Contributors
- Contributors
Hanna Andrews (hanna.andrews@unlv.edu) teaches in the English Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her research interests and teaching focus on twentieth- and twenty-first-century American poetry and poetics, the classical and contemporary epic form, and developmental writing. She is the author of a collection of poems, Slope Move (Coconut Books, 2013), and the cofounding editor of Switchback Books, now in its twelfth year of publishing innovative poetry by women and woman-identified writers.
Cynthia Callahan (Callahan.138@osu.edu) is associate professor of English at The Ohio State University at Mansfield, where she teaches American and multi-ethnic American literatures, and is the national cochair of the Alliance for the Study of Adoption & Culture. She is the author of Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature (U of Michigan P, 2010) and articles on race and adoption in American literature. Her current book project focuses on African American adoptive families in post-World War II American literature.
Ryan Carr (ryan.carr@qc.cuny.edu) teaches American literature at Queens College, City University of New York. His research focuses on the relationship of American literature to the law of free speech and on the history of indigenous American literatures in the nineteenth century. His writing has appeared in J19 and in Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas (Yale UP, 2018).
Yi-Ting Chang (ct00102036@gmail.com) is a PhD student in English and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests include Asian/American studies, environmental humanities, and decolonial feminisms. Her article, “‘I see it feelingly’: Environmental Identities in Lila, Train Dreams and Child of God,” is forthcoming in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.
Travis Franks (tbfranks@asu.edu) is a doctoral candidate at Arizona State University. In 2017, he completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Queensland, Australia. His work appears in Mississippi Quarterly and the anthology Teaching with Tension (Northwestern UP, 2019). He is a founding member of the revolving ensemble band known as New Heroes of the Old War.
Sean Gerrity (sgerrity@hostos.cuny.edu) is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Hostos Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY). His research on marronage, slavery, freedom, and literature in the antebellum United States and Atlantic world has been supported by a Lillian Gary Taylor Fellowship in American Literature at the University of Virginia, a Mellon-Reese Fellowship at the Virginia Historical Society, and the Mellon Committee on Globalization and Social Change at The Graduate Center, CUNY. His reviews have appeared in Journal of the Early Republic, Journal of American Studies, and JMMLA. He is currently at work on his first book project, A Canada in the South: Marronage and the Geography of Fugitive Freedom in Antebellum American Literature.
Lesley Ginsberg (lginsber@uccs.edu) is associate professor of English at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, where she served as chair of the Department of English from 2011–16. With Monika M. Elbert, she coedited Romantic Education in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: National and Transatlantic Contexts (Routledge, 2015). Her chapter, “Race and Romantic Pedagogies in the Works of Lydia Maria Child,” appears in that book.
Renee Hudson (renee.hudson@gmail.com) is an assistant professor of Latina/o literature in the English department and an affiliated faculty member in the Latino Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research interests include form, revolution, and hemispheric studies. A former University of California Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Diego, she has published in Modern Fiction Studies and is currently at work on a project that considers the hemispheric role of revolution in shaping US literature.
Jarret Keene (jarret.keene@unlv.edu) teaches ancient literature and creative writing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has authored poetry collections, an underground travel guide, and a rock band biography, The Killers: Destiny Is Calling Me (Manic D P, 2006), and has coedited the gritty fiction anthologies Las Vegas Noir (Akashic Books, 2008) and Dead Neon: Tales of Near-Future Las Vegas (U of Nevada P, 2010). He covers the city’s...
