Contributors
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Jeanne Heuving is director of the MFA program in creative writing and poetics at the University of Washington, Bothell. She is the author of Omissions Are Not Accidents: Gender in the Art of Marianne Moore (Wayne State, 1992) and of multiple essays on modernist and innovative writers. She has also published a cross-genre book, Incapacity (Chiasmus, 2004), and a volume of poetry, Transducer (Chax, 2008). Her current critical project is titled "The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics."
Michèle Barrett is Professor of Modern Literary and Cultural Theory in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London. Her recent work includes Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War (Verso, 2008) and "Subalterns at War: First World War Colonial Forces and the Politics of the Imperial War Graves Commission," in Can the Subaltern Speak? Reflections on the History of an Idea, edited by Rosalind C. Morris (Columbia, 2010).
Kevin Attell is assistant professor of English at Cornell University. He has published articles on twentieth-century literature and literary theory and is writing a book about the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben.
Valerie L. Popp, a doctoral candidate in English at the University of California-Los Angeles, has published articles on transnationalism and Latin America in the Harlem Renaissance and aesthetics and disability in D. H. Lawrence's poetry. Her dissertation is titled "The Art of the Modernist Body."
Paul Youngquist, professor of English at the University of Colorado, has published widely on both British Romanticism and science fiction. His most recent books are Monstrosities: Bodies and British Romanticism (Minnesota, 2003) and Cyberfiction: After the Future (Palgrave, 2010). He is finishing a book manuscript on cross-cultural encounters in the late-eighteenth-century British Caribbean.
Ashley T. Shelden, assistant professor of English at Kennesaw State University, in Kennesaw, Georgia, specializes in twentieth-century British literature, film, and queer theory. Her recent publications include an essay, "Learning to Love (Again)," in Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare, edited by Madhavi Menon (Duke, 2011). Her current project is a book manuscript titled "Making Love: Sexuality and Queer Attachments in the Modern British Novel."
Michael Rothberg is professor of English and Conrad Humanities Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is also director of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies Initiative. He publishes in the fields of critical theory and cultural studies, Holocaust studies, postcolonial studies, [End Page 414] and contemporary literatures. His most recent book is Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (Stanford, 2009).
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., professor of English at DePauw University, in Greencastle, Indiana, is the author of The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction (Wesleyan, 2008) and editor of The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010). His works in progress are an essay collection on science fiction and posthumanist culture and a monograph titled "Aliens."
Andrew Hoberek, associate professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia, is the author of The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work (Princeton, 2005). He is completing manuscripts on post-1960 U.S. fiction and foreign policy and on contemporary American writers' interest in genre fiction. In October, he will become president of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. [End Page 415]
