Siraj Ahmed is Associate Professor in the PhD program in English at the CUNY Graduate Center and in English and Comparative Literature at Lehman College. He is author of Archaeology of Babel: The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities (2018) and The Stillbirth of Capital: Enlightenment Writing and Colonial India (2012), as well as essays in Critical Inquiry, Representations, Cultural Critique, Postcolonial Studies, and The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth‐Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory (2009).
Michelle Balaev is Visiting Assistant Professor at Flinders University. Her research and teaching address topics in twentieth‐century American literature, psychology and literature, ecocriticism, and imperialism. Her publications have appeared in peer‐reviewed journals such as PMLA, American Literature, ISLE, Mosaic, Studies in the Humanities, and Composition Studies. Her books include The Nature of Trauma in American Novels (2012) and Contemporary Approaches to Literary Trauma Theory (2014).
Diana Brydon, FRSC, Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies and Distinguished Professor in the Department of English, Film, and Theatre at the University of Manitoba, is currently investigating transnational literacies, new postcolonialisms, and decolonizing imaginaries in global contexts. She has published on postcolonial cultural and literary studies and how communities are adjusting to globalizing processes. In addition to books on authors Timothy Findley and Christina Stead, she has published the co‐authored Decolonising Fictions (1993) and edited Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies (2000). Co‐edited books include Shakespeare in Canada: A World Elsewhere? (2002), Renegotiating Community: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Contexts (2008) and Crosstalk: Canadian and Global Imaginaries in Dialogue. (2012). Current projects include a co‐edited special journal issue of Canada and Beyond on “Canada, Brazil, and Beyond,” developed out of the SSHRC‐funded “Brazil/Canada Knowledge Exchange” and a co‐edited book, Concurrences: Archives and Voices in Postcolonial Places for Brill.
Rachel Sagner Buurma is Associate Professor of English Literature at Swarthmore College, where she works on the novel, book history, Victorian literature, twentieth‐century Anglo‐American literary criticism, and literary informatics. In‐progress projects relate to the research practices of nineteenth‐century novelists, the history of close reading, and the relation between the novel and social media. With Laura Heffernan, she is writing a new disciplinary history of English literary studies titled “The Teaching Archive.”
William E. Cain is Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of English at Wellesley College. Among his publications is a monograph on American literary and cultural criticism, 1900–45, in The Cambridge History of American Literature, vol. 5 (2003). He is a co‐editor of the Norton Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism (2nd edn., 2010), and, with Sylvan Barnet, he has co‐authored a wide variety of books on literature and composition. His recent publications include essays on Ralph Ellison, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, William Shakespeare, Edith Wharton, and Willa Cather.
Joseph Carroll is Curators’ Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. His books include The Cultural Theory of Matthew Arnold (1983), Wallace Stevens’ Supreme Fiction: A New Romanticism (1988), Evolution and Literary Theory (1994), Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature (2004), Reading Human Nature (2011) and (co‐authored) Graphing Jane Austen: The Evolutionary Basis of Literary Meaning (2012). He produced an edition of On the Origin of Species. His co‐edited volumes include Evolution, Literature, and Film (2010), and Darwin’s Bridge (2016). He edits the journal Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture.
Karen Coats is Professor of English at Illinois State University. Her research relates multiple theoretical perspectives to children’s and young adult literature. She is author of Looking Glasses and Neverlands: Lacan, Desire, and Subjectivity in Children’s Literature (2004), and co‐editor of The Gothic in Children’s Literature: Haunting the Borders (2008); Handbook of Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature (2010); and Mothers in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism (2016).
Thomas Foster is Professor of English at the University of Washington and the author of Souls of Cyberfolk: Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory (2005), as well as numerous articles on science fiction, cyberpunk, and technoculture studies. His current research focuses on race, ethnicity, and technicity, and the status of utopian thought in contemporary culture.
