Contributors
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Alison Gibbons, senior lecturer in English at De Montfort University, Leicester, is the author of Multimodality, Cognition, and Experimental Literature (Routledge, 2012). She has co-edited The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature (2012), as well as a collection of critical essays on the work of Mark Z. Danielewski, in Manchester University Press’s Contemporary American and Canadian Writers series (2011). The working title of her second monograph is “Metamodernist Fiction and the Multimodal Novel.”
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, professor emerita at Temple University, is the author of Purple Passages: Pound, Eliot, Zukofsky, Olson, Creeley, and the Ends of Patriarchal Poetry (Iowa, 2012); Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work (Alabama, 2006); Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934 (Cambridge, 2001); The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice (1990); H.D.: The Career of That Stuggle (Indiana, 1986); and Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers (Indiana, 1985). In addition, she has published six volumes of her long poem Drafts (1986–2013).
Mandy Bloomfield, lecturer in English at the University of Plymouth, Devon, is the author of Archaeopoetics: Writing as Historical Enquiry, forthcoming from the University of Alabama Press in 2015. She has published articles on Maggie O’Sullivan’s historicist poetry, ecological thinking and British poetry, and sustainability and poetics. Her current project is a book on ecopoetics.
Andrew Gaedtke, assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has published articles on modern and contemporary literature and engagements between literature and the mind sciences. He is completing a book manuscript titled “The Machinery of Madness: Psychosis, Technology, and Twentieth-Century Narrative.”
Elda Maria Román is assistant professor of English at the University of Southern California. Her work in progress is a book manuscript on representations of race and upward mobility in Chicana/o and black cultural production.
Benjamin Schreier is interim director of the Jewish studies program at The Pennsylvania State University, where he is the Lea P. and Malvin E. Bank Early Career Professor of English and Jewish Studies. He is the author of The Power of Negative Thinking: Cynicism and the History of Modern American Literature (Virginia, 2009) and The Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History, forthcoming from New York University Press. He edited the collection Studies in Irreversibility: Texts and Contexts (Cambridge Scholars, 2007). His current work is on the use and abuse of a concept of identity for literary study. [End Page 811]
Ulka Anjaria, associate professor of English at Brandeis University, is the author of Realism in the Twentieth-Century Indian Novel: Colonial Difference and Literary Form (Cambridge, 2012). She has also published several articles and reviews on South Asian literature and film. She is currently working on a book on contemporary literature and film and their relationship to new political imaginaries in India.
Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, associate professor of English at Pomona College, is the author of Racial Things, Racial Forms: Objecthood in Avant-Garde Asian American Poetry (Iowa, 2012). He has published articles on Asian American literature and visual culture and on Korean cinema. His current projects are two book manuscripts: “Neoliberal Forms: Korea’s IMF Cinema and the End of the American Century” and “Breakfast at Kuniyoshi’s: A Degenerative Genealogy of Postracial Racial Form.”
Steven Belletto, associate professor of English and chair of American studies at Lafayette College, 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). He is currently editing “The Cambridge Companion to the Beats.” [End Page 812]
