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Sandeep Banerjee is an Associate Professor of English at McGill University. He is the author of Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-Figurations of the Postcolony (Routledge, 2019). His research, typically focused on colonial and postcolonial South Asia, engages problems of literary aesthetics; the production of space and nature; and Marxism and anti-colonial thought. His articles have been published in Modern Asian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, Mediations, and New Global Studies in addition to several anthologies. He is a General Editor of the Routledge Series in the Cultures of the Global Cold War and a member of the editorial collective of the journal positions: asia critique (Duke UP).

Michelle Decker is an Assistant Professor of English at Scripps College, where she teaches and researches nineteenth- and twentieth-century African literatures. She is currently at work on a book manuscript that theorizes the formal and aesthetic relationship between the Long East Coast of Africa and the Indian Ocean world.

Jonathan Fardy is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Idaho State University. His research examines the aesthetics of art theory by exploring the role that style plays in theoretical writing on art. He is the author of three books: Laruelle and Non-Photography (Palgrave, 2018); Laruelle and Art: The Aesthetics of Non-Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2019); and Althusser and Art (Zero, 2019).

Brittany Kraus is a Ph.D. Candidate of English at Dalhousie University. Her research examines narratives of citizenship and migration in Canadian literature, poetry, theatre and performance art. She is the recipient of a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship and Killam Fellowship. Her writing has appeared in The Nabokov Online Journal (NOJ), Post-colonial Text, The Dalhousie Review, and Theatre Research in Canada.

Christopher Langlois teaches in the Department of English at Dawson College, Montreal. He specializes in modern and contemporary Anglophone literatures and critical theory. He is the author of Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature (Edinburgh, 2017) and the editor of Understanding Blanchot, Understanding Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2018). He is currently editing a volume of essays on Modern Irish Literature as World Literature for Bloomsbury›s «Literatures as World Literature» series.

Victor Li is an Associate Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of English and the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. The author of The Neo-Primitivist Turn: Critical Reflections on Alterity, Culture, and Modernity (2006), he has published in journals such as boundary 2, Criticism, Cultural Critique, Globalizations, Interventions, Parallax, and CR: The New Centennial Review. Recent articles include: “Giorgio Agamben, J. G. Farrell’s The Singapore Grip, and the Colonial Dispositif” in Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 3.3 (2016), and “Haunted by the Aboriginal: Theory and its Other” in Anthropology and Alterity: Responding to the Other, ed. Bernhard Leistle (2017).

David Shaw is a Ph.D. student currently studying at Concordia University in Montreal. His work focuses on the intersection of critical posthumanism and the Anthropocene. His work is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

Robert T. Tally Jr. is the NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Texas State University. His books include Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination (2019), Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism (2014), Spatiality (2013), Utopia in the Age of Globalization (2013), and, as editor, The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space (2018), The Geocritical Legacies of Edward W. Said (2015), Literary Cartographies (2014), and Geocritical Explorations (2011).

Robert Warrior is the Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Kansas and a member/citizen of the Osage Nation. He is the author of Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions (University of Minnesota Press, 1995) and The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction (University of Minnesota Press, 2006), and coauthor of Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee (New Press, 1996), American Indian Literary Nationalism (University of New Mexico Press, 2008), and Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009). He is past president of the American Studies Association and was the founding president of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association...

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