Harold Fromm has a PhD from the University of Wisconsin‐Madison, has taught in half a dozen university English departments, published in journals both literary and scholarly, produced many essays and reviews, and four books, the most well‐known being The Ecocriticism Reader (1996, co‐edited with Cheryll Glotfelty), a pioneering collection of representative specimens of environmental writing. In recent years he has written on science subjects, particularly Darwinian, evolutionary, and philosophic, as well as music.
Margaret Galvan is an Assistant Professor of visual rhetoric in the Department of English at the University of Florida. She received her PhD in English with a film studies certificate from The Graduate Center, CUNY, in 2016. She is currently at work on a book, In Visible Archives of the 1980s, under contract with the University of Minnesota Press, which traces a genealogy of queer theory in 1980s feminism through representations of sexuality in visual culture.
Glen Robert Gill is Associate Professor of Humanities at Montclair State University. He is the author of Northrop Frye and the Phenomenology of Myth (2006) and the editor of Northrop Frye on Twentieth‐Century Literature for The Collected Works of Northrop Frye (2010). He has also published essays on Northrop Frye, C. G. Jung, T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, and J. R. R. Tolkien. He is currently editing the forthcoming Cultural History of Myth in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury, 2019).
Matthew K. Gold is Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), where he serves as Advisor to the Provost for Digital Initiatives, Director of the CUNY Academic Commons, and Director of the GC Digital Scholarship Lab. He edited Debates in the Digital Humanities (2012) and recently co‐edited, with Lauren F. Klein, Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016. He is Vice President/President‐Elect of the Association for Computers and the Humanities.
David Gorman is Associate Professor of English at Northern Illinois University. He has published in various formats on the history and theory of literary study, including essays, reviews, bibliographies, translations, and entries in reference works. His work has appeared in Poetics Today, Modern Literature Quarterly, Narrative, and Style (of which he was the editor). His bibliography of Russian Formalism in English appeared in Style 26 (1992), with a supplement in Style 29 (1995).
Marina Grishakova is Professor of Literary Theory at the University of Tartu (Estonia). She is the author of The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov’s Fiction: Narrative Strategies and Cultural Frames (2006), co‐editor of Intermediality and Storytelling (with M.‐L. Ryan, 2010) and Theoretical Schools and Circles in the Twentieth‐Century Humanities (with S. Salupere, 2015), contributor to international volumes, such as Strange Voices in Narrative Fiction (2011), Literature, History and Cognition (2014) and many others.
John Guillory is Julius Silver Professor of English at New York University. He is the author of Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation (1993) and other articles on the history of literary study and on Renaissance literature. He is currently at work on a book entitled “Close Reading: From Technique to Technology in Anglo‐American Criticism.”
James A. W. Heffernan, Professor of English Emeritus at Dartmouth College, has published widely on the relations between literature and visual art. His books include The Re‐Creation of Landscape: A Study of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Constable, and Turner (1985), Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery (1993), Cultivating Picturacy: Visual Art and Verbal Interventions (2006), and Hospitality and Treachery in Western Literature (2104). He is also founding editor of Review 19.
Robert Kaufman is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley; he also teaches in, and is former co‐director of, the university’s interdisciplinary Program in Critical Theory. His research and teaching emphasize twentieth‐ to twenty‐first‐century American poetry in dialogue with Latin American, German, French, and British poetry; romantic and nineteenth‐century poetry and poetics; philosophical aesthetics, literary theory, and history of criticism (especially since Kant and romanticism); and Frankfurt School Critical Theory and the arts.
Suzanne Keen writes about narrative empathy. In addition to articles addressing the topic, her books include Empathy and the Novel (2007), Thomas Hardy’s Brains (2014), and Narrative Form: Revised and Expanded 2nd edition (2015). She is co‐editor of Contemporary Women's Writing, and has guest edited special issues of Poetics Today and Style. She serves as Thomas H. Broadus Professor of English and Dean of the College at Washington and Lee University.
Christopher Krentz is Associate Professor of English and of American Sign Language at the University of Virginia. He is the author of A Mighty Change: An Anthology of Deaf American Writing 1816–1864 (2000), Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth‐Century American Literature (2007), and articles on disability in literature and culture.
