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MFS publishes scholarly essays that analyze the important aesthetic, cultural, political, and environmental developments currently shaping today’s academic and public conversations. A leading international literature and humanities journal, MFS focuses on the various modalities and uses of fiction in the broadest sense of the term—publishing material designed to speak to a wide audience of scholars, public intellectuals, and cultural practitioners working across diverse fields, regions, and venues. Now in its sixty-eighth year, MFS is published by Johns Hopkins University Press and is available online at Project MUSE.
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Volume 62, Number 2, Summer 2016Editorial Board
EDITOR
John N. Duvall
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Robert P. Marzec
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS
Leah Pennywark
Shaun Clarkson
Marc Diefenderfer
PURDUE ADVISORY BOARD
Marlo Denice David
Lance Duerfahrd
Wendy Flory
Sandor Goodhart
Shaun F. D. Hughes
Robert Paul Lamb
Maren Linett
Alfred J. López
Jennifer Freeman Marshall
Daniel Morris
Bill V. Mullen
Venetria K. Patton
Nancy J. Peterson
Arkady Plotnitsky
Charles Ross
Aparajita Sagar
James Robert Saunders
Patrocinio Schweickart
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Paul B. Armstrong
Brown UniversityHerman Beavers
University of PennsylvaniaLauren Berlant
University of ChicagoMichael Bérubé
Pennsylvania State UniversityChris Bongie
Queen’s UniversityStephen J. Burn
University of GlasgowMarianne DeKoven
Rutgers UniversityMarc Dolan
City University of New YorkLaura Doyle
University of MassachusettsJonathan Eburne
Pennsylvania State UniversityAnne Fernald
Fordham UniversityEllen G. Friedman
College of New JerseyDonald Goellnicht
McMaster UniversityBarbara Harlow
University of Texas, AustinDavid Herman
Durham UniversityScott Herring
Indiana UniversityPeter Kalliney
University of KentuckyRandall Knoper
University of MassachusettsMartin Kreiswirth
McGill UniversityJohn T. Matthews
Boston UniversityDeborah E. McDowell
University of VirginiaPatrick McGee
Louisiana State UniversityMark McGurl
Stanford UniversityDavid McWhirter
Texas A & M UniversityRichard C. Moreland
Louisiana State UniversityMichael Valdez Moses
Duke UniversityAlan Nadel
University of KentuckyPatrick O’Donnell
Michigan State UniversityStacey Olster
SUNY, Stony BrookRobert Dale Parker
University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignAdam Parkes
University of GeorgiaRajagopalan Radhakrishnan
University of California, IrvineCatherine Rainwater
St. Edward’s UniversityJohn Paul Riquelme
Boston UniversityJudith Roof
Rice UniversityRamón Saldívar
Stanford UniversityUrmila Seshagiri
University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleSiobhan Somerville
University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignHortense J. Spillers
Vanderbilt UniversitySusan Strehle
SUNY, BinghamtonJohn J. Su
Marquette UniversityJay Watson
University of MississippiPhillip Wegner
University of FloridaSteven Weisenburger
Southern Methodist University