Contributors
- Contributors
Jonathan Najarian is a lecturer in the College of General Studies at Boston University. He is the editor of “Comics and/as Modernism: History, Form, Culture,” currently under contract. Works in progress include books titled “The Intermedial Era: Literary and Pictorial Narrative from Modernism to Comics” and “Written in Wood: The Life and Work of Lynd Ward.”
Michelle N. Huang, assistant professor of English and Asian American studies at Northwestern University, is the author of articles on feminist new materialism, race and scientific discourse, and Asia American speculative fiction. She is completing a book on posthumanism in contemporary Asian American literature.
Christopher Oakey is associate lecturer at The University of Notre Dame, Australia. He has published articles on modernist poetry, post-modern American poetry, poetry and epistemology, and philosophical poetry. He is writing a monograph titled “Philosophy and Crisis in the Poetry of George Oppen and Ron Silliman” and an article titled “Maggie Nelson’s Wittgenstein.”
Christopher Spaide, a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, has published articles on collectivity in the poetry of Adrienne Rich and Terrance Hayes. He is currently writing a book titled “Lyric Togetherness: Voicing Collectivity in Contemporary American Poetry.”
Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor is professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality studies at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park. She is the author of A Moment’s Monument: Revisionary Poetics in the English Sonnet (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1996) and Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fiction (Cambridge UP, 2013), and editor of The Victorian Comic Spirit (Ashgate, 2003) and The Scandal of Susan Sontag (Columbia UP, 2009). She has published articles on Utopia, nineteenth-century poetry, feminist utopia, plastic in literature, plasticity and aesthetics, plastic pollution and environmental activism, critique, and Catherine Malabou.
George Hart, professor of English at California State University, Long Beach, is the author of Inventing the Language to Tell It: Robinson Jeffers and the Biology of Consciousness (Fordham UP, 2013) and editor of Momentous Inclusions: The Life and Work of Larry Eigner, co-edited with Jennifer Bartlett (U of New Mexico P, 2020). He has published articles on Larry Eigner, A. R. Ammons, and ecopoetic form. His most recent book is Finding the Weight of Things: Larry Eigner’s Ecrippoetics (forthcoming from U of Alabama P).
Peter L’Official, assistant professor of literature at Bard College, is the author of Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin (Harvard UP, 2020). His next book will explore the intersections of literature, architecture, and blackness in America.
