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  • Contributors

Nancy Armstrong is Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Professor of English at Duke University and editor of the journal Novel: A Forum on Fiction. Her books include Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel (Oxford, 1987), The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life (with Leonard Tennenhouse; California, 1992), Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism (Harvard, 1999), and How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism, 1719–1900 (Columbia, 2005). Most recently, she is completing a book titled “The Conversion Effect: Early American Aspects of the Novel” with Leonard Tennenhouse for the University of Pennsylvania Press and writing essays toward a new book on contemporary fiction.

Andrew Goldstone, assistant professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, has published articles on Wallace Stevens, on the figure of the servant, and on what thirteen thousand scholars could tell us about the history of literary studies. He is the author of Fictions of Autonomy: Modernism from Wilde to de Man (Oxford, 2013). His current book project is titled “Wastes of Time: Genre and the Literary Field since 1890.”

Michael Leong is a faculty member at Goddard College and the author of scholarly articles on conceptual poetry and documentary poetry. He is a widely published poet and essayist.

Stephen Hock is associate professor of English at Virginia Wesleyan College. He is co-editor, with Jeremy Braddock, of Directed by Allen Smithee (Minnesota, 2001). He has published essays on John Dos Passos, Michael Chabon, and “Allen Smithee.”

Leif Sorensen, assistant professor of English at Colorado State University, has published articles on modern and contemporary multiethnic literature and on science fiction. He is completing a book manuscript titled “Alternative Modernisms” which provides a new account of the emergence of multiethnic literature in the U.S.

Rachel Greenwald Smith, assistant professor of English at Saint Louis University, has published articles on ecocriticism, contemporary literary form, and aesthetics and politics. Her book Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in March 2015.

Sarah Brouillette is associate professor of English at Carleton University, in Ottawa, Ontario. She is the author of Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace (Palgrave, 2007) and Literature and the Creative Economy (Stanford, 2014). Her work in progress is a book manuscript titled “UNESCO and the Book.” She is the recipient of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant for 2013–17. [End Page 610]

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