Rachel Adams is professor of English and director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University. She is the author of Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery; Continental Divides: Remapping the Cultures of North America; and Sideshow USA: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination. She is coeditor (with Benjamin Reiss and David Serlin) of Keywords for Disability Studies.
Judith Brown is associate professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington, and author of Glamour in Six Dimensions: Modernism and the Radiance of Form (Cornell University Press, 2009). She is working on a new project called Passive States: Style and Global Modernism.
Christopher Bush is associate professor of French and comparative literary studies at Northwestern University and coeditor of the journal Modernism/modernity. His research and teaching focus on comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to literary modernisms, especially the interactions between European and East Asian aesthetic theory, avant-gardes, and media. His publications include Ideographic Modernism: China, Writing, Media (Oxford University Press, 2010) and The Floating World: Japoniste Aesthetics and Global Modernity (forthcoming from Columbia University Press).
David Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. A past president of the American Comparative Literature Association, David Damrosch has written widely on comparative and world literature from antiquity to the present. His books include The Narrative Covenant: Transformations of Genre in the Growth of Biblical Literature (1987), We Scholars: Changing the Culture of the University (1995), What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), and How to Read World Literature (2008). He is the founding general editor of the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature (2004), the editor of Teaching World Literature (2009), and the coeditor of The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature (2009), The Routledge Companion to World Literature (2011), and Xin fangxiang: bijiao wenxue yu shijie wenxue duben (New directions: a reader of comparative and world literature; Peking University Press, 2010). He is presently completing a book entitled Comparing the Literatures: What Every Comparatist Needs to Know and starting a book on the role of global scripts in the formation of national literatures.
Jacob Edmond is associate professor of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the author of A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature (Fordham University Press, 2012; honorable mention for the ACLA Harry Levin Prize and ASAP book prize) and has published essays in such journals as Comparative Literature, Contemporary Literature, Poetics Today, and China Quarterly. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the poetics of iteration.
Mark Goble received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and has taught at the University of California, Irvine, and the University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently associate professor of English. He is the author of Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life (Columbia University Press, 2010) and has published essays in such journals as American Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, ELH, MLQ, ELN, and in collections on Alfred Hitchcock and Henry James.
Eric Hayot is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Chinese Dreams (2004), The Hypothetical Mandarin (2009), On Literary Worlds (2012), and The Elements of Academic Style (2014).
Tsitsi Jaji is associate professor of English and African and African American studies at Duke University. She is the author of Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity (2014), which received the African Literature Association’s First Book Award and honorable mentions from ACLA and SEM, as well as a chapbook of poems Carnaval, featured in Seven New Generation African Poets (2014).
B. Venkat Mani is Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of Cosmopolitical Claims: Turkish-German Literatures from Nadolny to Pamuk (University of Iowa Press, 2007) and Recoding World Literature: Libraries, Print-Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books (Fordham University Press, 2016); coeditor of three special issues, “Cosmopolitical and Transnational Approaches to German Studies” (Transit 2011), “What Counts as World Literature?” (Modern Language Quarterly 2013), and “Measuring the World” (Monatshefte 2016); and coeditor of Wiley-Blackwell’s forthcoming Companion to World Literature. He has published numerous articles on cosmopolitanism, world literature, and postcoloniality. He is founder and codirector of UW-Madison’s World Literature Research Workshop (2007–2014) and is codirector of the project Bibliomigrancy: World Literature in the Public Sphere (2014–2016), a Mellon Sawyer Seminar in Comparative Cultural Studies. He was Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scholar at the Institut für Buchwissenschaft, University of Leipzig and the German National Library (2011–2012).
Monica L. Miller is associate professor of English at Barnard College, Columbia University, in New York. She is the author of Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity (2009), which won the 2010 William Sanders Scarborough Prize for the best book in African American literature and culture from the Modern Language Association and was shortlisted for the 2010 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. She is currently at work on two book projects: Affirmative Actions: How to Define Black Culture in the Twenty-First Century, which examines very contemporary black literature and culture to assess the consequences of thinking of black identity as “postblack” or “postracial,” and Blackness, Swedish Style: Race, Diaspora, and Belonging in Contemporary Sweden, a multigenre investigation of multi culturalism, integration, and black Europeanness/Afro-Swedishness in relation to theories of diaspora and diasporic belonging.
