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  • Contributors

IAIN BERNHOFT <ibernhof@risd.edu> teaches literature and writing at the Rhode Island School of Design. His current research focuses on shifting notions of authenticity and self-making in American culture. His work has also appeared in the Cormac McCarthy Journal.

ADRIENNE BROWN <adrienne@uchicago.edu> is the author of The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race (2017) and the coeditor with Valerie Smith of Race and Real Estate (2015). She is working on a book charting how the emergence of the housing market in the twentieth century reshaped forms of perception, genres of narrative, and categories of race. She teaches in the Department of English at the University of Chicago.

CHRIS CLARKE <cfc1e17@soton.ac.uk> teaches in the Department of English at the University of Southampton. His book chapter on the experimental novels of Eva Figes is forthcoming in British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s. His current research examines the treatment of failure in postwar British experimental fiction.

JOSEPH DARDA <j.darda@tcu.edu> is an assistant professor of English and Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies at Texas Christian University. His articles have appeared in such journals as American Quarterly, American Literature, and Contemporary Literature. He is currently working on a book project titled Empire of Defense: Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War.

DEREK RYAN <d.j.ryan@kent.ac.uk> is Senior Lecturer in Modernist Literature at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of Animal Theory: A Critical Introduction (2015) and Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory: Sex, Animal, Life (2013). His latest book, coedited with Stephen Ross, is The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group (2018), and he is currently editing a new scholarly edition of Woolf's Flush: A Biography for Cambridge University Press.

BEN TRAN <ben.tran@vanderbilt.edu> is an assistant professor of Asian Studies and English at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Post-Mandarin: Masculinity and Aesthetic Modernity in Colonial Vietnam. He is now working on a manuscript that examines literary dubbing.

ERIC VÁZQUEZ <vazquez@dickinson.edu> is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of American Studies at Dickinson College. His book project, States of Defeat: U.S. Imaginaries of Central America, is an intellectual history of Americans caught up in Central America's insurrectionary wars of the 1980s and 1990s. These failed uprisings, States of Defeat argues, provoked feelings of disappointment in US authors and intellectuals as well as a retreat into speculations on state legitimacy and governmental power. [End Page 208]

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