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  • Contributors

Kirsten Tranter teaches creative writing at the University of Technology, Sydney. She has published scholarly articles on Edmund Spenser, seventeenth-century literature, and China Miéville, as well as two novels, The Legacy (HarperCollins Australia, 2010) and A Common Loss (HarperCollins Australia, 2012). She is at work on a third novel.

David P. Rando, associate professor of English at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, is the author of Modernist Fiction and News: Representing Experience in the Early Twentieth Century (Palgrave, 2011). He has published articles on Ulysses and animals, Gravity’s Rainbow and children, and Vineland and karma. His current projects include an article on David Foster Wallace and a book on contemporary music cultures and emergent technology.

Jessica Lewis Luck is assistant professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino. She has published or has forthcoming articles on Sylvia Plath, Harryette Mullen, Josephine Dickinson, Laura Redden Searing, and Lisa Jarnot. Her book manuscript is titled “The Poetics of Cognition: Thinking Through Experimental Poems.”

Bede Scott is assistant professor of world literature in the division of English at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has published articles on Naguib Mahfouz, Vibhuti Narain Rai, and Saadat Hasan Manto and is writing a book on emotion in colonial and postcolonial literature.

Bimbisar Irom is visiting assistant professor of English at Washington Sate University-Pullman. He publishes in the fields of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and is completing a book on how novels narrate the transition from the Old Left to the New Left and to cultural studies in the U.S.

Ann Marie Adams is professor of English at Morehead State University, Kentucky. She is the author of articles on modern and contemporary British literature, postcolonial women’s fiction, film, and the gothic.

Alice Brittan, assistant professor of English at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, has published articles on André Brink, Peter Carey, Nadine Gordimer, David Malouf, J. M. Coetzee, and Michael Ondaatje. She is finishing a book called “Empty-Handed: On Gifts and Grace.”

Jill Didur, associate professor and chair of English at Concordia University, Montreal, is the author of Unsettling Partition: Literature, Gender, Memory (University of Toronto, 2006) and co-editor of two special issues, Revisiting the Subaltern in the New Empire (Cultural Studies 2003) and Critical Posthumanism (Cultural [End Page 606] Critique 2003). Her current book project is titled “Gardenworthy: Plant Hunting in South Asian Literature and Travel Writing.”

Sean McCann, professor of English at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, is the author of A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government (Princeton, 2008).

Anahid Nersessian is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. She has published articles on British romanticism and on political and aesthetic philosophy. She is at work on two book manuscripts, “Political Romance” and “The Calamity [End Page 607]

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