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Patrick S. Allen (pallen@culver.edu) is an assistant professor of English at Culver-Stockton College, where he teaches courses on Toni Morrison, multicultural literature, graphic medicine, and the Harlem Renaissance. His research attends to questions of race, health, and medicine, especially in Black print culture. He looks particularly to the place of the Black medical professional in the United States and in US literature and the modes by which both doctors and lay writers portray health and medicine in the post-bellum, pre-Harlem era. His work on the “practice of print” performed by early Black US “doctresses” Rebecca Crumpler and Rebecca Cole appears in Arizona Quarterly.

Giselle Liza Anatol (ganatol@ku.edu) is a professor of English at the University of Kansas. She specializes in literature of the African diaspora, regularly teaching courses on Caribbean women’s writing, Toni Morrison, Black speculative fiction, and multicultural works for children and young adults. Her publications include the single-authored Things That Fly in the Night: Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora (Rutgers UP, 2015), edited volumes on J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight books, and essays on authors such as Jamaica Kincaid, Langston Hughes, Jacqueline Woodson, Nalo Hopkinson, and Audre Lorde.

Daniella Cádiz Bedini (dc3098@columbia.edu) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her dissertation examines transnational literary relations in the Americas in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She focuses on writing published in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, and the United States, analyzing translation and adaptation as practices in the establishment of anti-imperial literary print networks.

Srimayee Basu (srimayeb@uci.edu) is an assistant professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. Her research areas include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature, Black Atlantic studies, and labor history. Her current book project, Punishment and Revolution, reads Anglophone Black Atlantic literature alongside penal history and the histories of slavery and abolition in the long nineteenth century and offers a new account of how extra-economic violence racialized New World labor.

Robin Brooks (rob88@pitt.edu) is an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Africana Studies. Her research and teaching interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, particularly African American, Caribbean, African, and American multi-ethnic literatures, as well as working-class studies, feminist theories, and postcolonial studies. She is the author of Class Interruptions: Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women’s Fiction (U of North Carolina P, 2022). She holds a PhD in English from the University of Florida, an MA in Afro-American Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a BA in English from Florida State University. For the 2019–20 academic year, she was a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in residence at Emory University.

Lauren M. Brown (lmbrown@albion.edu) is an assistant professor of English at Albion College, where she teaches various courses in American and contemporary literature and college writing. Her research interests span twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and attends to the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, and nation—particularly in work by African American, Asian American, Native American, and Latinx writers. She has most recently published articles on Cormac McCarthy in The Cormac McCarthy Journal and Chang-rae Lee in The New Americanist. Her current projects are focused on Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and Isabel Allende.

Margarita M. Castromán Soto (mcastroman@rice.edu) is an assistant professor of English at Rice University and an affiliate faculty member of the Center for African and African American Studies. In her research and teaching, she focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century African American, Latinx, and Caribbean literatures with an emphasis on archive theory and digital cultures. Her current book project Collecting Race: The Archival Impulse in Twentieth-Century Black Literature and Culture, explores how twentieth- and twenty-first-century Black writers theorize Black archives as new ways of being, understanding, and recording the human. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in African American Review and Diverse Unfreedoms: The Afterlives and Transformations of Post-Transatlantic Bondages (Routledge, 2019).

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