Steven F. Kruger is Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. His books include Dreaming in the Middle Ages (1992), AIDS Narratives: Gender and Sexuality, Fiction and Science (1996), Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Angels in America (1997, co‐edited with Deborah R. Geis), Queering the Middle Ages (2001, co‐edited with Glenn Burger), and The Spectral Jew: Conversion and Embodiment in Medieval Europe (2006).
David S. Miall is Emeritus Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. He is interested in British Romantic literature, especially the psychological insights of Wordsworth and Coleridge. He also works across the boundaries of literature and psychology, studying processes of mind and feeling that help us understand what makes literary reading distinctively literary. He is the author of Literary Reading: Empirical and Theoretical Studies (New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. 2006); online publications are available at http://www.ualberta.ca/~dmiall.
Warren Montag is the Brown Family Professor of European Literature at Occidental College, Los Angeles. His most recent works include Althusser and his Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual War (2013) and (with Mike Hill) The Other Adam Smith (2014).
Jeffrey T. Nealon is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Philosophy at Penn State University. His most recent books are Foucault Beyond Foucault: Power and Its Intensifications since 1984 (2008), Post‐Postmodernism; Or, The Cultural Logic of Just‐in‐Time Capitalism (2012), and Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetable Life (2016).
Christopher Norris is Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at Cardiff University in Wales. He has published more than forty books on topics in philosophy, literary theory, musicology and the history of ideas, including most recently Badiou’s Being and Event, Philosophy Outside‐In, and Deconstruction After All. A book of poems, The Cardinal's Dog, came out in 2013 and two further collections of verse—For the Tempus‐Fugitives (2017) and The Winnowing Fan (2017).
Daniel T. O’Hara, Professor of English and Humanities at Temple University, is the author of nine books, including Virginia Woolf and the Modern Sublime (2015). He is also the editor or co‐editor of six other books, including with Donald E. Pease and Michelle Martin, A William V. Spanos Reader: Humanistic Criticism and the Secular Imperative (2015). Currently, he is completing a book manuscript “The Revival of Roland Barthes: Literature Reborn.”
Neema Parvini is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Surrey. He is the author of five books: Shakespeare's History Plays: Rethinking Historicism (2012); Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism (2012); Shakespeare and Cognition: Thinking Fast and Slow through Character (2015); Shakespeare and New Historicism Theory (2017); and Shakespeare's Moral Compass: Ethical Thinking in His Plays (forthcoming 2018).
James Braxton Peterson is the Director of Africana Studies and Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University. He is the author of several books, The Hip Hop Underground and African American Culture (2014), Prison Industrial Complex for Beginners (2016), and Hip Hop Headphones: A Scholar’s Critical Playlist (2016). Peterson hosts “The Remix” on Philadelphia’s NPR affiliate, WHYY. “The Remix” is a podcast that engages issues at the intersection of race, politics, and popular culture.
James Phelan, Distinguished University Professor of English at Ohio State University, is the editor of Narrative and co‐editor of the Ohio State University Press series on the Theory and Interpretation of Narrative. He has devoted much of his own scholarship to developing a rhetorical theory of narrative, and he has presented his most recent results in Reading the American Novel, 1920–2010 (2014) and Somebody Telling Somebody Else: A Rhetorical Poetics of Narrative (2017).
Peter J. Rabinowitz, Professor of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College, divides his time between narrative theory and music criticism. His works include Before Reading, Authorizing Readers (with Michael W. Smith), and Narrative Theory (with David Herman, James Phelan, Brian Richardson, and Robyn Warhol). He is program annotator for Symphoria and Contributing Editor of Fanfare.
David H. Richter is Professor of English at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where he has taught eighteenth‐century studies and literary theory since 1970. Richter’s publications include Fable’s End (on closure in didactic novels) and The Progress of Romance (on the problematic of literary history), along with influential theory textbooks The Critical Tradition and Falling into Theory. His most recent book is Reading the Eighteenth‐Century Novel (2017). Richter also publishes on movies, crime fiction, and biblical narrative, and is planning a monograph on the re‐presentation of paintings in narrative cinema.
