Contributors
- Contributors
Thomas F. Anderson (tanders6@nd.edu) is the William M. Scholl Professor of Latin American Literature and chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame. He is a specialist in the literature, history, and cultures of the Hispanic Caribbean. He is the author of Everything in Its Place: The Life and Works of Virgilio Piñera (Bucknell University Press, 2006) and Carnival and National Identity in the Poetry of Afrocubanismo (University Press of Florida, 2011). He recently completed an edited volume of the correspondence of Virgilio Piñera and is presently working on a book that focuses on depictions of the US Civil Rights Movement in Cuban poetry.
Carolyn Dekker (cdekker@umich.edu) is a visiting assistant professor of environmental studies at Bates College. She recently received her PhD in English at the University of Michigan with a dissertation on the atomic bomb in American literature. She is at work on an edition of Jean Toomer’s A Drama of the Southwest. Her essay on Leslie Marmon Silko’s early novel drafts is forthcoming in a collection of critical essays.
Marvin Campbell (mac3hq@virginia.edu) is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Virginia. His work focuses on transnational American poetics and poetries refracted through Key West and the Global South, inflected in the work of Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, and Jean Toomer.
George Fragopoulos (gfragopoulos@qcc.cuny.edu) is assistant professor of English at Queensborough Community College, CUNY. His scholarly interests include twentieth-century and contemporary American poetry, aesthetics, and the intersection of politics and art. He has published an essay in the collection Reading Duncan Reading: Robert Duncan and the Poetics of Derivation (University of Iowa Press, 2012), and his translations from the Greek can be found in Manolis Anagnostakis: Poetry and Politics, Silence and Agency in Post-War Greece (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012) and the journal Words Without Borders. His archival research on Laura (Riding) Jackson is forthcoming in PMLA. He is currently working on two book-length projects: the first is a volume of selected letters of (Riding) Jackson, and the second, tentatively titled The [End Page 219] Aesthetics of Silence, is a consideration of aesthetic forms and theories of autonomy in contemporary art and literature.
Keith Michael Green (keigreen@camden.rutgers.edu) is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University, Camden. His research and teaching interests include narratives of black captivity, Afro- / Native American relations, and disability studies. His forthcoming book from the University of Alabama Press, Bound to Respect: Antebellum Narratives of African American Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage: 1816-1861, explores neglected forms of captivity blacks experienced and recounted in the nineteenth century. The manuscript has been awarded the press’s Elizabeth Agee Prize in recognition of its “outstanding scholarship in the field of American literary studies.”
Nancy Kang (nkang@ubalt.edu) is an assistant professor of multicultural and diaspora literatures at the University of Baltimore. Her work has appeared in African American Review, Canadian Literature, Callaloo, and Latino Studies. She coedited The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott (Lexington Books, 2013) and will coauthor a forthcoming monograph on Dominican American poet Rhina P. Espaillat.
Mariam B. Lam (mariam.lam@ucr.edu) is an associate professor of comparative literature, media & cultural studies, cooperating faculty in ethnic studies, and director of the Southeast Asian Studies Research Program at the University of California, Riverside. She coedited Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora (University of Washington Press, 2014), a Southeast Asian American studies special issue of the journal positions: asia critiques (2013), and Vietnamese Americans: Lessons in American History (2001, 2004). She is founding coeditor of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies and her monograph, Not Coming to Terms: Viet Nam, Archival Trauma and Strategic Affect (forthcoming from Duke University Press), analyzes diaspora, the postcolony, postsocialism, and disciplinarity within and across Viet Nam, France, and the United States.
Kristen Lillvis (lillvis@marshall.edu) is an assistant professor of English at Marshall University. She has published on posthumanism and black identity in Critique and in the edited collections Feminist and Critical Perspectives on Caribbean...
