Todd Barnes has a BA in English from Berkeley. He is interested in Shakespeare in modern filmic performance and theories of adaptation as they relate to issues of representation and subject formation.

Brooke Belisle has a BA in English from Princeton and an MA in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU. She concentrates on issues of subjectivity, materiality and interaction in literature and digital media.

Emily Carpenter has a BA in Government from Smith College. She studies the relationship between gender and visual culture in the scientific arena.

Jack Caughran has a BA in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard. He brings the critical tools of narratology, historiography, and post-colonial studies, to his research in Native American material culture.

Colin Dingler has a BA in Rhetoric from UCB. He is interested in the intersections of poetry/poetics and interdisciplinary approaches to language theory.

Angela R. Hill earned a BA in Critical Social Thought from Mount Holyoke College. Presently, she works on the politics of marginalization, menacing bodies and the penal state, incarnation, and state projects of legal exclusion.

Satyel Larson has BA in English from Berkeley. Her primary interest is in international legal theory and questions of collective sovereignty and individual rights in Francophone West and Central Africa.

Ben Lempert has a BA in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley and most of a BFA in Jazz Performance from the New School in New York. His Interests include Heidegger and phenomenology, poetry and poetics, psychoanalysis, critical philosophy, American literature, jazz and improvised music.

Masumi Matsumoto has a BA in Rhetoric and Philosophy from Berkeley. She studies war crimes and human rights tribunals from the Second World War to the present.

Benjamin Morgan has a BA in Literature from Harvard. He is interested in Twentieth Century literature, particularly postmodernism.

Milos Petrovic has a BA in Architecture and Philosophy from Berkeley. His work is in political/social philosophy and philosophy of law, as well as in philosophy of art.

Brad Rogers has a BA in Music from the University of Virginia. He combines his training in musicology with wide-ranging interests in drama, performance theory, popular culture, hermeneutics, and gender studies.

Jennifer Stewart holds degrees in philosophy from the University of Calgary (BA HON) and Carleton University in Ottawa (MA). She studies the history of philosophy with focus on the 18th Century (Locke, Condillac, Rousseau), 20th Century phenomenology, and contemporary analytic philosophy of mind and perception, while hoping some day to be elected to Parliament.

Vincent Tafolla has a BA in English from the University of Nebraska. His work focuses on the crossroads of technology, psychology, and religion with a focus on aesthetics.

Zhivka Valiavicharska studied Art History in Sofia and received her M.A. in Modern Art History and Theory from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her interests include modern political philosophy and social theory, critical theory, postcolonial studies, and the histories of marxist thought. Currently she works on culture and neoliberalism in post-socialist Southeastern Europe.

Yves Winter has a B.Sc. in Government and Economics from the London School of Economics and a Maitrise and a DEA in Philosophy for the University of Paris X. His dissertation is a study of violence in the political theories of Niccolo Machiavelli and Karl Marx.