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  • Notes on Contributors

CLAIRE BARBER-STETSON (clairebarber2@gmail.com) recently defended her dissertation in literary modernism and disability studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This project extends several of the arguments made in this article, and Barber-Stetson is currently expanding it to incorporate analysis of twentieth-century art. She has also contributed to Modern Fiction Studies and serves on the editorial board of Disability Studies Quarterly.

CHRISTINA M. COLVIN (cmcolvi@emory.edu) is a visiting assistant professor of English at Emory University. She received her PhD in English from Emory in May 2014 and is at work on a manuscript that examines discourses of species in twentieth and twenty-first century American literature. Her analysis of modern taxidermy is forthcoming in the collection Mourning Animals: Rituals and Practices Surrounding Animal Death, edited by Margo DeMello.

AMY E. ELKINS (aelkins@emory.edu) received an MA from the University of Virginia and is currently a PhD candidate in English at Emory University. Her dissertation, “Crafting Modernity,” argues for a hybrid history of literature and handicraft in the twentieth century, and her research interests include interarts aesthetics and technologies, gender studies, nonviolent activism, and material culture. She has published articles in Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature and Woolf Studies Annual, and has an article on Kodak and Virginia Woolf forthcoming in the South Atlantic Review.

HEATHER FIELDING (heathervf@gmail.com) is an assistant professor of English at Purdue University North Central. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Modern Language Quarterly, Studies in the Novel, Modern Fiction Studies, and Literature Compass. She is working on a book about the role of technology in modernist novel theory.

MATT FRANKS (mfranks@bates.edu) is visiting assistant professor in English at Bates College. He specializes in British modernism, queer theory, feminism, and disability studies. His current book project, entitled “Queer Eugenics: Modernism and the Politics of Uplift,” rehistoricizes the shift from eugenics to liberal forms of biopolitics by examining how experimental feminist writers and activists in the modernist period negotiated gender, sexuality, race, and disability through the rhetorics of generational progress. His article, “Mrs. Ramsay’s Queer Generationality,” appeared in Virginia Woolf Miscellany (Fall 2012). [End Page 194]

REBECCA GAYDOS (rebecca.gaydos@berkeley.edu) is a poet and doctoral candidate in the English department at University of California, Berkeley, where she is completing a dissertation entitled, “Technologies of Expression: Poetic Inscriptions in Postwar America.” Her research interests include poetry and poetics, philosophy of technology, disability theory, and media studies. Her first book of poetry, Güera, is forthcoming from Omnidawn Publishing. The research for this article was undertaken with the support of a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation fellowship.

HILLARY GRAVENDYK (1979–2014) was an assistant professor of English at Pomona College in Claremont, CA. She published a chapbook, The Naturalist (Achiote Press, 2008) and a poetry collection, Harm (Omnidawn, 2011). She was the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the Roselyn Schneider Eisner Prize in Poetry (twice), the Emily Chamberlain Cook Prize in Poetry, and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Scholarship. At the time of her death, she was editing a book, Through, Plain: A Memoir by Larry Eigner.

ANDREW KALAIDJIAN (akalaid@gmail.com) is a PhD Candidate in English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is completing a dissertation entitled, “Places of Rest: Modernism and the Environment.” His writing has appeared in Modern Horizons Journal and the essay collection Rhys Matters (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

MICHELLE MARTIN (mi.martin@temple.edu) earned her PhD in English from Temple University in 2013. She has published articles and review-essays in JML and has presented papers at MLA, NEMLA, and other conferences on a number of cultural phenomena (such as bio-art) and contemporary writers, including William Burroughs, Samuel R. Delany, and Thomas Pynchon, among others. Currently, she is revising her dissertation on Bataille, Burroughs, Delany and bio-art; writing a review-essay on Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge for boundary 2; and serving as the administrative manager in the office of the Vice President of Student Affairs at Temple University.

VICKI TROMANHAUSER (tromanhv@newpaltz.edu) is assistant professor of English at the State University of New York, New...

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