Gert Buelens is Professor of English at Ghent University, where he directs a long-term research project on the concept of authorship, and chairs the Department of Literary Studies. He edits the e-journal Authorship, is the author of some 60 essays in collections and journals, and has, most recently, co-edited The Catastrophic Imperative: Subjectivity, Time and Memory in Contemporary Thought (with Dominiek Hoens and Sigi Jöttkandt). He is currently working on two volumes for the CUP edition of Henry James’s fiction.
Stef Craps teaches English at Ghent University, Belgium, where he also directs the Centre for Literature and Trauma. He is the author of Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Trauma and Ethics in the Novels of Graham Swift: No Short-Cuts to Salvation (Sussex Academic Press, 2005), and has guest-edited special issues of Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts (2011; with Michael Rothberg) and Studies in the Novel (2008; with Gert Buelens) on the topics of, respectively, transcultural negotiations of Holocaust memory and postcolonial trauma novels. His next book project is an introductory guide to the concept of trauma for Routledge’s New Critical Idiom series.
Sam Durrant is Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature at Leeds University. His first monograph Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning: J. M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris and Toni Morrison was published by State University of New York Press in 2004. He co-edited Essays in Migratory Aesthetics with Catherine Lord (Rodopi, 2007) and has published numerous articles on postcolonial literature and aspects of critical theory. His current monograph, due from Routledge in 2014, is entitled Mourning and Postapartheid Literature: Reconciliation and its Discontents.
Robert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. He works on contemporary literature and literary theory, contemporary philosophy and on Holocaust and Genocide studies. He is the author of five books, including The Holocaust and the Postmodern (2004) and Contemporary Fiction (2013), and the editor or co-editor of six more. His work has been translated into five languages.
Jenny Edkins is Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University; her most recent books are Missing: Persons and Politics (Cornell, 2011) and Trauma and the Memory of Politics (Cambridge, 2003). She is editor with Maja Zehfuss of the textbook Global Politics: A New Introduction, and series editor with Nick Vaughan-Williams of the Routledge Interventions book series.
Nouri Gana is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published numerous articles and chapters on the literatures and cultures of the Arab world and its diasporas in such scholarly venues as Comparative Literature Studies, PMLA, Public Culture and Social Text. He has also contributed op-eds to such magazines and international newspapers as The Guardian, El Pais, The Electronic Intifada, Jadaliyya and CounterPunch. Author of Signifying Loss: Towards a Poetics of Narrative Mourning (Bucknell UP, 2011), he is currently completing a book manuscript on the politics of melancholia in the Arab world and another on the cultural politics of the Tunisia revolution. In addition, he is the editor of The Tunisian Revolution: Contexts, Architects, Prospects and of The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English (Edinburgh UP, 2013).
Ananya Jahanara Kabir is Professor of English Literature at King’s College London. She is the author of Territory of Desire: Representing Kashmir (2009) and Partition’s Post-Amnesias: 1947, 1971 and Modern South Asia (2013). From 2013 to 2018 she will lead a project funded by a European Research Council Advanced Grant, titled Modern Moves: Kinetic Transnationalism and Afro-Diasporic Rhythm Cultures.
Dominick LaCapra is Emeritus Professor of History and Comparative Literature and Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies at Cornell University. He is the editor of two books and the author of fourteen, including Writing History, Writing Trauma, History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory, History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence, and History, Literature, Critical Theory.
Roger Luckhurst is Professor of Modern Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. He published The Mummy’s Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy (Oxford) in 2012 and The Shining for the BFI Classics series in 2013.
Michael Rothberg is Professor of English and Conrad Humanities Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is also Director of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies Initiative. Affiliated with the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and the Programs in Comparative Literature and Jewish Culture and Society, Rothberg works in the fields of critical theory and cultural studies, Holocaust studies, postcolonial studies and contemporary literatures. His latest book is Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (2009), published by Stanford University Press in its Cultural Memory in the Present series. He is also the author of Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation (2000) and co-editor with Neil Levi of The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings (2003).
Lyndsey Stonebridge is Professor of Literature and Critical Theory at the University of East Anglia. She is the author, most recently, of The Judicial Imagination: Writing After Nuremberg (2011). Other publications include: The Writing of Anxiety (2007), The Destructive Element: British Psychoanalysis and Modernism(1998), British Fiction after Modernism: The Novel at Mid-Century, edited with Marina MacKay (2007), and Reading Melanie Klein, edited with John Phillips (1998). She is currently working on a new project, Refugee Writing: States, Statelessness and Modern Literature.
Pieter Vermeulen is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Stockholm University. He works in the fields of critical theory, the contemporary novel, and memory studies. His writing has appeared or will appear in journals such as Arcadia, Criticism, Critique, Journal of Modern Literature, Memory Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, Mosaic, Studies in the Novel, and Textual Practice. His book Romanticism after the Holocaust was republished in paperback by Continuum/Bloomsbury in 2012. He is currently at work on a book-length study of the paradoxical productivity of early-twenty-first century discourses of the end of the novel.