Contributors
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Andrzej Gąsiorek is a reader in English literature at the University of Birmingham. His first monograph, Post-war British Fiction (Arnold, 1995), concentrated on the various responses to the afterlives of modernism and to the challenges posed by postmodernism. More recently he has published J. G. Ballard (Manchester, 2005) and co-edited The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Vol. IV: The Reinvention of the British and Irish Novel, 1880–1940 (Oxford, 2010) and The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms (Oxford, 2010). He is co-editor, with Deborah Parsons and Michael Valdez-Moses, of the journal Modernist Cultures.
David James teaches modern and contemporary literature at Queen Mary, University of London. The author of Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space (Continuum, 2008), he most recently edited The Legacies of Modernism (Cambridge, 2011) and is currently editing The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945 (forthcoming in 2015). With Matthew Hart and Rebecca L. Walkowitz, he edits the book series Literature Now at Columbia University Press. His latest monograph is Modernist Futures (Cambridge, 2012).
Abigail Ward is a lecturer in English at the University of Nottingham, where she is also a member of the Institute for the Study of Slavery. She is the author of Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D’Aguiar: Representations of Slavery (Manchester, 2011). Currently she is working on a monograph funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council examining literary representations of Indian indenture in Trinidadian and Guyanese writing.
Amy Hungerford is a professor of English and the director of undergraduate studies at Yale University. She is a founding member of Post•45, a collective of scholars working on postwar American literature and culture. The author of The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and Personification (Chicago, 2003), her most recent monograph is Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960 (Princeton, 2010).
Peter Boxall is a professor of English at the University of Sussex. His research in post-millennial literary culture has informed two recent monographs: Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction (Routledge, 2006) and Since Beckett: Contemporary Writing in the Wake of Modernism (Continuum, 2009). His next book, Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2013.
Roger Luckhurst is a professor of modern and contemporary literature at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author, most recently, of The Trauma Question (Routledge, 2008) and The Mummy’s Curse (Oxford, 2012).
Amy J. Elias is an associate professor of English at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction (Johns Hopkins, [End Page 904] 2001) and has published extensively on contemporary fiction, narrative theory, time and history studies, and postmodernism. A founder of ASAP (Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present), she is currently co-editing two essay collections under press consideration and is finishing a monograph about dialogue in contemporary literary and visual art.
Dave Gunning is a lecturer in English literature at the University of Birmingham. His work spans a number of post-imperial and postcolonial contexts, with a particular emphasis on black British and Anglophone South Asian writing. He is the author of Race and Antiracism in Black British and British Asian Literature (Liverpool, 2010) and is currently working on a study of the postcolonial essay. He is chair of the Postcolonial Studies Association. His latest book is Postcolonial Literature (Edinburgh, 2013).
Dorothy J. Hale is a professor of English at the University of California–Berkeley, where her research and teaching focus on narratology, the poetics of fictional consciousness, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature. She is the author of Social Formalism: The Novel in Theory from Henry James to the Present (Stanford, 1998) and has published widely on conceptualizations of the modern novel. Her current book project is titled “Novelistic Aesthetics and the New Ethics.” [End Page 905]
