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Mary Esteve

Mary Esteve teaches undergraduate and M.A. courses in American literature and culture at Concordia University in Montreal. She is the author of two monographs, Incremental Realism: Postwar American Fiction, Happiness, and Welfare-State Liberalism (Stanford, 2021) and The Aesthetics and Politics

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Paul J. Edwards

Paul J. Edwards is an assistant professor of English at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and a book reviews editor for The Black Scholar. He is currently a Fellow at the Center for the Ballet and the Arts at

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Chiyuma Elliott

Chiyuma Elliott is an associate professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her scholarly work focuses on poetry and the Harlem Renaissance. A former Stegner Fellow, Chiyuma has received fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, Cave

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David J. Vázquez

David J. Vázquez is an associate professor of Literature and Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies at American University in Washington, DC. He is the author of Triangulations: Narrative Strategies for Navigating Latino Identity (Minnesota University Press 2011) and co-editor

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Rebekah Sheldon

Rebekah Sheldon is an associate professor of English at Indiana University Bloomington and the author of The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrophe, which received an Honorary Mention for the 2016 Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies award from

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Alisha Gaines

Alisha Gaines is the Timothy Gannon Associate Professor of English at Florida State University. Her first manuscript, Black for a Day: Fantasies of Race and Empathy, was published with University of North Carolina Press (Spring 2017). The project rethinks the

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Douglas Jones

Douglas Jones is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University, where he is also Assistant Dean of Humanities. His most recent book is the co-edited volume Race and Performance after Repetition (Duke University Press 2020).

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Greta LaFleur

Greta LaFleur is an associate professor of American Studies at Yale University. Her research and teaching focus on early North American literary and cultural studies, the history of science, the history of race, the history and historiography of sexuality, and

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Lisi Schoenbach

Lisi Schoenbach is an associate professor of English at the University of Tennessee, where she teaches and works on twentieth-century literature and philosophy, with a particular focus on modernism, pragmatism, and political theory. She is the author of Pragmatic Modernism (Oxford,

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Christine Holbo

Christine Holbo is an associate professor at Arizona State University, where she offers classes on literary realism, the transatlantic tradition of the novel, sentimentalism and affect theory, protomodernisms, regionalisms, little magazines, Pragmatism, and other American errors. She is the author

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