Ron Scapp is the founding director of the Graduate Program of Urban and Multicultural Education at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in the Bronx where he is professor of humanities and teacher education. He is the immediate past‐President of the National Association for Ethnic Studies (2011–15), and is the editor of the journal Ethnic Studies Review. He is also a member of the International Committee for Kappa Delta Pi. He has been a long‐time fellow at the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has written and edited numerous books and articles on a variety of topics—from popular culture to education, from social and political philosophy to art criticism. He was a visiting scholar at Teachers College, Columbia University (2014–15). His most recent book is Reclaiming Education: Moving Beyond the Culture of Reform (2016).
Alan D. Schrift is F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy at Grinnell College (USA). In addition to over eighty published articles or book chapters on Nietzsche and French and German twentieth‐century philosophy, he is the author of Twentieth‐Century French Philosophy (2006), Nietzsche’s French Legacy (1995), and Nietzsche and the Question of Interpretation: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction (1990). He has also edited seventeen books, including the eight‐volume History of Continental Philosophy (2010), The Logic of the Gift (1997), and most recently Transcendence and the Concrete: Selected Writings of Jean Wahl (2016). He continues as General Editor of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, the Stanford University Press translation of Nietzsche’s Kritische Studienausgabe.
Paul Smith teaches in the Cultural Studies PhD program at George Mason University, and is President of the Cultural Studies Association (2016–18). He is the author of Discerning the Subject (1988), Millennial Dreams: Culture and Capital in the North (1997), and Primitive America: The Ideology of Capitalist Democracy (2007). Smith has also edited Men in Feminism (1987, with Alice Jardine), Boys: Masculinities in Contemporary Culture (1996), and The Renewal of Cultural Studies (2011). He is currently working on a book about deglobalization.
G. Gabrielle Starr is Professor of English and President of Pomona College. She is author of two books, Lyric Generations (2004) and Feeling Beauty (2013). Her most recent work has focused on aesthetics, integrating humanist forms of critique with experimentation in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience. She has been the recipient of a New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation and was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2015.
Michael Toolan is Professor of English Language in the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics in the University of Birmingham, UK. Since 2002 he has been editor of the Journal of Literary Semantics, and for 2016–18 is chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Association. He has published many books and articles on literary stylistics, narrative, and linguistics, and narratives, including The Stylistics of Fiction (1988), Total Speech: An Integrational Linguistic Approach to Language (1996), Language in Literature (1998), and Narrative: A Critical Linguistic Introduction (2nd edn, 2001). His most recent book is Making Sense with Narrative Text: Situation, Repetition, and Picturing in the Reading of Short Stories (2016).
Thomas Carl Wall is currently Chair of the English Department at Taipei Tech in Taiwan where he teaches a variety of literature, history, and cinema courses. He has published on Levinas, Blanchot, and Agamben in his Radical Passivity (1999), has contributed a chapter to the volume Politics, Metaphysics, and Death (2005), a chapter to Terrence Malick: Film and Philosophy, and has published essays on Deleuze’s film books, Harmony Korine’s film Gummo, and other topics. He is currently working on the question of language in Heidegger and Agamben.
Robyn Warhol is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at the Ohio State University, where she is Chair of the Department of English and a core faculty member of Project Narrative. She is the creator of victorianserialnovels.org, “Reading Like a Victorian,” a website enabling readers to experience installments of serialized Victorian novels synchronically. Her most recent publications include Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions, co‐edited by Susan S. Lanser (Honorable Mention for the Perkins Prize in Narrative, 2015) and Love Among the Archives: Writing the Lives of George Scharf, Victorian Bachelor, co‐authored with Helena Michie (NAVSA Best Book of the Year, 2015). She is also co‐author of Narrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates (2012) and co‐editor of Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative Theories (2017).