Notes on Contributors
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Aaron Colton received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia in the spring of 2018. His dissertation recontextualized and retheorized metafictionality in 20th- and 21st-century American literature as a facilitator of radical political, ethical, and social thought. In the fall of 2018 he will join the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology as Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow.
Andy Doolen is professor of English at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Territories of Empire: U.S. Writing from the Louisiana Purchase to Mexican Independence (Oxford, 2014) and Fugitive Empire: Locating Early American Imperialism (Minnesota, 2005). His essays and reviews have appeared in many journals and collections, including American Literature, American Literary History, Studies in American Fiction, Early American Literature (forthcoming), and The Cambridge History of American Women's Literature.
Jessica Horvath Williams is a PhD candidate in English at UCLA. She is currently completing a dissertation entitled Fragile Minds: The Narrative Form and Social Function of Psychological Disability in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature. Her work examines the intersection between mental illness, narrative discourse, and sociopolitical oppression in an American context from a disability studies perspective.
Jacqueline Justice is an Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of Professional Development at Bowling Green State University Firelands College. Her research interests include online learning and literature/culture of the Great Lakes. Justice publishes extensively on Great Lakes literature and is a senior editor of Inland Seas: Quarterly Journal of the Great Lakes Historical Society.
Shanna M. Salinas is the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership Assistant Professor of English at Kalamazoo College, where she teaches 20th and 21st century U.S. Literary [End Page 141] and Cultural Studies, with an emphasis on race and ethnicity and Chicanx literature. She received her B.A. in American Literature and Culture, with a minor in Chicana/o Studies, from UCLA and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from UC Santa Barbara. Her work has also appeared in Virginia Woolf and 20th-Century Women Writers (2014), and she is currently at work on a book project that examines the constitutive relationship between U.S. national identity and Chicana/o racialized identity via the site of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Mark Steven is a Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century Literature at the University of Exeter. He is the author of Red Modernism: American Poetry and the Spirit of Communism (Johns Hopkins UP) and Splatter Capital (Repeater). [End Page 142]
