Notes on Contributors
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Jennifer Brittan is a lecturer in the Department of Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies, Mona. She has published articles in American Literary History and Studies in Travel Writing. Her current projects include a critical edition of The Mambi-Land: Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba by James J. O’Kelly (forthcoming, University of Virginia Press).
David Faflik is Associate Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island. A specialist in nineteenth-century American literature and culture, he is the author of Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840 – 1860 (Northwestern University Press, 2012), Melville and the Question of Meaning (Routledge, 2018), Urban Formalism: The Work of City Reading (forthcoming Fordham University Press), and Transcendental Heresies: Harvard and the Modern American Practice of Unbelief (forthcoming University of Massachusetts Press). His current research is focused on the literary forms and cultural functions of the gift book in early America.
Natasha Hurley is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies and Senior Director of the Office of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Alberta. She is author of Circulating Queerness: Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) and co-editor of Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children (University of Minnesota Press, 2004).
Yeonhaun Kang is a lecturer in the Department of English and research fellow of the Institute for the Humanities at Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea. Her research and teaching focus on 20th/21st century American literature and culture, comparative U.S. multiethnic literatures, environmental humanities, literature and science, and critical food studies. She is currently working on the intersections of environmental racism, migrant labor, and contemporary food politics in transnational contexts.
James Peacock is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literatures at Keele University in the UK. He works on contemporary American fiction, with a particular interest in New York novels and fictions of gentrification. He is the author of Brooklyn Fictions: The Contemporary Urban Community in a Global Age (Bloomsbury, 2015) and is currently conducting research for a book on American and British gentrification stories.
Maria A. Windell is assistant professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she is completing the manuscript for her first book, tentatively titled Transamerican Sentimentalism: At the Margins of Nineteenth-Century US Literary History. She recently co-edited a special issue of English Language Notes on “Latinx Lives in Hemispheric Context” with Jesse Alemán; her work has also appeared in Nineteenth-Century Literature, J19, and American Literary Realism.
