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  • Notes on Contributors

Angela S. Allan is a lecturer on History & Literature at Harvard University. She received her PhD from Brown University in 2015 and is currently working on a book project about neoliberalism and American literature.

Erik Bachman is an instructor at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He has recently published articles on post-World War II Italian melodrama, Wyndham Lewis, and György Lukács. He is co-editor of the Lukács Library, for which he is also translating both volumes of Lukács’s Die Eigenart des Ästhetischen (The Specificity of the Aesthetic). “The Even Stranger Career of Jim Crow” draws on material from his current book project, Getting Off the Page: U.S. Obscenity Case Law and Literary Naturalism after Modernism.

Daniel Diez Couch is a PhD candidate in English at UCLA. He is currently completing a dissertation on the history of literary fragments in America, entitled The Imperfect Form: Literary Fragments and Politics in the Early Republic, while holding a fellowship in Early American Literature and Material Texts at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. His work has previously appeared in Early American Literature.

Marisel Moreno is an Associate Professor of US Latino/a Literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame. She was a recipient of the American Association of University Women Fellowship in 2009–2010. Her first book is titled Family Matters: Puerto Rican Women Authors on the Island and the Mainland (U. VA Press 2012). She has published articles on Latino Caribbean letters in Afro-Hispanic Review, CENTRO, The Latino(a) Research Review, and Latino Studies, among others.

Dan Walden is an assistant professor of English at Baylor University where he teaches courses in early American literature and culture. His research focuses on the interaction [End Page 291] between terrestrial and maritime culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth century Atlantic world and points to the uniqueness and utility of urban and natural coastal environments for approaching questions of national, racial, and gender identity. His recent work has appeared in Early American Literature, The Nautilus, and Southern Literary Quarterly, among others. He is currently working on a manuscript focusing on the significance of coastal spaces in early American literature.

Michael Wutz is a James Brady Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at Weber State University and the editor of Weber - The Contemporary West. He is the co-editor of Reading Matters (Cornell, 1997), the co-translator of Friedrich Kittler’s Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Stanford, 1999), and the author of Enduring Words - Narrative in a Changing Media Ecology (Alabama, 2009). His co-edited volume Conversations with W. S. Merwin appeared earlier this year from the Univ. Press of Mississippi. [End Page 292]

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