Cesare Casarino

Cesare Casarino is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies  and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota.  He is the author of Modernity at Sea: Melville, Marx, Conrad in Crisis (University of Minnesota 2002), co-author of In Praise of the Common: A Conversation on Philosophy and Politics (University of Minnesota 2008) with Antonio Negri, co-editor of Marxism Beyond Marxism (Routledge 1996) with  Saree Makdisi and Rebecca Karl, as well as co-translator with Vincenzo Binetti of Giorgio Agamben’s Means without End (University of Minnesota 2000).  His essays on literature, cinema, and philosophy have appeared in boundary 2, October, Raritan, Strategies, Paragraph, Social Text, and Arizona Quarterly.