John Attridge is Lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales. His essays on modern literature have appeared in journals such as ELH, The Henry James Review, Modernism/modernity and The Times Literary Supplement. He is completing a book on literary impressionism and the rise of professional society.
Scarlett Baron is Lecturer in Modern British and American Literature at University College London. She was previously a student at Christ Church, Oxford, and a Fellow by Examination at Magdalen College, Oxford. Her book, ‘Strandentwining Cable’: Joyce, Flaubert, and Intertextuality, was published by Oxford University Press in 2011. She is currently at work on a new project, A Genealogy of Intertextuality, which charts the literary prehistory of intertextual theory in texts of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Samuel Cross is a second-year JD candidate at Stanford University. He intends to practice criminal law. His article ‘The Ethics of Tact in The Wings of the Dove’ was published in Novel: A Forum on Fiction in 2010.
Leonard Diepeveen is Professor of English at Dalhousie University. He is the author of The Difficulties of Modernism (Routledge, 2003) and Changing Voices: The Modern Quoting Poem (University of Michigan Press, 1993), and author and co-author of a number of other books and essays. His most recent works are Artworld Prestige: Arguing Cultural Value (co-authored with Timothy van Laar, Oxford University Press, 2013) and Mock Modernism: An Anthology of Parodies, Travesties, Frauds; 1910–1935 (forthcoming from University of Toronto Press in 2013).
Paul Edwards has recently retired as Professor of English and History of Art from Bath Spa University and now works part-time as a Lecturer in British Modernism in the Department of World Art at the University of East Anglia. He has written widely on many aspects of Wyndham Lewis’s painting and writing, has edited several of his books, and curated exhibitions of his work. He has also published essays on Tom Stoppard, Ian McEwan and aspects of First World War literature. He is currently working on a comprehensive catalogue of Lewis’s painting and drawings.
Suzanne Hobson is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature in the English Department at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research focuses on modernism and literary theory and her book, Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics 1910–1960 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), considers questions of faith and belief in writers such as Djuna Barnes, D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Wyndham Lewis. She is co-editor of the Salt Companion to Mina Loy (Salt, 2010) and co-organizer of the London Modernism Seminar.
Sean Pryor is Lecturer in Poetry and Poetics at the University of New South Wales. He works on twentieth-century poetry, with a particular focus on modernism. His book, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and the Poetry of Paradise, was published by Ashgate in 2011.
Jason Puskar is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he specializes in American fiction from 1880 to 1950 and the cultural history of risk. He is the author of Accident Society: Fiction, Collectivity, and the Production of Chance (Stanford University Press, 2011), and his work has appeared in American Literary History, Daedalus and English Studies.
Rod Rosenquist is Lecturer in English at the University of Portsmouth and Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of Modernism, the Market and the Institution of the New (Cambridge, 2009) as well as essays on Joyce, BLAST, literary myth and celebrity modernism. He is working on modernist memoirs.
Max Saunders is Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute, Professor of English and Co-Director of the Centre for Life-Writing Research at King’s College London, where he teaches modern English, European and American literature. He is the author of Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life, 2 vols (Oxford University Press, 1996) and Self Impression: Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature (Oxford University Press, 2010), as well as the editor of five volumes of Ford’s work, most recently Some Do Not … (Carcanet, 2010) and The Good Soldier (Oxford University Press, 2012). He has also published essays on Eliot, Joyce, Rosamond Lehmann, Richard Aldington, May Sinclair, Lawrence, Freud, Pound, Ruskin and others.
Paul Sheehan is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is the author of Modernism, Narrative and Humanism (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Modernism and the Aesthetics of Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2013). He has also recently co-edited a special edition of Textual Practice on ‘The Uses of Anachronism’, and published essays on Werner Herzog, W.G. Sebald and Cormac McCarthy.
Jessica Weare completed her doctorate in English at Stanford University in 2011. Her dissertation, Competing Narratives: British Memoirs and Fictions of the First World War, examined five figures of British modernism who lived through the First World War and subsequently wrote both a memoir and a novel about their experiences, using those narratives to delineate the roles of generic boundaries, authenticity, and fictionality in modernist literature. She currently works in corporate social responsibility in Silicon Valley.