Contributors
- Contributors
austin bailey . . .
is a PhD candidate in English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He teaches courses in American literature and composition at Hunter College (CUNY) and at New Jersey City University. Currently, he is serving as a Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow at Hunter College. This article comes from his dissertation, “This New Yet Approachable Philosophy: Emerson, Pragmatism, and Neopragmatism,” which argues that, beginning with his sermon “The Lord’s Supper,” Emerson forges a philosophical path that is both antifoundational and antiskeptical. In doing so, Emerson anticipates the pragmatist and neopragmatist traditions—specifically, neopragmatists like Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, and Cornel West. Another chapter from this project, “‘The World is Full’: Emerson, Pluralism, and the ‘Nominalist and Realist,’” was published as an article in The Pluralist.
j. laurence cohen . . .
is a Mellon Graduate Teaching Fellow at Morehouse College and a PhD candidate in English at Emory University. His dissertation, “Echoes of Exodus: Biblical Typology and Racial Solidarity in African American Literature, 1829–1962,” asks how the story of Moses evolved from a narrative of liberation into a compelling way for male leaders to sanctify their power. He traces the evolution of the Exodus narrative through novels, newspapers, and speeches to demonstrate how gender politics shaped the possibilities and risks of racial solidarity in African American liberation movements from abolitionism to black nationalism. His work has been [End Page 716] published in the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies.
kohei furuya . . .
is an associate professor of English at Kanagawa University in Yokohama, Japan, where he teaches a variety of subjects, including literature, academic writing, and English language. He has published essays in both English and Japanese on American literature and film. His current book project examines the influences of foreign languages and world literatures on the making of mid-nineteenth-century US national literature and focuses on the works of Emerson, Fuller, Hawthorne, and Melville, among others.
russell sbriglia . . .
is an assistant professor of English at Seton Hall University, where he teaches courses in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature and culture as well as literary and critical theory. His articles have appeared in Arizona Quarterly, Continental Thought & Theory, Poe Studies, and Postmodern Culture. He is the author of American Romanticism and the Materiality of Transcendence: Five Hegelian Variations (Northwestern UP, forthcoming); editor of Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Žižek (Duke UP, 2017); and coeditor, with Slavoj Žižek, of Subject Lessons: Hegel, Lacan, and the Future of Materialism (Northwestern UP, forthcoming). [End Page 717]
