Contributors
- Contributors
Angela Hume is assistant professor of English and environmental literature, with African and Black American studies affiliation, at the University of Minnesota, Morris. She is the editor of Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field, co-edited with Gillian Osborne (U of Iowa P, 2018), and author of a book of poems titled Middle Time (Omnidawn, 2016). She has published articles on ecopoetics, Claudia Rankine, and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Kiki Smith.
Michael Nott, an independent scholar, is the author of Photopoetry 1845–2015, a Critical History (Bloomsbury, 2018) and has published articles on collaborations between poets and photographers. Alongside August Kleinzahler and Clive Wilmer, he is currently co-editing Thom Gunn’s correspondence.
Mrinalini Chakravorty is associate professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of In Stereotype: South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary (Columbia UP, 2014) and co-editor, with Joseph Parker, Herman Rapaport et al., of Spivak Moving (forthcoming from Seagull Press). She has published articles on transnationalism, film, global fiction, and gender and sexuality. Her current works in progress include “The Novel at the End of the World: Postcolonial Dystopias,” “Cultural Politics of Hunger,” and with Leila Neti, “Some Kind of Magic: Freddie Mercury, Postcolonial Performer.”
Molly MacVeagh, a doctoral candidate in English at Cornell University, is a Public Humanities Fellow with Humanities New York. She has recently published on Muriel Howarth and the Atomic Gardening Society, American restaurant culture, and climate “chick-lit.” She is currently writing a dissertation on climate fiction and everyday life.
Sam McBean is Senior Lecturer in Gender, Sexuality, and Contemporary Culture at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of Feminism’s Queer Temporalities (Routledge, 2016) and has published articles on queer temporality, feminist theory, new media and affect, and contemporary literature.
Jane F. Thraikill, Bank of America Honors Distinguished Term professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is the author of Affecting Fictions: Mind, Body, and Emotion in American Literary Realism (Harvard UP, 2007). She has published articles that explore the connections among literary study, the sciences, medicine, and philosophy. She is currently writing a book titled “Philosophical Siblings: Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James” (forthcoming from U of Pennsylvania P).
Kelly Mee Rich, assistant professor of English at Harvard University, has published articles on Britain’s Second World War and postwar period, cultural engagement with the welfare state, Muriel Spark, Kazuo Ishiguro, and infrastructure. She is at work on a book titled “States of Repair: Imagining Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel,” and a book on the movement of children across national borders and its imprint on literary and cultural production. She was recently a fellow at the Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College and is currently co-editing with Chris Holmes a forthcoming special issue of Modern Fiction Studies on Kazuo Ishiguro.
