Contributors
- Contributors
Benjamin Mangrum, University of Michigan Society of Fellows and assistant professor of English, is the author of Land of Tomorrow: Postwar Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism (Oxford, 2018). He has published articles on the digital humanities, post–1945 environmental thought, political theory, and American academic philosophy. He is currently writing a book on the uses of tragedy in twentieth-century prose fiction and philosophy.
Melissa Parrish is a doctoral candidate in the department of English at Rutgers University and the recipient of a Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences Mellon dissertation completion fellowship. She has co-authored a chapter on nineteenth-century British and American poetry and is currently working on an article, "Denise Levertov's 'Histrionics': Witnessing War without George Oppen," and her dissertation, "Emergency Poetics in the American Present."
Aaron DeRosa is associate professor of English at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. His work has appeared in Arizona Quarterly; Studies in the Novel; LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory; MFS: Modern Fiction Studies; and the LA Review of Books. He recently co-edited a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies with Stacey Peebles titled "Enduring Operations: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq." He is working on a book-length manuscript titled "This Book Is Not for Sale: Advertising and American Fiction since 1945."
Rebecca Roach, lecturer in contemporary literature at the University of Birmingham, is the author of Literature and the Rise of the Interview (Oxford, 2018). She is the editor of Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity, co-edited with David Bradshaw and Laura Marcus (Oxford, 2016) and of a special issue of Biography titled "Interviewing as Creative Practice," co-edited with Anneleen Masschelein (2018). She has published articles on interviews in Everyman; J. M. Coetzee's computing; interviewing in literature across the twentieth century; interviewing as a critical methodology; and social media publics. She is the recipient of an Andrew Mellon Fellowship at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin (2016). Her research also benefitted from funding as part of a project titled "Eco-Media: The Impact of New Media on Forms and Practices of Self-Presentation," which received a European Research Council Grant [No. 340331]. She is currently writing a monograph titled "Machine Talk: Literature, Computing, and Conversation."
Angela Hume, assistant professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Morris, is the author of a book of poetry titled Middle Time (Omnidawn, 2016). She is the editor of Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field, co-edited with Gillian Osborne (Iowa, 2018) and has published articles on queer poetics and contemporary environmental justice poetry. She is writing a monograph titled "Lyric Interiors: The Ecological Poetics of Women's Health Writing and Activism, 1970s–Present."
Dominic Davies, lecturer in English at City, University of London, is the author of Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880–1930 (Peter Lang, 2017) and Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives (Routledge, 2019). He is the editor of Fighting Words: Fifteen Books That Shaped the Postcolonial World, co-edited with Erica Lombard and Benjamin Mountford (Peter Lang, 2017) and of Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructures, Literature, and Culture, co-edited with Elleke Boehmer (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). He has published several articles and book chapters relating to similar topics and is currently editing a collection titled "Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage."
