Contributors
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Amber Foster is currently enrolled as a doctoral candidate in English at Texas A&M University. Her interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century utopian and travel narratives, African American and transnational literatures, and creative writing.
Morgan Fritz is a lecturer in English at the University of Maryland, College Park. Recent and forthcoming publications concern cosmopolitan future history in H. G. Wells and the utopian use of mesmeric discourse in Sarah Grand. His book manuscript traces the relationship between utopia/utopianism and the intense period of artistic literary innovation among late-nineteenth-century British authors.
Daniel P. Jaeckle is a professor of English at the University of Houston–Victoria. Recent publications include two essays on Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed and a study of the Ranter Jacob Bauthumley’s pamphlet The Light and Dark Sides of God.
Lyman Tower Sargent is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Since retiring, he has been a fellow at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and the University of Oxford, and has been able to devote all his time to research and writing.
Morgan Shipley holds a Ph.D. in American studies from Michigan State University, where he currently teaches in religious studies, English, and the humanities as a visiting assistant professor in the College of Arts and Letters. His research focuses on the history of American religion and alternative spirituality, specifically through analyses of American cultures and subcultures, sociopolitical practices, and literature. He received his B.A. (Honors Program) in political science from DePaul University and an M.A. in the social sciences with an emphasis in the philosophy of religion and Western intellectual history from the University of Chicago. [End Page 375]
Mark A. Tabone is a lecturer in English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His scholarly interests include American, African-American, and postcolonial literatures, utopias and dystopias, critical theory, and globalization.
Kathi Weeks teaches in the Women’s Studies Program at Duke University. Her primary interests are in the fields of political theory, feminist theory, Marxist thought, and utopian studies. She is the author of Constituting Feminist Subjects (Cornell University Press, 1998) and The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries (Duke University Press, 2011) and a co-editor of The Jameson Reader (Blackwell, 2000).
Nathaniel Williams is a lecturer in the University Writing Program and Department of English at the University of California, Davis. He has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kansas and currently serves on the advisory board of the university’s Center for the Study of Science Fiction. His current book project examines the role nineteenth-century technological fiction played in developing America’s imperial and religious identity. [End Page 376]
