Notes on Contributors
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Talia Argondezzi is the director of the writing and speaking program at Ursinus College, where she runs the writing center and teaches courses in women's literature, writing pedagogy, and podcasting, among other subjects. Her work on the Bounty mutiny and the founding of Pitcairn Island is available in Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
Devan Bailey is a PhD candidate in English at UC Irvine, where he has served as program coordinator of the UCI Center for Culture and Capital and is currently writing a dissertation on the tragic mode in twentieth-century interpretations of history. His most recent publication (coauthored with Catherine Liu and published in the Los Angeles Review of Books) analyzes the impact of "star power" on the institutional configuration of the humanities in recent decades.
Benjamin Child is an associate professor of English at Colgate University, where he teaches courses in American literature and the environmental humanities. He is the author of The Whole Machinery: The Rural Modern in Cultures of the US South, 1890–1946 (2019), and has published essays in journals such as American Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, and Southern Cultures. His current project explores late-nineteenth-century U.S. populism as a literary phenomenon.
Maia Gil'Adí is an assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where she specializes in Latinx and multiethnic literature. Her work examines representations of violence in contemporary Latinx speculative fiction and has appeared or is forthcoming in ASAP/J, MELUS, Aztlán, and Latino Studies. She is also the coeditor for a forthcoming special issue of the journal for the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present titled "New Worlds of Speculation."
Carl W. Thompson is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Illinois. His research focuses on civic belonging and the environment in nineteenth-century American literature and his work can also be found in Edge Effects.
