Contributors
- Contributors
Matthew Hart, assistant professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, is the author of Nations of Nothing but Poetry: Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing (Oxford, 2010). An associate editor at Contemporary Literature, he co-edited the Winter 2009 special issue Contemporary Literature and the State. He is a founding co-editor of Literature Now, a book series from Columbia University Press. His work in progress is a book on contemporary fiction and the visual arts, mostly from Britain.
Aaron Jaffe, professor of English at the University of Louisville, is the author of Modernism and the Culture of Celebrity (Cambridge, 2005) and The Way Things Go: An Essay on the Matter of Second Modernism (Minnesota, forthcoming in 2014). He has co-edited The Year’s Work in Lebowski Studies (Indiana, 2009), Modernist Star Maps (Ashgate, 2010), and The Year’s Work at the Zombie Research Center (Indiana, forthcoming in 2014).
Monika Kaup, associate professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle, is the author of Rewriting North American Borders in Chicano and Chicana Narrative (Lang, 2001) and Neobaroque in the Americas: Alternative Modernities in Literature, Visual Art, and Film (Virginia, 2012). She co-edited Mixing Race, Mixing Culture: Inter-American Literary Dialogues (Texas, 2002) and Baroque New Worlds: Representation, Transculturation, Counterconquest (Duke, 2010). Her book manuscript in progress is titled “Post-Poststructuralism: New Realisms in Contemporary Theory and Post-Apocalyptic Narrative.”
Neal Alexander, lecturer in twentieth-century literature at Aberystwyth University, is the author of Ciaran Carson: Space, Place, Writing (Liverpool, 2010) and co-editor of Poetry and Geography: Space and Place in Postwar Poetry (Liverpool, 2013) and Regional Modernisms (Edinburgh, 2013). He is writing a book on contemporary literary geographies.
Paul Stephens is a lecturer in American studies at Columbia University. He is the author of The Poetics of Information Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing (Minnesota, forthcoming in 2014).
Ania Spyra, assistant professor of English at Butler University, has published articles on feminist contestations of cosmopolitanism, multilingualism, and transnationalism and nodal cities. Her book manuscript is titled “Cosmopoetics: Multilingual Experiments in Transnational Literature.”
Claire Seiler, assistant professor of English at Dickinson College, has published on Elizabeth Bishop and William Carlos Williams and is at work on a literary history of the transatlantic mid twentieth century titled “Midcentury Suspension.” [End Page 872]
Philip Metres, professor of English at John Carroll University, is the author of Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941 (Iowa, 2007). He has also published two volumes of poetry. He is the recipient of a 2013 NEA fellowship and a 2014 Creative Workforce Fellowship.
Sarah Winter is professor of English and comparative literary and cultural studies at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Freud and the Institution of Psychoanalytic Knowledge (Stanford 1999) and The Pleasures of Memory: Learning to Read with Charles Dickens (Fordham, 2011). Her current book project is titled “The Novel, Habeas Corpus, and Human Rights.”
Steven Belletto is associate professor of English and chair of the American studies program at Lafayette College and an associate editor for American fiction at Contemporary Literature. He is the author of No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives (Oxford, 2012) and co-editor of American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War: A Critical Reassessment (Iowa, 2012).
Mitchum Huehls, associate adjunct professor of English at UCLA, is the author of Qualified Hope: A Postmodern Politics of Time (Ohio State, 2009). He is at work on a book manuscript titled “After Critique: Twenty-First-Century Fiction in a Neoliberal Age.” [End Page 873]
