Contributors
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Torsa Ghosal is Assistant Professor in post-45 English literature at California State University, Sacramento. Her research focuses on the formal strategies used to represent cognition in post-1980s literature and the nature of aesthetic experiences offered by multimodal narratives. Her writings on these topics have been published or are forthcoming in Poetics Today, Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies, and Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus. She has published on films and comics in Latinos and Narrative Media (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013), Comics Studies Here and Now (Routledge, 2018), and Oxford Handbook of Comics (2019). She is also the author of an experimental novel, Open Couplets (New Delhi: Yoda Press, 2017).
Nathaniel Greenberg is Assistant Professor and Head of the Arabic Program at George Mason University. His books include: How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring: The Politics of Narrative in Tunisia and Egypt (EUP, 2019), Islamists of the Maghreb with Jeffry R. Halverson (Routledge, 2018), and The Aesthetic of Revolution in the Film and Literature of Naguib Mahfouz 1952–1967 (Lexington, 2014).
Kathryn Hume started as a medievalist in Old English, Middle English, and Old Norse, but has become a specialist in contemporary fiction. Her books include Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature, Pynchon’s Mythography: An Approach to Gravity’s Rainbow, Calvino’s Fictions: Cogito and Cosmos, American Dream, American Nightmare: Fiction since 1960, and Aggressive Fictions: Reading the Contemporary American Novel. Contemporary authors she has published on include Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Coover, Italo Calvino, A. C. Clarke, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, Salman Rushdie, William Burroughs, Kathy Acker, Richard Brautigan, William Kennedy, John Edgar Wideman, Gerald Vizenor, Neil Gaiman, and Richard Powers. She has also written Surviving your Academic Job Hunt: Advice for Humanities PhDs.
Colleen Morrissey holds a PhD from Ohio State University and an MA from the University of Kansas. A winner of the O. Henry Prize, her academic, journalistic, and creative writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, Bitch, Alaska Quarterly Review, and other scholarly monographs and literary journals. She currently teaches at the Columbus College of Art and Design.
Leslie S. Simon is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at Utah Valley University. She has published in Dickens Quarterly, Dickens Studies Annual, and Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and is completing a book on Dickens, heaps, and nineteenth-century mathematics.
Rosetta Young is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at UC-Berkeley. She is completing a dissertation on how the Anglo-American novel invented the sociocultural meaning of the upper middle class in the nineteenth century. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming from Persuasions, The Wordsworth Circle, and Nineteenth-Century Contexts.
