Bios
- Bios
Mary Grace Albanese is assistant professor of English at SUNY Binghamton and a 2019–20 Fellow at the Society for the Humanities, Cornell University. Her work has appeared in American Literature and ESQ, among other venues.
Tess Chakkalakal is the Peter M. Small associate professor of Africana studies and English at Bowdoin College. She is the author of Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America (University of Illinois Press, 2011) and coeditor of Literature, Jim Crow and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs (University of Georgia Press, 2013). She is currently at work on a literary biography of Charles W. Chesnutt.
Brigitte Fielder is assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her first book, theorizing race via genealogies of interracial kinship in nineteenth-century American literature, is forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2020. She is currently working on a second book, on racialized human-animal relationships in the long nineteenth century.
Johanna Heil is assistant professor (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) of American studies at Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany. She is the author of Walking the Möbius Strip: An Inquiry into Knowing in Richard Powers’s Fiction (Universitaetsverlag Winter, 2016) and is currently working on her second book project, “Becoming-Body: Technologies of the Self and Freedom in American Modern Dance,” in which she explores the implications of corporeal materiality for the construction of subjectivity and freedom in American modern dance techniques. She has published in the fields of American literature, cultural theory, and dance studies, including recent articles in Dance Chronicle and Hypatia.
Heinz Ickstadt is professor of American literature at the Kennedy Institute of North American Studies, Free University Berlin, emeritus since 2003. He has published on late nineteenth-century [End Page 363] American literature and culture, on the fiction and poetry of American modernism and postmodernism, and also on the history and theory of American studies. He was chairman of the German Association of American Studies, 1990–93, and of the European Association of American Studies, 1996–2000.
Alex Zweber Leslie is a PhD candidate in English at Rutgers University. He is currently working on a dissertation on print circulation and cultural geography in postbellum America.
Sascha Pöhlmann is professor of North American literature and culture at the University of Konstanz, Germany. He is the author of Pynchon’s Postnational Imagination (Winter Verlag, 2010) and Future-Founding Poetry: Topographies of Beginnings from Whitman to the Twenty-First Century (Camden House, 2015), and Stadt und Straße: Anfangsorte in der amerikanischen Literatur (Transcript Verlag, 2018), the coeditor of essay collections on Thomas Pynchon, Mark Z. Danielewski, foundational places in/of modernity, electoral cultures, American music, unpopular culture, and most recently video games and American studies. He has published essays on contemporary fiction and poetry, queer theory, film, video games, and black metal, among other topics.
Kerstin Schmidt is professor of English and chair of American studies at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany. Scholarships and research stipends have brought her to Yale University, to Indiana University Bloomington, to the University of Wyoming, to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Life, and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, as well as to the Universities of Toronto and British Columbia Vancouver. In over ten monographs and edited volumes and over thirty essays, she has written on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and culture, focusing on drama and theater, race and diaspora studies, theories of space/place, as well as on media theory and documentary photography.
Clemens Spahr is assistant professor of American studies at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. He is the author of A Poetics of Global Solidarity: Modern American Poetry and Social Movements (Palgrave, 2015) and Radical Beauty: American Transcendentalism and the Aesthetic Critique of Modernity (Schoeningh, 2011). He has published in Nineteenth-Century Prose, NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, and Amerikastudien / American Studies. His current book project Romantic Education investigates the relationship between literary romanticism and the educational institutions of antebellum America. [End Page 364]
Rafael Walker is assistant professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York. A specialist in American and African American literature, he is...
