  Lester
Faigley holds the Robert Adger Law and Thos. H. Law Professorship
in Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. He was the founding
director of the Division (now Department) of Rhetoric and Writing
at Texas in 1993, and he served as the 1996 Chair of the Conference
on College Composition and Communication. Faigley has published over
twenty books and editions, including Fragments of Rationality
(Pittsburgh, 1992), which received the MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize. |
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Professor Goldberg's work ranges over issues of political theory, race and racism, ethics, law and society, critical theory, cultural studies and, increasingly, digital humanities. Together with Cathy Davidson of Duke University, he founded the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) to promote partnerships between the human sciences, arts, social sciences and technology and supercomputing interests for advancing research, teaching and public outreach. He has authored numerous books, including The Racial State (2002); Racial Subjects: Writing on Race in America (1997); Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning (1993); and Ethical Theory and Social Issues: Historical Texts and Contemporary Readings (1989/1995). |
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She is the Founding Editor of Vectors, www.vectorsjournal.org, a multimedia peer-reviewed journal, and was recently selected as one of three editors for the new MacArthur-supported International Journal of Learning and Media (forthcoming from MIT Press in 2009. Tara was among the founding organizers of Race in Digital Space, a multi-year project supported by the Annenberg Center for Communication and the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations. She is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Archives, has frequently served as an AFI juror, is a core board member of HASTAC, and is on the boards of several journals. With support from the Mellon Foundation, she is currently working with colleagues from Brown, NYU, Rochester, and UC San Diego to explore the feasibility of a digital hub for visual culture research. |
David
Theo Goldberg
is the Director of the University of California Humanities Research
Institute, the University of California system-wide research facility
for the human sciences and theoretical research in the arts. He
also holds faculty appointments as Professor of Comparative Literature
and Criminology, Law and Society at UC Irvine, and is a Fellow of
the UCI Critical Theory Institute.
Tara
McPherson is Associate Professor of Gender and Critical
Studies at the University of Southern California’s School
of Cinematic Arts. Her Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender and
Nostalgia in the Imagined South (Duke UP: 2003) received the
2004 John G. Cawelti Award for the outstanding book published on
American Culture, among other awards. She is co-editor of Hop
on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture (Duke
UP: 2003) and editor of Digital Youth, Innovation and the Unexpected,
part of the MacArthur Foundation series on Digital Media and Learning
(MIT Press, 2008.) Her writing has appeared in numerous journals
and edited anthologies. Her new media research focuses on issues
of convergence, gender, and race, as well as upon the development
of new tools and paradigms for digital publishing, learning, and
authorship.