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  • Contributors

michael alexander chaney is the author of Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative (Indiana Univ. Press, 2008), the editor of Graphic Subjects: Critical Essays on Autobiography and Graphic Novels (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2010), and, most recently, author of Reading Lessons in Seeing: Mirrors, Masks, and Mazes in the Autobiographical Graphic Novel (Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2017). His essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from Biography, American Literature, Callaloo, ESQ, and College Literature. He is an Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College as well as the Chair of the African and African American Studies Program.

laurel recker is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University in Ohio. Her current book project, Chronotopias: The Politics of Time and Space in Atlantic Modernisms, examines how modernist literatures and films model time and memory.

david zimmerman is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction (University of North Carolina Press, 2006). His current book project studies how U.S. writers and reformers before the Civil War developed and deployed the concept of complicity.

joel duncan works in the Unit for Academic Language at the University of Gothenburg. He recently received his PhD in English from the University of Notre Dame.

birgit spengler is associate professor of American Studies at the University of Bonn, Germany. Her publications include Vision, Gender, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing, 1860–1900 and Literary Spinoffs: Rewriting the Classics—Re-Imagining the Community. Her current research project focuses on the articulation of states of exception, bare life, and precarious being in contemporary literature and media. [End Page 155]

ashleigh hardin is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing at the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, IN. Her dissertation, The Age of Intervention: Addiction, Narrative, and Culture during the War on Drugs examines narratives of addiction and recovery in late 20th century American culture. [End Page 156]

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