Contributors

RAFAEL PÉREZ-TORRES, professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the author of Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture (U of Minnesota P, 2006); To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back: Memories of an East L.A. Outlaw, co-written by Ernie López (U of Texas P, 2005); Movements in Chicano Poetry—Against Myths, Against Margins (Cambridge UP, 1995); and co-editor of The Chicano Studies Reader: An Anthology of Aztlán 1970–2000, with Chon Noriega et al. (2020, 4th ed.; Chicano Studies Research Center Publications). Current work in progress includes a forthcoming article titled “The Chicano Cultural Poetics of Juan Felipe Herrera: The Artist as Shaman and Showman.” He continues working on a book titled “Troubled Representation: Chicana/o/x Literature and Identity.”

REENA SASTRI teaches at the Centre for Open Learning, University of Edinburgh. Her writing has appeared in the Cambridge History of American Poetry, PMLA, and PN Review. She is the author of James Merrill: Knowing Innocence (Routledge, 2007) and is writing a book about learning to speak in contemporary poetry.

TOBY ALTMAN is visiting assistant professor of English at Beloit College. He is the author of the books Discipline Park (Wendy’s Subway, 2022) and Arcadia, Indiana (Plays Inverse, 2017) and has published articles on Renaissance and contemporary avant-garde poetry, material culture, and periodization. He is currently completing a monograph, tentatively titled “The Diachronic Renaissance: Periodization, Poetics, and the Shock of the Old.”

DIANA FILAR, department administrator in the Dean of Arts and Sciences office at Brandeis University, is the author of “Pseudonymic Passing and Ambivalent Whiteness in the Contemporary Polish-American Immigrant Novel” (forthcoming in the Polish Review) and “Introduction: An Adorno for the Twenty-First Century,” co-authored by Caren Irr, Adorno’s “Minima Moralia” in the Twenty-First Century: Fascism, Work, and Ecology, edited by Irr (Bloomsbury, 2022). Current work in progress is a book titled “New Names, New Diasporas: Immigrant Futures in Contemporary American Culture.”

PATRICK WHITMARSH, visiting assistant professor of Environmental Humanities at Wofford College, has published articles on post-World War II literature and technology, science fiction, and the Anthropocene novel. His book, “Writing Our Extinction: Anthropocene Fiction and Vertical Science,” is forthcoming with Stanford University Press.

ANDREW GOLDSTONE is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is the author of Fictions of Autonomy: Modernism from Wilde to de Man (Oxford UP, 2013) and has published articles on modernism, world literature in English, and computational approaches to literary study. He is working on a history of genre fiction, tentatively titled “Wastes of Time: Genre and the Literary Field since 1890.”

JOSÉ FELIPE ALVERGUE, associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, is the author of scenery (Fordham, 2020); precis (Omnidawn Publishing, 2017); and gist : rift : drift : bloom (Further Other Book Works, 2015). He has published articles on poetry and poetics, performance art, politics, and transnationalism.