Contributors
- Contributors
Mitchum Huehls, associate professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the author of After Critique: Twenty-First Century Fiction in a Neoliberal Age (Oxford, 2016) and Qualified Hope: A Postmodern Politics of Time (Ohio State, 2009). He is the co-editor of Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture (Johns Hopkins, 2017), co-edited by Rachel Greenwald Smith, and has published articles on the relationship between contemporary literature and political ideas.
Sydney Boyd is an editor at the Federation of State Humanities Councils and a lecturer at the NYU Washington, DC Program of New York University, where she teaches classes on writing about music. Her current book project studies how music shapes narrative temporalities in twentieth-century literature, and one of her essays, "The Color of Sound: Hearing Timbre in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man" (2018), is published in Arizona Quarterly.
Marc Singer, professor of English at Howard University, is the author of Breaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies (Texas, 2018) and Grant Morrison: Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics (Mississippi, 2012), and editor of Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World (Ashgate, 2009), co-edited by Nels Pearson. He has published articles on contemporary fiction, comics, and film. His current work explores the rhetoric of fantasy and speculative fiction in contemporary literature.
Moberley Luger is assistant professor of teaching in the department of English language and literatures at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Ragtime for Beginners: Poems (Breakwater Books, 2008) and has published articles on cultural criticism in the poetry classroom, witness poetics, and memorialization in poetry and drama. Her current work focuses on pedagogies of literature and academic communication, including a project supporting the teaching and learning of oral communication skills by aligning speaking pedagogy with established pedagogies for writing in the disciplines.
J. D. Schnepf, assistant professor of American Studies at the University of Groningen, has published articles on surveillance technologies, drone humanitarianism, digital culture, and speculative fiction. She is currently writing a book titled "Drones and Domesticity: Women's Work and the Maintenance of US Empire."
Meg Samuelson is associate professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, and associate professor extraordinaire at Stellenbosch University. She is the author of Remembering the Nation, Dismembering Women? Stories of the South African Transition (U of KwaZulu-Natal P, 2007) and Claiming the City in South African Literature (Routledge, 2021), and co-editor of Nobody Ever Said AIDS: Poems and Stories from Southern Africa [End Page 550] (Kwela Books, 2004). Her recent publications include articles on the "oceanic south," "coastal form" and "coastal thought," sharks as uncanny figures of racial terror in the Anthropocene, the African Anthropocene and Mia Couto's poetics of the planet, J. M. Coetzee's "literatures of the South," and the oceans in world literature. Current work in progress includes a book titled "Sea and Shore in South African Literature: Tidelines" and articles on containerization and inundation in the "oceanic south." [End Page 551]
