Notes on Contributors
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Mahmoud Ababneh is pursuing a Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of Calgary on Treaty 7 territory. His research centers around trans-Indigenous and postcolonial literatures, decolonization, and settler-colonialism.
Jennifer Donahue is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Arizona. She specializes in Caribbean literature with a focus on the relationship between narrative, trauma, and sexual politics. Her work has appeared in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Studies in Gothic Fiction, and Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research. She is currently working on a book-length study of the intersection of medicine, race, and empire in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Caribbean writing.
Charlotta Elmgren received her Ph.D. in Literature in English from Stockholm University in 2019. Her book J. M. Coetzee's Poetics of the Child is forthcoming with Bloomsbury in 2020. She is currently working on a study of novelistic responses to the learning society in contemporary Anglophone fiction.
Brandi Estey-Burtt is completing her Ph.D. in English at Dalhousie University with funding from SSHRC, Killam, and the O'Brien Foundation. Her dissertation explores the messianic in contemporary postsecular literature. She also works on the relationship between postsecularism and postcolonial studies and writes on critical animal studies.
Alexander Fyfe recently completed his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and African Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. His work focuses on the relations between contemporary African literary production and global capitalism. He has published articles in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Research in African Literatures, and The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry.
Desiree Hellegers is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty of the Collective for Social and Environmental Justice at Washington State University Vancouver, USA. She is the author of No Room of Her Own: Women's Stories of Homelessness, Life, Death and Resistance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Handmaid to Divinity: Natural Philosophy, Poetry, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England (U of Oklahoma P, 2000). Her research interests include environmental justice ecocriticism, ecofeminism, oral history, civil liberties, militarism, and social movements.
Kelly Hewson is Professor Emerita in the Department of English, Languages and Culture at Mount Royal University, Calgary.
Janice Ho is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of Nation and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century British Novel, published by Cambridge UP in 2015. Her interests are in modernism, twentieth- and twenty-first-century British and Anglophone literature, and postcolonial studies.
Sten Pultz Moslund is an Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Southern Denmark. His research focuses on postcolonial literature, migration literature and, more recently, the relation between place, literature and aesthetics. Apart from a range of books and articles on migration literature, postcolonial literature, and theory, Moslund has published Migration Literature and Hybridity (2010), Literature's Sensuous Geographies: Postcolonial Matters of Place (2015), and a co-written book on "postmigration," The Postmigrant Condition: New Perspectives on Migration, Multiculturalism and the Arts (2019).
Pavithra Narayanan is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty of the Collective for Social and Environmental Justice at Washington State University Vancouver, USA. She is the author of What Are You Reading?: The World Market and Indian Literary Production (Routledge, 2012). Her research areas include the history of the book, processes of decolonization, Indigenous land rights and movements, civilian resistance movements, postcolonial ecocriticism, social and environmental justice, nationalism, and global capitalism.
Samantha Pinto (Ph.D., UCLA 2007) is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty of Women's and Gender Studies, African and African Diaspora Studies, The Warfield Center for African American Studies, and LGBTQ Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her book, Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic (NYU Press, 2013), was the winner of the 2013 William Sanders Scarborough Prize for African American Literature and Culture from the MLA. Her work has been published in journals including Meridians, Signs, Palimpsest, Sa-fundi, Small Axe, and Atlantic Studies, and she has received fellowships from the NEH and the Harry Ransom Center. Her second book, Infamous Bodies, forthcoming from Duke, explores the relationship between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century black women celebrities and discourses of race...
