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  • Contributors

Sunny Chan is a doctoral candidate in the department of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has published articles on Asian American history in the environmental justice movement and on Fred Wah’s poetics. Her dissertation examines experimental poetry of the Asian diaspora, including contemporary digital and multimedia works.

Sean Francis Ward, visiting assistant professor of English at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, has published on T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom and contemporary counterinsurgency. He is writing a book titled “A Feeling of Functional Anarchy: Total War, the Politics of the Small Group, and Literary Form.”

Josh Schneiderman is a doctoral candidate in English at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He has published articles on Johnny Cash and Robert Lowell and has edited the 1955-56 correspondence of Kenneth Koch and Frank O’Hara (Lost & Found, 2009). His dissertation is on the poetics of ephemerality in postwar American poetry.

Isidore Diala is professor of English and literary studies at Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria. He is the author of Esiaba Irobi’s Drama and the Postcolony: Theory and Practice of Postcolonial Performance (Kraft Books, 2014), and editor of Syncretic Arenas: Essays on Postcolonial Drama and Theatre for Esiaba Irobi (Rodopi, 2014). He has published articles on Christopher Okigbo and contemporary Nigerian poets.

Joseph Darda, assistant professor of English at Texas Christian University, has published articles on humanitarian militarism, 9/11 photography, Korean War fiction, critical refugee studies, Chester Himes, the civil rights movement, the Los Angeles riots, and Mohsin Hamid. He edited a special issue of LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory titled Literary Counterhistories of U.S. Exceptionalism (2014). His current project is a book manuscript titled “Empire of Defense: Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War.” He is a 2016-17 Mellon Sawyer Seminar fellow at the University of California, Irvine.

Lisa Hollenbach, assistant professor of English at Oklahoma State University, has published articles on post-1945 American poetry and sound studies.

Anthony Lioi is associate professor of liberal arts and English at The Juilliard School. His publications include Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), a special issue of CrossCurrents on climate change and religion (2016), and articles on climate change and humanities pedagogy, ecomedia theory, and contemporary American literature.

Sarah Senk is assistant professor in the department of culture and communication at California State University Maritime Academy. She has published [End Page 471] articles on trauma and memory studies, Anglophone Caribbean poetry, and post-9/11 commemorative practice.

Ankhi Mukherjee is professor of English and world literatures at Wadham College, University of Oxford. Her books include Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction (Routledge, 2007) and What Is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon (Stanford, 2014). Her edited collection After Lacan is forthcoming in 2017 from Cambridge University Press. [End Page 472]

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