Contributors
- Contributors
Peter Boxall, professor of English at the University of Sussex, is the author of The Value of the Novel (Cambridge, 2015); Twenty-First Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge, 2013); Since Beckett: Contemporary Writing in the Wake of Modernism (Continuum, 2009); and Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction (Routledge, 2006). He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction, 1980–the Present (forthcoming); The Oxford History of the Novel, vol. 7, British and Irish Fiction since 1940, co-edited with Bryan Cheyette (Oxford, 2016); a special issue of Textual Practice on “Thinking Poetry” (2010); Malone Dies (Faber, 2010); 1001 Books: A Comprehensive Reference Source Chronicling the History of the Novel (Quintet, 2006); Samuel Beckett: “Waiting for Godot” and “Endgame”: A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); and Beckett/Aesthetics/Politics, part two of a double special edition of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd hui (2000). He has published forty essays on topics in modern and contemporary literature, and on the longer history of the novel. He is the recipient of a Leverhulme fellowship and of a grant to build a research network, to set up a center for the study of artificial life. He is writing a book titled “The Prosthetic Imagination.”
Scott Challener is a doctoral candidate in the department of Literatures in English at Rutgers University. He has co-authored a chapter on nineteenth-century British and American poetry and is writing a dissertation on the poetics of address in twentieth-century U.S. poetry.
John Owen Havard, assistant professor of English at Binghamton University, has published articles on Laurence Sterne, Lord Byron, and cynicism. His book Disaffected Parties: Political Estrangement and the Making of English Literature, 1760–1830 is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
Madhumita Lahiri is an assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has published articles on South Asian and southern African literature, and she is currently completing a monograph on print internationalism in the early twentieth century.
Michael LeMahieu, associate professor of English at Clemson University, is the author of Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945–1975 (Oxford, 2013) and co-editor with Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé of Wittgenstein and Modernism (Chicago, 2017). He is the recipient of an ACLS Fellowship for 2018–2019 and currently writing a book on the memory of the U.S. Civil War in literature from the civil rights movement to the present.
Angela Naimou, associate professor of English at Clemson University, is the author of Salvage Work: U.S. and Caribbean Literature Amid the Debris of Legal Personhood (Fordham, 2015). She has co-edited with Graham MacPhee a special issue of College Literature on “The Banalization of War” (Winter 2016) and edited a special forum on “Contemporary Refugee Timespaces” in Humanity (Winter 2017). She has published articles on Frantz Fanon and John Edgar Wideman, Edwidge Danticat, and refugees. Her book Salvage Work received the ASAP book prize and honorable mention for the Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough prize. She is currently writing a book titled “Refugee Futurity: Global Forms of Refuge and Refusal.”
Gayle Rogers is professor and associate chair of English at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature (Columbia, 2016) and Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History (Oxford, 2012). With Sean Latham, he is the co-author of Modernism: Evolution of an Idea (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015), which launched the New Modernisms series that they co-edit. He has published articles on global modernisms, translation theory, critical history, and Anglo- and Hispanophone literatures. His current book project is a history of the concept and practices of speculation from the late medieval era to the present.
Dan N. Sinykin is a postdoctoral fellow in English and Digital Humanities at the University of Notre Dame. He has published articles on Jumpa Lahiri and Cormac McCarthy. Current work in progress includes books titled “The Conglomerate Era: A Computational History of Literature in the Age...
