Contributors
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Lawrie Balfour
Lawrie Balfour teaches politics and American studies at the University of Virginia. Author of Democracy's Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W. E. B. Du Bois (Oxford University Press) and The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy (Cornell University Press), she writes about African American political thought, the politics of reparations, and politics & literature. She is the former editor of Political Theory and is currently completing a book on Toni Morrison and the idea of freedom.
Johaina K. Crisostomo
Johaina K. Crisostomo is a PhD candidate in English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently working on a literary-intellectual history of the epistemic shift in the Philippine political imaginary provoked by the abrupt changeover between the Spanish and American regimes. Reading the Filipino novels of the Americanized twentieth century as the formal afterlives of the revolutionary political theologies of the Hispanicized nineteenth century, her work traces the ideological translations that occurred in the formulation of the Philippine sense of self and the social contract.
Ellen Cushman
Ellen Cushman is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and Dean's Professor of Civic Sustainability and English in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University. She has been a scholar of literacy, race, and culture for two decades and a scholar of Cherokee literacies and empire for fifteen of those years.
Sarah Dowling
Sarah Dowling is assistant professor in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Victoria College at the University of Toronto. Dowling is the author of Translingual Poetics: Writing Personhood under Settler Colonialism (University of Iowa Press, 2018) and three poetry collections: Entering Sappho (Coach House, 2020), DOWN (Coach House, 2014), and Security Posture (Snare, 2009).
Perla M. Guerrero
Perla M. Guerrero is associate professor of American studies and US Latina/o studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research and teaching interests include relational race and ethnicity, with a focus on Latinxs and Asian Americans, space and place, immigration and legality, labor, and US history. She has received multiple awards including a Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship and is working on her second book about deportation and coerced return to Mexico
Jolene Hubbs
Jolene Hubbs is associate professor of American studies at the University of Alabama. She studies the literature and culture of the US South.
Jang Wook Huh
Jang Wook Huh is assistant professor of American ethnic studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the literary connections between black liberation struggles in the United States and anticolonial movements in Korea during the Japanese and American occupations.
Juliet Rose Kunkel
Juliet Rose Kunkel is an independent scholar who received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
Bayley J. Marquez
Bayley J. Marquez (Santa Ynez Band Chumash) is an assistant professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Paul Nadal
Paul Nadal is assistant professor of English and American studies at Princeton University. He is currently completing a book on Philippine literature in English in relation to the political economy of labor export and migrant remittances.
Rachel Norman
Rachel Norman is assistant professor of English and director of writing at Linfield University. Her research and teaching center on the construction of race and ethnicity in the Arab diaspora in Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
Mary Louise Pratt
Mary Louise Pratt is Silver Professor (emerita) at New York University and Olive H. Palmer Professor of Humanities (emerita) at Stanford University. Her research interests include language, globalization and empire, decolonization, indigeneity as a planetary force, and the challenge of ecological catastrophe. Dr. Pratt's books include Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse (Indiana University Press, 1977); Women, Culture, and Politics in Latin America (University of California Press, 1992); Linguistics for Students of Literature (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980); Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (Routledge, 2008); and Los imaginarios planetarios (Aluvión, 2018). She is coeditor of Trumpism, Mexican America, and the Struggle for Latinx Citizenship (University of New Mexico Press, 2021). Her new book, Planetary Longings (Duke University Press), will appear in 2022. She was president of the Modern Language...
