About
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Editor-in-chief: Bhakti Shringarpure is a writer and academic who received a BA in Literature from Bard College and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the City University of New York. She focuses on literature emerging from civil wars in the aftermath of European colonialism with an emphasis on narratives of nation, violence, gender and the figure of the "other." She has written for several independent magazines and journals and has taught a wide range of literature courses at CUNY colleges.
Editor-in-chief: Michael Bronner is a writer, filmmaker and journalist who spent many years at the weekday edition of CBS News/60 Minutes, reporting from the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Asia. He freelances for Vanity Fair, The Huffington Post and others, writing long, literary investigative pieces. His credits in feature film includes United 93 and Green Zone. His work has been recognized with a Peabody Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting, several Emmy nominations and the President's Choice Award for a Vanity Fair piece on the 9/11 attacks. bronner@warscapes.com
Senior Editor: Veruska Cantelli is a writer, academic and translator originally from Rome and Umbria. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and taught literature at Queens College for several years. Her work focuses on women's autobiographies, particularly on non-western narratives of the self. She studied modern and contemporary dance at the Mary Anthony Dance Studio and the Trisha Brown Studio, and has performed with the Human Kinetics Movement Arts. She is an Assistant Professor in the ALESA program of English department at the University of Tokyo, Japan. veruska@warscapes.com
Editor, Opinions: Michael Busch is a writer and researcher who received his BA in Philosophy and the History of Mathematics and Science from St. John's College in Annapolis, MD. He is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His work focuses on the political economy of transnational organized crime. He has written extensively on world politics for newspapers, online magazines and journals and currently teaches international relations at City College in New York. busch@warscapes.com
Editor, Poetry: Noam Scheindlin is a poet and literary theorist. His research interests center on the poetics of narrative form, and the relation of narrative to the experience of everyday life. He is a student of writers, such as Georges Perec and Edmond Jabès, whose work confronts a breakdown in communication. His volumes of poetry include The Proper Conditions for Flight (G-Train Books) and Unorganized Territory (Ten Pell). He holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the CUNY Graduate Center, and is currently Assistant Professor at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. scheindlin@warscapes.com
Editorial Intern: Aleksandra Polonetskaya received her BA in English Literature and Biological Sciences from Hunter College (City University of New York) in June 2012.
Editorial Intern and Translator: Liz Jacob will receive her BA in History and French & Francophone Studies from Columbia University in May 2013. She translates from French into English.
Editorial Intern: Caritas Doha will receive her BA in Political Science from City College (City University of New York) in May 2013.
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The Magazine
Warscapes is an independent online magazine that provides a lens into current conflicts across the world.
Warscapes publishes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, interviews, book and film reviews, photo-essays and retrospectives of war literature from the past fifty years.
Warscapes is motivated by a need to move past a void within mainstream culture in the depiction of people and places experiencing staggering violence, and the literature they produce.
Apart from showcasing great writing from war-torn areas, the magazine is a tool for understanding complex political crises in various regions and serves as an alternative to compromised representations of those issues.
