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  • Contributors

Peter Becker is a Lecturer at Harvard University, Division of Continuing Education, where he teaches writing and American literature. His research focuses on the revisions of the historical novel and its narrative strategies after catastrophic events.

Aaron Colton is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology and an Assistant Director of the Georgia Tech Communication Center. He is currently researching the politics of writer's block as it is represented in twentieth- and twenty-first-century US fiction.

Tony M. Vinci is an Associate Professor of English at Ohio University-Chillicothe and author of Ghost, Android, Animal: Trauma and Literature Beyond the Human (forthcoming, Routledge). His recent publications examine how posthumanist theories of ethics and subjectivity necessarily reframe our understanding of the traumatic, especially as narrated in the literature and film of the fantastic.

Graham Thompson is Professor of American Literature at the University of Nottingham. His most recent book is Herman Melville: Among The Magazines (Massachusetts, 2018) and his articles have appeared in journals such as American Literature, MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, American Periodicals, and the Journal of American Studies.

Pardis Dabashi is an assistant professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she specializes in twentieth-century American literature and Film Studies. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, Modernism/modernity, Politics/Letters, PMLA, Public Books, and elsewhere. She is completing her first book manuscript, Moving Images, which argues that Hollywood cinema turned conventional plot into a site of intense affective investment for modernist writers otherwise committed to rejecting it on political and social grounds.

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