Contributors
- Contributors
Keva X. Bui (kxb002@ucsd.edu) is a PhD student in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego with a graduate specialization in critical gender studies. Her research interests include queer and feminist science studies, Asian American literature and culture, queer-of-color critique, US militarism, gender and sexuality, performance theory, and transpacific studies. Keva's dissertation project traces how scientific knowledge production in the buildup to the Vietnam War shaped racial and gendered logics of militarism and settler colonialism in geographies across the Pacific and Southeast Asia.
Nicole Dib (nicole.dib@gmail.com) is a PhD student in English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her interests include contemporary American literature, comparative ethnic approaches to literary study, critical race studies, and road-trip narratives. Her current research is on the affective life of the American road trip, a project that examines how kinship structures road-trip novels by authors concerned with precarity and marginalization along lines of race, class, and gender.
Marlene Hansen Esplin (mhesplin@byu.edu) is an assistant professor of interdisciplinary humanities at Brigham Young University. Her core research interests are selftranslation and problems of translation or rewriting between US and Latin American literatures. Recent projects include an article that examines intersections between translation and ethnography in English translations of Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación and an article that analyzes instances of multilingual play and rasquachismo in works by Chicana mixed-media artist Celia Álvarez Muñoz.
Jose Fernandez (jo-fernandez@wiu.edu) is an associate professor of English at Western Illinois University. He specializes in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature and African American and Latinx literatures. His recent scholarship has appeared in Interdisciplinary Literary Studies and The Journal ófAmerican Drama and Theatre. He is currently working on a book-length project that focuses on instances of historical, thematic, and aesthetic convergences in African American and Latinx literatures after the 1960s.
Teresa Hernández (teresah@uoregon.edu) is a PhD student in the English Department at the University of Oregon. Her research interests include border studies, literary geography, Latinx and Chicanx literatures, and women-of-color feminisms. Her dissertation engages the contesting and overwriting sovereignties, citizenships, and nationalisms at the US–Mexico border and beyond, beginning with nineteenth-century literature.
Beverly Hogue (hogueb@marietta.edu) serves as McCoy Professor of English and Flesher Chair in the Humanities at Marietta College, where she teaches a variety of American and postcolonial literature classes. She has published essays in journals including Módern Fiction Studies, Pedagógy, and ISLE, as well as in Blackwell's A Companion tó the Regional Literatures of America (2003) and The Palgrave Handbook of the Southern Gothic (2016). She blogs at excelsiorbev.blogspot.com.
Jina B. Kim (jbkim@smith.edu) is an assistant professor of English and the study of women and gender at Smith College. Her research interests engage the intersection of critical disability studies, feminist- and queer-of-color critique, and contemporary ethnic American literature. She is currently at work on a manuscript that develops a crip-of-color critique framework in order to analyze the literary-cultural afterlife of 1996 US welfare reform. She has essays either published or forthcoming in Signs, American Quarterly, Disability Studies Quarterly, lateral, and The Asian American Literary Review.
Selina Lai-Henderson (slai.henderson@duke.edu) is an assistant professor of American literature and history at Duke Kunshan University. Her work spans transnational American studies and Afro-Asian connections in the context of comparative race, decolonization, and empire. She is the author of Mark Twain in China (Stanford UP, 2015). Her current research explores black internationalism in twentieth-century China, and it interrogates how intellectuals such as Langston Hughes and W. E. B. Du Bois engage alternative concepts of democracy through using China as an experimental ground.
Jessica Lang (jessica.lang@baruch.cuny.edu) is professor of English and the Newman Director of the Wasserman Jewish Studies Center at Baruch College, City University of New York. She has published widely on Jewish American literature, early American literature, and Holocaust literature.
Diego Millan (dmillan@wlu.edu) is an assistant professor of English and Africana...
