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William S. Haney II received his AB from the University of California at Berkeley and, in 1984, his Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis. He has taught at UC Davis, the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, MIU in Fairfield, Iowa, Eastern Mediterranean University in North Cyprus, and Inha University in South Korea.  Since 2003 he has been teaching in the Department of English and Translation Studies at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. He teaches contemporary British and American literature, literary theory, and cultural studies.  His books and edited collections focus on contemporary British and American literature, often from a consciousness studies perspective.  They include: Literary Theory and Sanskrit Poetics: Language, Consciousness and Meaning (1993), in which he compares Sanskrit poetics and poststucturalist theories, constructing an alternative poetics through an exegesis of works by Barthes, Derrida, Joyce, Soyinka, Faulkner and Pynchon; a collection (co-edited with Peter Malekin) on Humanism and the Humanities in the 21st Century (Bucknell University Press, 2001); and Culture and Consciousness: Literature Regained (Bucknell University Press, 2002).  He is currently working on two book projects: Sacred Theatre (co-authored), and Cybercultures, Cyborgs, and Science Fiction: Consciousness and the Posthuman.