Contributors
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CLARE BARKER <c.f.barker@leeds.ac.uk> is Associate Professor of English literature at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the author of Postcolonial Fiction and Disability: Exceptional Children, Metaphor and Materiality (2011) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability (2017). Her current research explores representations of genetic research and biocolonialism in contemporary literature and film, with a particular focus on indigenous writers and filmmakers’ responses to genetic science.
PARDIS DABASHI <pdabashi@unr.edu> is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is co-editor of the forthcoming New Faulkner Studies (Cambridge UP, 2021), and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in PMLA, Modernism/Modernity, Arizona Quarterly, Public Books, Politics/Letters, and elsewhere. Her current book project, “Moving Images,” studies identification, normativity, and narrative form in modernist literature and popular cinema. Her second book will explore representations of aristocracy in film and the modern novel.
BENJAMIN MANGRUM <benjamin.mangrum@sewanee.edu> is the author of Land of Tomorrow: Postwar Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism (2019). His work has also been published in PMLA, American Literature, New Literary History, Twentieth-Century Literature, and elsewhere. Having recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Michigan Society of Fellows, he now teaches at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.
REBECCA S. OH <rsoh@illinois.edu> is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her current book project examines the generativity of political failure for rethinking state responses to environmental harm in fiction and policy from across the Global South. Her research has appeared in Interventions and is forthcoming in other venues.
ANDREW PEPPER <a.pepper@qub.ac.uk> is Senior Lecturer of English at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the author of Unwilling Executioner: Crime Fiction and the State (OUP, 2016) and co-editor of Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction (Palgrave, 2016) and The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Crime Fiction (Routledge, 2020). He also wrote a series of crime novels set in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland, including The Last Days of Newgate (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006).
EVELYN JAFFFE SCHREIBER <eschreib@gwu.edu> is Professor of English at The George Washington University and is the author of Subversive Voices: Eroticizing the Other in William Faulkner and Toni Morrison (2001), Race, Trauma, and Home in the Novels of Toni Morrison (2010), and Healing trauma: The Power of Listening (2018). Her research applies Lacanian and other psychoanalytic principles of identity/subjectivity/agency, trauma theory, cultural studies, and neuroscience to works by Faulkner, Morrison, and Pinter.
ERIKA RENÉE WILLIAMS <erika_williams@emerson.edu> is Associate Professor of African American Literature and Culture at Emerson College. She is the author of “A Lie of Omission: Plagiarism in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand” (African American Review) and “Subverted Passing: Racial and Transgender Identities in Linda Villarosa’s Passing for Black” (Studies in American Fiction). Her current monograph Cross-Caste Romance and Queer Intimacy in the Literature of W. E. B. Du Bois is forthcoming (SUNY Press).