David L. Pike is professor of literature at American University. His books include Passage Through Hell: Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds (1997), Subterranean Cities: The World Beneath Paris and London, 1800–1945 (2005), Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800–2001 (2007), and Canadian Cinema Since the 1980s: At the Heart of the World (2012). He is coauthor of Literature: A World of Writing (Pearson, 2012) and coeditor of the Longman Anthology of World Literature, and he has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century urban literature, culture, and film. Current book projects include the nineteenth-century city after the nineteenth century and “Slum Lore: The Imagination of Poverty.”
Martin Puchner is the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of The Drama of Ideas: Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2010; winner of the Joe A. Callaway Award), Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes (Princeton University Press, 2006; winner of the MLA’s James Russell Lowell Award), and Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002; 2011), as well as of numerous edited volumes and sourcebooks, including Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings (2005). He is the general editor of the Norton Anthology of World Literature and the Norton Anthology of Western Literature. He also writes for the London Review of Books, Raritan, Bookforum, n+1, Public Books, and Inside Higher Ed.
Jahan Ramazani is University Professor and Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of five books: Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres (2013); A Transnational Poetics (2009), winner of the 2011 Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association, awarded for the best book in comparative literary history published in the years 2008 to 2010; The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English (2001); Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney (1994), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Yeats and the Poetry of Death: Elegy, Self-Elegy, and the Sublime (1990). He edited the most recent edition of the Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry (2003) and, with Jon Stallworthy, “The Twentieth Century and After” in the Norton Anthology of English Literature (2006, 2012). He is also an associate editor of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (2012).
Christopher Reed is professor of English and visual culture at the Pennsylvania State University. His recent books include Art and Homosexuality: A History of Ideas (2011), the coauthored If Memory Serves: Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past (2012), and The Chrysanthème Papers: The Pink Notebook of Madame Chrysanthème and Other Documents of French Japonisme, a translation and critical introduction of a novella by Félix Régamey (2010). He has also published widely on the Bloomsbury group. A new book, Bachelor Japanists: Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities, is forthcoming in the Modernist Latitudes series of Columbia University Press.
Efthymia Rentzou is associate professor of French literature in the Department of French and Italian at Princeton University. She studies avant-garde and modernist literature and art, particularly poetics; the relation between image and text; social analysis of literature; politics and literature; and the internationalization of the avant-garde. Her first book, Littérature malgré elle. Le surréalisme et la transformation du littéraire (2010), examines the construction of literary phenomena in the production of an antiliterary movement, surrealism. She is currently working on a second book, Concepts of the World: The Avant-Garde and the Idea of the International, that explores the conceptualization of the “world” in the work and activities of writers and artists within and around historical avant-garde movements—futurism, dada, and surrealism—during the period 1900 through 1940.
Gayle Rogers is associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History (Oxford, 2012) and, with Sean Latham, Modernism: Evolution of an Idea (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015). His work has appeared in PMLA, Modernism/modernity, Comparative Literature, Novel, Journal of Modern Literature, James Joyce Quarterly, and Revista de Estudios Orteguianos, and in volumes including the Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms (2012) and the Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel (2015). His book Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature will be published by Columbia University Press in 2016.
Mariano Siskind is professor of Romance languages and literatures at Harvard University. He teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American literature with an emphasis on its world-literary relations as well as the production of cosmopolitan discourses and processes of aesthetic globalization. He is the author of over two dozen academic essays and of Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America (Northwestern University Press, 2014). He has edited Homi Bhabha’s Nuevas minorías, nuevos derechos. Notas sobre cosmopolitimos vernáculos (2013) and Poéticas de la distancia. Adentro y afuera de la literatura argentina (Norma, 2006) (together with Sylvia Molloy). His monograph Latin American Literature and the Great War: On the Globality of World War I will be published in 2017.
Rebecca L. Walkowitz is professor and director of graduate studies in the English Department and affiliate faculty in the Comparative Literature Program at Rutgers University. She is past president of the Modernist Studies Association and, with David James and Matthew Hart, coeditor of the book series Literature Now, published by Columbia University Press. She is the author of Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in the Age of World Literature (2015) and Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation (2006) and the editor or coeditor of seven books, including, with Douglas Mao, Bad Modernisms (2006).