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ANDRÉS AMERIKANER recently completed a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Penn State University, with a minor in Latin American Studies. He researches post-Boom Latin American literary movements, focusing on the impact of neoliberal policies on authorial communities.

ÉTIENNE BALIBAR is a preeminent Marxist philosopher. He is currently an Anniversary Chair Professor at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University and a Visiting Professor at the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University. His latest publications are Equaliberty (2014), Violence and Civility (2015), and Citizenship (2015).

RON BEN-TOVIM is an adjunct lecturer at Tel Aviv University's Department of English and American Studies and Visiting Scholar to the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. His current book project, titled War and the Undoing of Language, is a reworking of his Ph.D. thesis. War and the Undoing of Language focuses on contemporary soldier poetry, claiming that postwar poems serve as attempts to reconstruct language in the aftermath of war.

ROBERT BIRDWELL earned his Ph.D. from Penn State University. His forthcoming monograph on The Radical Novel and the Classless Society is a study of the phenomenon of recognition in American utopian and proletarian novels.

NISSA REN CANNON is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of California, Santa Barbara where she works on transatlantic modernism, citizenship, and print culture. She has published on Jean Toomer's Cane, and has a forthcoming article on the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune.

TOM COHEN co-edits with Claire Colebrook the "Critical Climate Chaos 2: Irreversibility" series with Open Humanities Press, which explores the shift from an Anthropocene Imaginary to that of the Trumpocene we have entered—when tipping points are passed, and an era of managed extinction events unfolds on its own clock. His authored, co-authored and edited volumes include Anti-Mimesis, Ideology and Inscription, Hitchcock's Cryptonymies I & II, Jacques Derrida and the Humanities, Material Events, and more recently, Telemorphosis: Theory in an Era of Climate Change, Theory and the Disappearing Future, and Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols. [End Page 594]

CAITLYN DOYLE is Visiting Assistant Professor of French at Northwestern University. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Meanwhile: The Politics of Possible Worlds.

SØREN FRANK is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Southern Denmark. His publications fall within literature of migration and maritime literature and culture. Frank is a member of the Young Academy of Europe and is chair of the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award's academic advisory board.

RANJAN GHOSH teaches in the Department of English, University of North Bengal. To know more about his work you may visit: http://www.ranjanghosh.com/.

HENRY A. GIROUX currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department. His most recent books are America at War with Itself (2017), The Public in Peril: Trump and the Menace of American Authoritarianism (2018), and American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism (2018). His web site is www.henryagiroux.com.

ROBIN TRUTH GOODMAN is Professor of English and Director of the Literature Program at Florida State University. Her prior publications include: Gender For the Warfare State: Literature of Women in Combat (2016); Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory (edited collection, 2015); Gender Work: Feminism After Neoliberalism (2013); Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public (2011); Policing Narratives and the State of Terror (2010); World, Class, Women: Global Literature, Education, and Feminism (2003); Strange Love, or How We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Market (co-written with Kenneth J. Saltman, 2002); and Infertilities: Exploring Fictions of Barren Bodies (2001).

JESPER GULDDAL is Associate Professor in Literary Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has published books and essays on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European literature and is currently working on a book on mobility and movement control in the novel of this period. Recent publications have appeared in journal such as New Literary History, Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature Studies and German Life and Letters. [End Page 595]

ERIN HOLLIDAY-KARRE is an Assistant Professor of literary criticism and...

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