Contriabutor
- Contributors
Tammy Amiel Houser is assistant professor of Literature, Language, and the Arts at The Open University of Israel. She is the author of Critical Perspectives on the Coming-of-Age Novel: George Eliot's Feminist Challenge (Hebrew). She has published articles on Margaret Atwood, George Eliot, David Grossman, Emmanuel Levinas, and Ian McEwan. She is currently writing a book titled "The Moral Imaginary of Post-Recession Neoliberalism: Tracing the Role of Empathy in Contemporary Fiction."
Leslie Bow, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is the author of "Partly Colored": Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South (New York, 2010) and Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion: Feminism, Sexual Politics, Asian American Women's Literature (Princeton, 2001). She has published articles on Asian American literature, race fetishism, stereotyping, comparative racialization, segregation, southern history, race and tenure, and the status of the profession. Her current works in progress include a monograph, "Racist Love: Asian Americans and the Pleasures of Fantasy," and The Oxford Handbook of Twentieth-Century American Literature, co-edited with Russ Castronovo.
Kimberly Chabot Davis, associate professor of English at Bridgewater State University, is the author of Beyond the White Negro: Empathy and Anti-Racist Reading (Illinois, 2014) and Postmodern Texts and Emotional Audiences (Purdue, 2007). She has published articles on white hip-hop artists and writers, Toni Morrison and "postmodern blackness," and race and irony in film. Her current work focuses on contemporary African American satire and teaching racial satire.
Gloria Fisk, associate professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York, has published articles on world literature, postcolonial theory, and the global novel. Her first book is Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature (Columbia, 2018), and her current work theorizes the cultural politics of prolepsis.
Len Gutkin is a junior fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows. He has published articles on decadence, aestheticism, noir, and modernism. He is currently writing books on the dandy in British and American fiction, and on camp and irony from Henry James to Lars von Trier.
Ursula McTaggart, associate professor of English at Wilmington College, is the author of Guerrillas in the Industrial Jungle: Radicalism's Primitive and Industrial Rhetoric (New York, 2012). Her current works in process include essays on James McBride and Edward Abbey, and on literary strategies for prompting political action. [End Page 170]
Anne Shea is assistant professor of Writing and Literature at California College of the Arts. She has published essays on multicultural literature and social justice, whiteness and female authorship, immigration law and farmworker testimony, and contemporary politically engaged art. She is currently working on a book on documentary poetry and neoliberal violence and, with Cor nelia Grabner and Ilka Kressner, an edited collection of essays on poetry and the twenty-first-century neoliberal city. [End Page 171]
