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  • Contributors

heather e. holcombe is Lecturer at the University of Minnesota and Instructor at Anoka-Ramsey Community College. Her scholarship focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first century American literature; her book project, Made in America: Fictions of Genetic Industry, explores the simultaneous rise of mass production and genetic science as depicted in the contemporary American historical novel. She is currently working on a collection of essays that explores gender, disability, and the language and experience of medical diagnosis.

mollie godfrey is Assistant Professor of English at James Madison University, specializing in African American literature. She is co-editor of Neo-Passing: Performing Identity after Jim Crow (University of Illinois Press, 2018), and is currently working on a book project on black humanisms in segregation-era black women’s literature. Articles broadly related to this topic have appeared in MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, MELUS, and CLA Journal.

stephen hong sohn is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Racial Asymmetries: Asian American Fictional Worlds (New York University Press, 2014) and Inscrutable Belongings: Queer Asian North American Fiction (Stanford University Press, 2018).

carlo martinez is professor of American literature at the Università “Gabriele d’Annunzio,” Chieti-Pescara, Italy. Author of two books and several essays and articles, he has worked mostly on nineteenth-century US literature. He is currently working on a book project on Poe, the penny press, and the US literary field.

christopher s. lewis is Assistant Professor of English at Western Kentucky University. His research on African American literature and queer studies can be found in recent and forthcoming issues of Rocky Mountain Review, African American Review, and College Literature. [End Page 143]

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