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PATRICK BURLEY <patrick.burley@univ.ox.ac.uk> is a doctoral researcher in English at the University of Oxford. His thesis considers the sociopolitical factors informing the use of experimental forms in postwar British fiction (circa 1955–74).

MOLLY FERGUSON <meferguson2@bsu.edu> teaches postcolonial literatures at Ball State University. Her scholarship has recently been published or is forthcoming in Modern Language Studies, LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory, New Hibernia Review, Studi Irlandesi, Nordic Irish Studies, and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. She is working on a book about feminist folklore adaptations in contemporary Irish writing.

ELLEN G. FRIEDMAN <friedman@tcnj.edu> is Professor of English at The College of New Jersey. She has recently published her family memoir The Seven: A Family Holocaust Story (Wayne State UP, 2017), which tells the largely unknown story of Polish Jews whose lives were saved in the Soviet Union during WWII. She has published Breaking the Sequence: Women’s Experimental Fiction (Princeton UP, 1989) and Morality USA (U of Minnesota P, 1998), as well as articles in such journals as MFS, PMLA, and Ms. magazine. She is working on a book on post-WII Berlin.

MINDI MCMANN <mcmannm@tcnj.edu> is Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature in English at The College of New Jersey. Her scholarship focuses on ethics, political philosophy, and critical race studies across a range of literature from South Africa, Northern Ireland, the Middle East, and England. Her work has appeared in MFS, College Literature, and Paradoxa. She is currently working on a manuscript on literature and political reconciliation.

YOGITA GOYAL <ygoyal@humnet.ucla.edu> is Professor of African American Studies and English at UCLA and editor of the journal Contemporary Literature. She is the author of Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature (Cambridge UP, 2010) and Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery (NYU P, 2019) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature (2017) and a special issue of Research in African Literatures (2014) on Africa and the Black Atlantic.

JENNIFER M. GULLY <jmgully@wm.edu> teaches in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at William & Mary. Her research interests lie at the intersection of language policy, translation theory, and literary aesthetics. Together with Lynn Mie Itagaki, she has recently published an essay in PhiloSOPHIA on the German activist collective Zentrum für politische Schönheit: “The Migrant is Dead, Long Live the Citizen! Pro-migrant Activism at EU Borders.”

REBECCA H. HOGUE <rhhogue@ucdavis.edu> is a PhD candidate in the Department of English with a Designated Emphasis in Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis. Her work has been published in The Contemporary Pacific and Transmotion. Among her works in progress, she is coediting a special forum on transnational nuclear imperialisms for the Journal of Transnational American Studies.

LYNN MIE ITAGAKI <itagakil@missouri.edu> is the author of Civil Racism: The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and the Crisis of Racial Burnout (2016) and writes about citizenship, immigration, and inequality for academic and popular audiences. Her work in progress includes books on financial citizenship after the Great Recession and the bystander in human rights discourses. She teaches in the Departments of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

HELEN MAKHDOUMIAN <makhdou2@illinois.edu> is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is also completing a graduate minor in American Indian Studies and a graduate certificate through the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies. Her essays have appeared in Studies in American Indian Literatures and the Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies. She is a 2019–20 Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities graduate student fellow.

SANDRA KUMAMOTO STANLEY <sandra.stanley@csun.edu> is a professor of American literature at California State University, Northridge. She is the author of Louis Zukofsky and the Transformation of a Modern American Poetics (U of California P, 1994) and editor of Other Sisterhoods: Literary Theory and U.S. Women of Color (U of Illinois P, 1998). She has published in such journals as Twentieth-Century Literature, Critique, Journal of Modern Literature, MELUS, and Amerasia Journal.

NANDINI THIYAGARAJAN <nat3@nyu.edu> is a...

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