Contributors

Megan Behrent is Assistant Professor of English at NYC College of Technology, CUNY. Her research focuses on literature and social movements and the intersection between race, gender, sexuality, and class in twentieth and twenty-first century American literature. She is a contributor to Inside Our Schools (Harvard Education Press, 2017) and Education and Capitalism (Haymarket Books, 2012), and has published essays in Assuming Gender, Critical Survey of American Literature, Workplace: a Journal of Academic Labor, International Socialist Review, New Politics, and Harvard Educational Review. She is presently at work on a book provisionally entitled Poetry & Politics: Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich and the Women’s Liberation Movement.

Ignatius Chukwumah, Ph.D is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Literary Studies, Federal University, Wukari, Taraba State, Nigeria, with research interests in African literature; African American literature; Indigenous African interpretive symbolic codes; figural and mythic studies; and the new media joke culture. His articles have appeared in African Literature Today; Tydskrif vir Letterkunde; Ilha do Destero: A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English, and Cultural Studies; CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture; Matatu: A Journal of African Literature and Culture; Forum for World Literature Studies; Arcadia; and in a host of other academic journals. His edited volume, Joke-Performance in Africa: Mode, Media and Meaning (London: Routledge, 2018) has just been published.

Sandra M. Leonard is Assistant Professor of English at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. Her research centers on aesthetic uses of plagiarism in nineteenth-century literature.

Paula Martín-Salván is Associate Professor at the University of Córdoba, Spain, where she teaches English and American Literature. Her current research focuses on the representation of communities in modernist and postmodernist fiction, and on contemporary critical theory. She has co-edited the volumes Community in Twentieth Century Fiction (Palgrave, 2013) and New Perspectives on Community and the Modernist Subject (Routledge, 2017). She is the author of the monograph The Language of Ethics and Community in Graham Greene’s Fiction (Palgrave 2015).

David Stromberg is a writer, translator, and literary scholar. His translations have appeared in The New Yorker and Asymptote, and his fiction in Ambit and KGB Lit Mag. He is author of four cartoon collections, including BADDIES (Melville House), and a critical study, Narrative Faith (U Del Press). His scholarly work has appeared in The Russian Review, Comparative Literature Studies, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, and in collections including The Ethics of Literary Communication (Benjamins, 2013) and Emerging Vectors of Narratology (de Gruyter, 2017). He recently published an edited collection, In the Land of Happy Tears: Yiddish Tales for Modern Times (Delacorte/Random House).