Contributors
- Contributors
Megha Anwer, manwer@purdue.edu, is a final-year PhD candidate in the English Department at Purdue University. Her dissertation titled “Navigating the Necropolis: Urban Corpses, Metropolitan Mobility and Narratives of Crime and Terror” examines the ways in which nineteenth-century and contemporary postcolonial narratives of violence engage the urban and intersect with questions of mobility for Victorian women and twenty-first-century Muslim men. Her project works closely with literary, cinematic, and photographic texts. She has published articles in A Review of International English Literature (ARIEL), Victorian Studies, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Short Film Studies, and Widescreen.
Víctor Goldgel Carballo, victorgoldgel@gmail.com, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research and teaching focus on nineteenth-century Latin American literature, media history, visual culture, and racial categories. He is the author of Cuando lo nuevo conquistó América. Prensa, moda y literatura en el siglo XIX (Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 2013), awarded the Premio Iberoamericano by the Latin American Studies Association, which reconstructs the emergence of the new as a modern criterion of value in Latin America. A recipient of fellowships and grants from the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, and the John W. Kluge Center, among others, he is currently at work on a book project entitled Passing as Open Secret: Race and Fictions of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Cuba.
Darien Lamen, darien.lamen@gmail.com, is an ethnomusicologist specializing in the music of Brazil and the circum-Caribbean. He has received fellowships from the Social Sciences Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies, and has published on topics from labor and circulation to cosmopolitanism and social poetics. He is currently an A.W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is working on a book project on the imagination of the future in the Brazilian Amazon.
John Nimis, jnimis@wisc.edu, is currently Assistant Professor of African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his PhD in French at New York University, and also holds degrees in Music Performance and Physics. His research and teaching focus on cultural studies, literary theory, and popular culture, with a main research project on the popular music of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Lingala language. [End Page 128]
Juan Poblete, jpoblete@ucsc.edu, is Professor of Latin/o American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Literatura chilena del siglo XIX: Entre públicos lectores y figuras autoriales (Santiago: Cuarto Propio, 2003), editor of Critical Latin American and Latino Studies (University of Minnesota Press, 2003), and co-editor of Andrés Bello (with Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephan, IILI, 2009), Redrawing The Nation: National Identities in Latin/o American Comics (with Héctor Fernández-L’ Hoeste, Palgrave, 2009), Desdén al infortunio: Sujeto, comunicación y público en la narrativa de Pedro Lemebel (with Fernando Blanco, Santiago: Cuarto Propio, 2010), Sports and Nationalism in Latin America (with Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Robert McKee-Irwin, Palgrave, 2015), and Humor and Cinema in Latin America (with Juana Suárez, Palgrave, 2015). He is currently at work on two book projects: one on labor and affect in Latin American cinema, and another titled Angel Rama y la crítica cultural latinoamericana (Angel Rama and Latin American Cultural Critique).
Sarah Ann Wells, swells1@nd.edu, is Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of Notre Dame. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2009. She is the co-editor of the forthcoming volume Simultaneous Worlds: Global Science Fiction Cinema (U of Minnesota P) and the author of the book Media Laboratories: Late Modernism in South America (under contract with Northwestern UP). Her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Modernism/Modernity, Luso-Brazilian Review, and Revista Iberoamericana, among other venues in the US, Europe, and Latin America.
Wendy Willems, w.willems@lse.ac.uk, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and...
