Contributors

Jordan Burke is an independent scholar. He is writing a book on scholar poets based on research he completed as the Edgar F. Shannon Fellow at the University of Virginia. His work is published or is forthcoming in PMLA, Studies in Romanticism, and Religion and Literature as well as in several anthologies.

Angelica De Vido is a fellow at the University of Oxford’s Rothermere American Institute, where she researches American literature and the history of feminist activism. Her book Girlhood in the Contemporary American Novel is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press. She has published a range of articles and essays on gender and adolescence in contemporary American literature and film and is writing a book that examines the relationship between women’s popular fiction and feminist activism in New York City after 1950.

Madhu Dubey is a professor of English and Black studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is the author of Black Women Novelists and the Nationalist Aesthetic (Indiana UP, 1994) and Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism (U Chicago P, 2003). She has written articles on contemporary American and African American literature and culture, postmodernism, and race and speculative fiction.

Sam Waterman is an assistant professor in English at Northeastern University London. His article “Schlegel Capitalism: E. M. Forster and the Cultural Form of Modernist Adventure” was published in Modernism/Modernity in 2022, and he is writing a book titled “After Men: Modernist Adventure and the Regendering of Work.”

C. S. Bhagya is a lecturer (Education) in English at Brunel University London. Her academic work is published or is forthcoming in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Wasafiri, Oxford Research in English, Postcolonial Text, and The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures. Her pedagogy-focused writing can be found (or will be appearing) in the English Review magazine, Teaching South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature (MLA Options for Teaching series), and the open educational resource hub Writers Make Worlds. She is writing a monograph based on her doctoral work, tentatively titled “Tropes of Exception: Representations of the Emergency (1975–77) in Indian Literature.”