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alex w corey is a contingent faculty member and academic labor organizer at Harvard University. They are working on a book that traces how discourses of binary sex inflect the racial dynamics of US musical culture.

clare rolens is an Associate Professor of English at Palomar College in San Marcos, CA. Previously published in Callaloo, she is currently working on a book project that explores class, identity passing, and social mobility in US crime fiction.

kristen lee over is Associate Professor of English, specializing in medieval British and American literatures and cultures. Her research interests include identity formation in late-medieval insular cultures, and the effects of white racism on American literature. She has written a book on French and Welsh Arthurian romance and medieval colonialism, and articles on Chaucer and the Middle Welsh tales Peredur fab Efrawg and Culhwch ag Olwen.

kurt cavender is an Assistant Professor of English at Kutztown University, where his research and teaching concern modern and contemporary American literature. His scholarly interests include the historical novel, climate change and contemporary ecofiction, critical philosophy and theory, and film and media studies. His current book project, American Fiction and the Problem of Historical Difference, examines how American literature from Henry James to Jesmyn Ward addresses the difficulty of imagining the present as both continuous with and different from the past.

thom van camp is a PhD candidate in Literary Studies. His research takes a presentist approach to nineteenth-century British romanticism and its entanglements with abolition, reading the romantics (and their post-war inheritors) alongside current work in Black Studies.

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