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  • Contributors

Lynn Keller is Martha Meier Renk Bascom Professor of Poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Re-making It New: Contemporary American Poetry and the Modernist Tradition (Cambridge, 1987), Forms of Expansion: Recent Long Poems by Women (Chicago, 1997), and Thinking Poetry: Readings in Contemporary Women's Exploratory Poetics (Iowa, 2010). Her current project is an ecocritical study of recent experimental North American poetry.

Steel Wagstaff is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Wisconsin Madison, the senior assistant director of the freshman writing program, and the 2010 recipient of a campus-wide innovation in teaching award. His dissertation concerns environmental criticism and the objectivist poets. His interview with Mark Nowak appeared in Contemporary Literature in 2010.

Sadia Abbas, assistant professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark, has published articles on Robert Southwell and the poetics, politics, and theology of Catholicism under Elizabeth I; the role of Jewish converts to Islam in Pakistani politics; and the role of the European Reformation in contemporary Muslim thought. She is writing a book tentatively titled, "At Freedom's Limit: Islam and the Postcolonial Predicament."

Stephanie Pocock Boeninger, assistant professor of English at Providence College in Rhode Island, has published articles on Dion Boucicault, Caryl Churchill, Martin McDonagh, J. M. Synge, and W. B. Yeats. Her book project is titled "'Submarine Roots': The Drowned Body in Irish and Caribbean Literature."

Lisa Swanstrom is assistant professor of English at Florida Atlantic University. She has published articles on science fiction, cyberpunk, dystopian literature, and environmentalism and is writing a book about digital art, electronic literature, and environmental practice. She is co-editor, with Jessica Pressman, of a special issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly on the topic of the literary.

Elena Machado Sáez is associate professor of English at Florida Atlantic University. She is co-author, with Raphael Dalleo, of The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature (Palgrave, 2007). She has published several articles and book reviews on the Caribbean diaspora and U.S. Latino literatures.

David L. Pike is professor of literature at American University in Washington, D.C. His most recent books include Subterranean Cities: The World beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945 (Cornell, 2005), Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds [End Page 593] of Modern Urban Culture, 1800-2001 (Cornell, 2007), and forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press in 2012, Canadian Cinema since the 1980s: At the Heart of the World.

Aarthi Vadde, assistant professor of English at Duke University, has published articles on cosmopolitanism and environmentalism in the works of Arundhati Roy and on rethinking postcolonial politics in J. M. Coetzee. Her book project, "Genres of Collectivity," concerns the intersection of the modernist novel and transnational thought.

Sarah Graham, lecturer in American literature at the University of Leicester, is the author of a study of J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (Continuum, 2007) and of articles on the poetry of H.D. and on Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex. She is general editor for Continuum's Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction series and is editing a collection on adolescence in contemporary American fiction. Her book on Salinger's short fiction is forthcoming from Continuum.

Norman Finkelstein is professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. His most recent books are On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry (Iowa, 2010) and two volumes of poetry, Scribe (Dos Madres, 2009) and Inside the Ghost Factory (Marsh Hawk, 2010). [End Page 594]

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