Contributors
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Phil O’Brien is a doctoral student in English literature at the University of Manchester. His article on class, history, and nostalgia in Gordon Burn’s The North of England Home Service is forthcoming in Textual Practice. His dissertation is on the working class in twenty-first-century British fiction.
Cameron Leader-Picone, assistant professor of English at Kansas State University, has published articles on contemporary African American literature, black politics, and satire. He is completing a book on the representation of racial identity in twenty-first-century African American literature. He recently wrote an article on post-Ferguson black protest music.
Andrew Strombeck, associate professor of English at Wright State University, in Dayton, Ohio, has published articles on Kathy Acker, William Gibson, Ishmael Reed, Richard Wright, and the Left Behind novels. He is writing a book on the avant-garde and New York’s financial crisis, 1975-1990.
Bonnie Roy is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of California, Davis. Her dissertation is titled “From Local Color to the Cloud: Spatial Work in American Poetics.”
Jennifer Wenzel is associate professor of English and comparative literature and of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African studies at Columbia University. Her published work includes Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond (Chicago, 2009) and articles on postcolonial theory and decolonization, postcolonial ecocriticism, and petrocultures and energy humanities. She co-edited the forthcoming collection Fueling Culture: Energy, History, Politics (Fordham, 2016).
Jack Dudley, assistant professor of English at Mount St. Mary’s University, in Emmitsburg, Maryland, has published articles on modernism, religion, and James Joyce. He is writing a book on modernism, contemporary literature, and postsecularism.
Priya Joshi, associate professor of English at Temple University, is the author of Bollywood’s India: A Public Fantasy (Columbia, 2015) and In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India (Columbia, 2002). She co-edited The 1970s and Its Legacies in India’s Cinemas (Routledge, 2014). Her work in progress includes a book manuscript on the global presence of the novel, “Retrofitting the Theory of the Novel.”
Anne Day Dewey teaches in the department of English at Saint Louis University, Madrid campus. She is the author of Beyond Maximus: The Construction of Public Voice in Black Mountain Poetry (Stanford, 2007). She co-edited Among Friends: Engendering the Social Site of Poetry (Iowa, 2013) and Denise Levertov’s [End Page 542] Collected Poems (New Directions, 2013). Her current project is a book on political identity in U.S. poetry after the 1960s.
George Hart, professor of English at California State University, Long Beach, is the author of Inventing the Language to Tell It: Robinson Jeffers and the Biology of Consciousness (Fordham, 2013). He co-edited Literature and the Environment (Greenwood, 2004) and has published annotated excerpts from Larry Eigner’s correspondence. He is completing a book manuscript titled “A Line That May Be Cut: Larry Eigner’s Ecopoetics.” [End Page 543]
