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  • Contributors

Destiny O. Birdsong is a poet and essayist whose poems have either appeared or are forthcoming in At Length, Little Patuxent Review, Potomac Review, Rattle, and elsewhere. Her critical work recently appeared in African American Review, and a coauthored chapter on Black Atlantic and diasporic literature (with Ifeoma C. K. Nwankwo) is forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature. She is a lecturer and academic advisor at Vanderbilt University, where she earned her MFA in 2009 and her Ph.D. in 2012.

Jennifer Harris is an associate professor at the University of Waterloo. Her essays have appeared in African American Review, Legacy, Canadian Literature, Journal of Canadian Studies, and elsewhere. She is the coeditor of the Norton Critical Editions of The Coquette and The Boarding School, as well as From Page to Place: American Literary Tourism and the Afterlives of Authors (U of Massachusetts P, 2017). She is currently researching understudied African American texts and authors from before 1900.

Thabiti Lewis is an associate professor of English at Washington State University Vancouver. He is editor of Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara (UP of Mississippi, 2012). His essays have appeared in CLA Journal, AmeriQuest, The Crisis, and in a range of popular media outlets. His scholarship focuses on the Black Arts Movement, the writer Toni Cade Bambara, and masculinity in African American literature and culture.

Paul Lomax, one who more often than not opens with P-Q4, also believes simplicity is the greatest panacea for what ails the “self.” His poetry is published in Anak Sastra, Pank Magazine, Poydras Review, Making/Connections—Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultural Diversity, Dark Matter Journal, and Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, the Arts, and the Humanities.

Philip Miletic is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Waterloo. His areas of study include twentieth-century American literature, media studies, and auto/biography theory, and the intersecting relationships between these areas.

Gregory Phipps’s first book, Henry James and the Philosophy of Literary Pragmatism, was published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2016. His various articles have appeared in The Henry James Review, Studies in the Novel, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Textual Practice, and Philosophy and Literature. At present, he is a Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford.

Howard Rambsy II teaches African American literature courses at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He has written articles, curated mixed media exhibits, and produced blog entries focusing on literary history, poetry, and the intersections of race and technology.

Ellen C. Scott is an associate professor of Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA. She is the author of Cinema Civil Rights: Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era (Rutgers UP, 2015).

Mai Sennaar’s transatlantic family saga The Fall of Kings recently completed a successful two-month run in New York City. Sennaar splits her time between Brooklyn and Baltimore. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a proud alumna of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. [End Page 295]

Derik Smith is an assistant professor in the SUNY-Albany Department of English. He works in critical race studies in a transnational and global context, African American poetry, American popular culture, and relations between aesthetic movements and radical black politics in America.

Dana A. Williams is a professor of African American literature and chair of English at Howard University. She is immediate past-president of the College Language Association and an executive committee member of the MLA LLC Forum African American Literature (formerly, the Black American Literature and Culture Division). [End Page 296]

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