Notes on Contributors

Andrew Blades is Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. His current research is on HIV/AIDS in American literature; his monograph, Reassessing American AIDS Literature, is in progress. He is also editing a collection for Liverpool University Press, Poetry and the Dictionary, which will be published in 2018.

Abby Goode is Assistant Professor of Early American Literature at Plymouth State University. Her work has appeared in venues such as Early American Literature and American Studies in Scandinavia. She is currently writing a book on sustainability, agriculture, and population control in nineteenth-century American literature.

Julián Jiménez Heffernan, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Universidad de Córdoba (Spain), specializes in Renaissance culture, deconstruction, and modern and contemporary fiction. His essays on fiction have appeared in Arizona Quarterly, NOVEL, Research in African Literatures, English in Africa, Contemporary Literature, Victorian Literature and Culture, ANQ, Journal of Narrative Theory and Textual Practice. He is co-editor of Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction (Palgrave, 2013). His article "'Constructed to revolve': Interest in Henry James" is forthcoming in The Henry James Review.

C. Parker Krieg received his PhD in English from the University of Oregon in 2016, and holds an MA in Literary and Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon University. His current interests lie at the edges of cultural memory studies and the environmental humanities.

Dale Pattison (Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2013) is an Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi. His research focuses on political trauma, space, and narrative in American film and literature. His current book project examines how literature generates and fosters urban imaginaries that help to shape our understandings and negotiations of the postwar American metropolis. His work has appeared in a number of academic journals and is forthcoming in Journal of Narrative Theory, American Studies, and Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction.

Spencer Tricker is a Ph.D. candidate and graduate fellow at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. He is currently at work on his dissertation, Transpacific Communities: Racialization and Literary Form, 1840–1920.