Contributors
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Rachael DeWitt is a PhD student in English at the University of California–Davis. Her work focuses on representations of ecological crisis in nineteenth-century American prose. Her dissertation examines the relationship between literary genre and environmental change in the antebellum period.
Melody Jue is an assistant professor of English at the University of California–Santa Barbara. Her research interests include ocean and environmental humanities, science fiction, and science and technology studies. Professor Jue has published articles in Grey Room, Women's Studies Quarterly, Animations, Humanities Circle, and the edited collection Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction. Drawing on the experience of scuba diving, her current book project, Wild Blue Media, aims to develop a theory of media specific to the ocean environment.
Brian Lennon is the author of In Babel's Shadow: Multilingual Literatures, Monolingual States (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) and Passwords: Philology, Security, Authentication (Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2018). He is currently working on a study of programming languages and cultures of software development entitled "Autologies: Software Language Culture."
Nicole Lobdell is a visiting assistant professor of English at DePauw University. Her research interests include nineteenth-century literature, material culture, science and technology, and science fiction. She has published on Mary Shelley's short [End Page 115] fictions and adaptations of William Blake's poetry and has coedited a new critical edition of H. G. Wells's The Invisible Man, which is forthcoming from Broadview Press. She is currently at work on a book about nineteenth-century literature and material culture entitled Victorian Stuff: A History of Hoarding.
Shaoling Ma is an assistant professor of literature at Yale-NUS College, Singapore where she teaches and researches at the intersection of critical and literary theory, media and technology studies, as well as Chinese and Sinophone literature, art, and cultural history. She is currently working on her book manuscript, China and "New" Media, 1861–1911, which argues that writing became new during the late Qing period when it evoked and simulated new media techniques of communication and recording, and in doing so synthesized and manipulated the usual oppositions between Chinese thought and Western learning, tradition and modernity, essence and application. She has published in Angelaki, Theory and Event, Science Fiction Studies, and Mediations: Journal of the Marxist Literary Group (forthcoming).
Maria O'Connell is an assistant professor of English in the School of Languages and Literature at Wayland Baptist University, and has taught American and world literature on various levels. Her research interests are interdisciplinary, including social systems theory, gender, translation, and social constructions of persons in Western/Southwestern American literature. She has published on Jack London, Cormac McCarthy, and the Breaking Bad television series.
Jocelyn Rodal is a visiting fellow at Penn State's Center for Humanities and Information. She received her PhD in English from the University of California–Berkeley in 2016, and was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Rutgers Center for Cultural Analysis. She is currently at work on a book manuscript entitled Modernism's Mathematics: From Form to Formalism. That project reads literary modernism alongside a contemporaneous modernist movement in mathematics. Looking at authors such as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and Virginia Woolf, she argues that modernists were using mathematics to create and elucidate form—form that, in turn, engendered formalism in literary studies. Modernism's Mathematics uses modernist mathematical theories of syntax and semantics to understand form, arguing that formalism, as a reading practice, has structural and historical roots in mathematics. [End Page 116]
Isabel Waidner is a lecturer in English and creative writing at the University of Roehampton (London, UK). She is the author of several books of experimental fiction, most recently Gaudy Bauble (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2017). Her short fiction has appeared widely, in journals including 3:AM, Berfrois, and Minor Literature[s]. She is the editor of The Arrow Maker (a journal for art and literature), and managing editor of Subjectivity (Palgrave). [End Page 117]
