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Satish Sharma is a professor and former Director of the School of Social Work,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His research interests focus on Gandhian
welfare thought and nonviolence in cultures. He is the author of four
books/monographs and is widely published nationally and internationally. His
latest book, Gandhi’s Gurus: Rajchandra Ravjibhai Mehta, has recently been
published by Gujarat Vidyapith in India.
Armand Singer, former Chair, Humanities Program, West Virginia University,
has published many articles {The European Legacy, Popular Culture Review,
PMLA, Comparative Literature Studies, etc.), four bibliographies on the Don
Juan theme, a volume on Paul Borget, five books and two monographs on
Tibetan and Nepalese philately, and two collections of his own limericks.
Editor: The WVU Philological Papers (1952-2004); Co-editor, 2005Laurens Tan has just been awarded his doctorate at the University of
Technology Sydney. Risk as Pleasure is one of the initial chapters in his thesis
The Architecture of Risk and the title of his current series of installations and
sculptures. His work considers time and chance as he continues his
investigations in entertainment design. He was a finalist for the 2005 Helen
Lempriere National Sculpture Award and the 2005 McClelland National
Contemporary Sculpture Survey & Award, both in Melbourne, Australia.
Laurens was the 2005 winner of the 43rd Fishers Ghost Award at the new
Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia. Laurens will conduct new
research in architectural sculpture as the Australia China Council artist-inresidence in Beijing (June-August 2006).
Jan W hitt is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass
Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Author of numerous
articles in popular culture, media studies, literary journalism, and American
literature, Whitt is completing a book about the history of women in journalism.
Her book Allegory and the Modern Southern Novel was published by Mercer
University Press in 1993.