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  • Contributors

SANJA BAHUN <sbahun@essex.ac.uk> is Professor in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex. She is the author of Modernism and Melancholia: Writing as Countermourning (2014) and numerous articles and book chapters concerning modernism, world literature, psycho-analytic theory, and intellectual history. She is also the editor of more than ten collections of essays and special issues of journals. She serves on the Executive Committee of the British Comparative Literature Association.

MARINA BILBIJA <mbilbija@wesleyan.edu> is an assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University. She is currently working on a book manuscript on the culture of reprinting and collaboration between Afrodiasporic editors across the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Anglophone world. More generally, her work examines the centrality of African American cultural production to the field of the Global Anglophone.

ARIF CAMOGLU <arifcamoglu2014@u.northwestern.edu> is a PhD candidate in the Comparative Literary Studies program at Northwestern University. His research and writing focus on the intersecting literary and political histories of the Ottoman and British empires as well as the connections between national and imperial aesthetics and epistemologies. His dissertation investigates the conceptualizations of empire in British and Ottoman romanticisms.

LAURA DOYLE < ldoyle@english.umass.edu> is Professor of English at University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Her publications include Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture; Freedom’s Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640–1940; and two edited collections: Bodies of Resistance: New Phenomenologies of Politics, Agency, and Culture, and Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity (with Laura Winkiel). She codirects the World Studies Interdisciplinary Project with economist Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji (wsipworldstudies.wordpress.com), and she coedits both the Edinburgh University Press Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures series and the Global Circulation Project. Her monograph on inter-imperiality will appear in 2019.

STEPHEN JOYCE <sjoyce@cc.au.dk> is the author of A River of Han: Eastern Tragedy in a Western Land (2015), a study of Korean American literature. He has published numerous articles on Asian American literature, as well as on a variety of media topics. His forthcoming monograph is Transmedia Storytelling and the Apocalypse (2018), an exploration of the rise of the postapocalyptic genre. He teaches media, communication, and literature at Aarhus University, Denmark.

NAYOUNG AIMEE KWON <na.kwon@duke.edu> is the author of Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan (2015) and coeditor of Transcolonial Film Coproductions in the Japanese Empire, a special issue of Cross-Currents (2012). She is currently working on a manuscript that examines the dilemmas of visibility and invisibility in postcolonial cold war visual cultures in Asia.

LYNDA NG <lynda.ng@westernsydney.edu.au> is an adjunct fellow with the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University, Australia. She is the editor of Indigenous Transnationalism: Essays on Carpentaria (2018) and has published articles on censorship and literary value, cosmopolitanism, and neoliberalism. Her postdoctoral research was on Chinese diasporic literature, and she is currently collaborating on Transnational Coetzee, an Australian Research Council Discovery Project examining the work of J. M. Coetzee.

JACQULYN TEOH <jgteoh@wisc.edu> is a PhD candidate in Literary Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is completing a dissertation titled Niche Formations in World Literary Space: Scaling Force to Form in South and Southeast Asian Literature from the 19th century to the Present. She has recently contributed an entry on Southeast Asian anti-colonialism and literature to Wiley-Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies (2016).

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