Middle
East, and methods and theories of exhibi-
tions, among other topics. She has been a
curator of several exhibitions, including This
Is the Time: This Is the Record of the Time
(with Nat Muller), at SMBA in Amsterdam

and the AUB Art Galleries in Beirut (2014
and 2015). Her monograph The Political
Aesthetics of the Armenian Avant-Garde: The
Journey of the “Painterly Real” was published
by Manchester University Press in 2017
and 2019.

Hiba Kalache is an interdisciplinary artist
born in Beirut whose practice spans installa-
tion, drawing, painting, and sculpture. In
2005, Kalache received a Masters of Fine Arts
from California College of the Arts (CCA) in
San Francisco. In 2017, she taught fine arts
at the Lebanese American University. In
2018, she had a solo show in Beirut at Saleh
Barakat Gallery.

Katarzyna Pieprzak is Professor of French
and Comparative Literature at Williams
College. She is the author of Imagined
Museums: Art and Modernity in Contemporary
Morocco (University of Minnesota Press,
2010), and co-editor of Land and Landscape in
Francographic Literature and of a special issue
of Critical Interventions titled Africanity and
North Africa. Her current book in progress,
Elements of Environment and the Traveling
Bidonville, explores the relationship between
aesthetics, urban housing, and political con-
stitution in shantytowns in North Africa
and France.

Freya Schiwy is Associate Professor of
Media and Cultural Studies at the University
of California, Riverside. She teaches in the
Media and Cultural Studies Department and
in the Hispanic Studies Department. She
is the author of Indianizing Film: Decoloni-
zation, the Andes, and the Question of Tech-
nology (Rutgers University Press, 2009) and
of The Open Invitation: Activist Video, Mexico,
and the Politics of Affect (University of Pitts-
burgh Press, 2019). Together with Byrt
Wammack Weber, she recently co-edited
Adjusting the Lens: Collaborative and
Community Video in Mexico (University
of Pittsburgh Press, 2017).

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