Contributors
- Contributors
Ryan Cull (ryancull@nmsu.edu) is an associate professor of English at New Mexico State University. The essay featured in this issue of MELUS is part of his book project, Unlimited Eligibility: Radical Democracy and the American Lyric. His previous work can be found in various journals, including Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature, The Emily Dickinson Journal, Paideuma, and Philosophy and Literature.
Peyton Joyce (peytonjoyce@gmail.com) is a PhD candidate in English at The George Washington University. His work touches on affect theory, disability studies, and queer theory. His dissertation project, “Affective Communities in Late 20th- and Early 21st-Century American Culture,” focuses on representations of marginal communities across a range of US localities to reveal the connections between seemingly confined narratives of economic dispossession and transnational capitalism and ask to what extent these critical affective relationships open—or mark the limits of—a space for ethics or justice.
Sue J. Kim (sue_kim@uml.edu) is a professor of English and co-director of the Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is the author of On Anger: Race, Cognition, Narrative (U of Texas P, 2013) and Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and coeditor of Rethinking Empathy through Literature (Routledge, 2014). Her essays have appeared in journals such as Modern Fiction Studies, Narrative, College Literature, and the Journal of Asian American Studies.
John Wharton Lowe (jwlowe@uga.edu) is Barbara Methvin Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Georgia. A former MELUS President, he is author or editor of seven books, including Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston’s Cosmic Comedy (U of Illinois P, 1997) and Calypso Magnolia: The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature (U of North Carolina P, 2015). He is currently writing the authorized biography of Ernest J. Gaines.
Jason R. Marley (jmarley@fmarion.edu) is an assistant professor of English at Francis Marion University, where he teaches world literature. His work has recently appeared in Studies in the Novel and is forthcoming in Criticism. He is currently working on a book project that examines linguistic antagonism and formal experimentation in the postcolonial novel. [End Page 238]
Daniel McKay’s (dem52@uclive.ac.nz) current research is sponsored by the Kone Foundation of Finland. An early version of his article in this issue was presented at the July 2014 LibEuro Conference in Brighton, which was organized by the International Academic Forum (IAFOR). Dr. McKay has articles published in Comparative American Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, Orbis Litterarum, and Common Knowledge, among other journals.
Cathryn J. Merla-Watson (cathryn.merlawatson@utrgv.edu) is an assistant professor in the Mexican American Studies Program at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, where she teaches courses on Chicana/o and Latina/o literary and cultural studies. Her research interests include love studies, affect theory, Latina/o speculative aesthetics, and queer Latina/o studies. She is currently completing two book manuscripts titled Darker Desires: Love, Coloniality, and Chican@ Aesthetics and The Apocalypse and Affective Difference in Chican@ Literature and Performance. She recently co-curated with B. V. Olguín two themed special issues on Latina/o speculative aesthetics in the journal Aztlán.
José Navarro (jnavar17@calpoly.edu) is an assistant professor of English and an affiliated faculty member of the Ethnic Studies Department at the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. He researches and writes about Chicana/o and Latina/o literature, music, and film.
John “Rio” Riofrio (jdriofrio@wm.edu) is an associate professor of Latino and Hispanic Studies at the College of William and Mary. His research interests include popular representations of US Latina/os in film, literature, and popular rhetoric; Latina/o counter-narratives and contestatory discourses; and hemispheric Latina/o identities and their impact on understanding the complexities of Latina/o presence in the Americas. The son of Ecuadorian migrants, Riofrio has published on the confluence of Latin American and Latina/o studies in MELUS and LALR. He is the author of Continental Shifts: Migration, Representation, and the Struggle for Justice in Latin(o) America (U of Texas P, 2015).
Marion Christina Rohrleitner (mcrohrleitner@utep.edu) is an associate professor of...
