Contributors

Anne Brewster is an honorary associate professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is the author of Literary Formations: Postcolonialism, Nationalism, Globalism (Melbourne UP, 1995); Reading Aboriginal Women’s Autobiography (Oxford UP and Sydney UP, 1996); and Giving This Country a Memory: Contemporary Aboriginal Voices of Australia (Cambria P, 2015). She is a co-editor, with Angeline O’Neill and Rosemary Van Den Berg, of Those Who Remain Will Always Remember: An Anthology of Aboriginal Writing (Fremantle Arts Centre P, 2000) and a co-author, with Sue Kossew, of Rethinking the Victim: Gender and Violence in Contemporary Australian Women’s Writing (Routledge, 2019). She has written articles on Australian Indigenous literature, Whiteness studies, Australian women’s writing, and Indigenous women’s life writing; she is writing a book, co-authored with Sue Kossew, titled “Australian Women Writing About War.”

Ben Hickman is a senior lecturer in modern literature at the University of Kent and the author of John Ashbery and English Poetry (Edinburgh UP, 2012) and Crisis and the US Avant-Garde: Poetry and Real Politics (Edinburgh UP, 2015). His Labour and American Culture: 1930–2020 will be published by Palgrave in 2023.

John Macintosh is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has published articles on novelistic representations of precarious labor and service work. He is writing a book titled “Reading for Labor: Service Work and the Contemporary Novel.”

Pieter Vermeulen is an associate professor of American and comparative literature at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is the author of Contemporary Literature and the End of the Novel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Literature and the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2020). He is a co-editor, with Stefan Helgesson, of Institutions of World Literature: Writing, Translation, Markets (Routledge, 2015) and a co-editor, with Lucy Bond and Stef Craps, of Memory Unbound: Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies (Berghahn, 2016). He currently directs two research projects: one on the posthumous world literary career of James Baldwin and the other, with Tom Toremans, on constellations of transnational mobility and human rights in expatriate African American writing. His current book project investigates the articulation of value in twenty-first-century literature.

Meg Wesling is an associate professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Empire’s Proxy: American Literature and US Imperialism in the Philippines (NYU P, 2011) as well as articles on twentieth-century American literature, queer theory and Marxist critique, neocolonialism and the family, gender and Marxist theories of value, marriage law and property rights, and the political economy of gender. She is writing two books: “Gender as Labor: Popular Culture and the Political Economy of Gender,” which theorizes gender as a form of compulsory labor, and “Reading Like a Lesbian,” which traces how lesbian identity emerged in texts from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Sarah Dimick is an assistant professor of English at Harvard University. Her research, based in Anglophone literatures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focuses on literary portrayals of climate change and environmental justice. Her first book, Unseasonable: Climate Arrhythmias in Global Literatures, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press in 2024. Other writings appear, or are forthcoming, in Contemporary Literature, ISLE, Mosaic, and Post45: Contemporaries.

Justin L. Mann is an assistant professor of English and African American Studies at Northwestern University and a research fellow in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. He has published articles on Blackness and biosecurity in Colson Whitehead’s novel Zone One as well as on survival and reproduction in Octavia E. Butler’s Dawn. He is writing a book titled “Breaking the World: Black Insecurity after the New World Order.”