Contributors

Anna Borgarello is a PhD candidate in Italian and a core curriculum preceptor at Columbia University. Her forthcoming dissertation is titled “Bifocal Narratives: The Self and the Other in Contemporary Literature.” She is the editor, with Jennifer Burns, Michele Maiolani, and Luigi Pinton, of “Narratives Beyond the Self: Relationality in Contemporary Italian Literature,” which is scheduled for publication in 2024 as a special issue of The Italianist.

Tobias Huttner is an upper-school English teacher who earned his PhD in 2022. His dissertation examines the use of minor, neglected, and hybrid genres in North American poetry, arguing for their significance as a means of mediating the experience of capitalist social contradiction in the twenty-first century. He has published an article in ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture and is writing a book titled “On Occasion: American Poetry at the Margins of the Wage.”

Kelly Roberts is a David Bartholomae Postdoctoral Lecturer in Writing at Rutgers University. She has written articles for Public Books, Post45, and Hazlitt.

Emmett Stinson is a lecturer in literary cultures at the University of Tasmania and the chief investigator with the Australia Research Council’s Discovery Project Grant “New Tastemakers and Australia’s Post-Digital Literary Culture.” He is the author of Satirizing Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2017) and a coauthor, with Richard Pennell and Pam Pryde, of Banning Islamic Books in Australia (Melbourne UP, 2011). Edited collections include The Return of Print? Contemporary Australian Publishing (Monash UP, 2016). He has also published articles in Textual Practice, Australian Humanities Review, and Affirmations: Of the Modern and has a book titled “Gerald Murnane’s Late Novels” under contract with Melbourne UP.

Chih-ming Wang is an associate research fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He is the author of Rearticulation: Trajectories of Foreign Literature Studies in Taiwan (Linking, 2021; in Chinese) and Transpacific Articulations: Student Migration and the Remaking of Asian America (U of Hawaii P, 2013). Coedited collections include Precarious Belongings: Affection and Nationalism in Asia, with Daniel PS Goh (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2017), and “The Chinese Factor: Reorienting Global Imaginaries in American Studies,” with Yu-Fang Cho (in a special issue of American Quarterly, 2017). He has also published articles in Cultural Studies, Southeast Asia Review of English, and Geopolitics and is writing a book titled “Multiple Returns: Asian American Literature and Post/Cold War Entanglements.”

Nasia Anam is the Joe Crowley Distinguished Professor of the Humanities and an assistant professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research focuses on migration and mobility in literature, examining portrayals of displaced populations. She has published articles on global and Anglophone literature in Interventions and on migrant dystopia and representation in ASAP/Journal, Journal of Narrative Theory, PMLA, Verge, and the Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Migration.

Alice Bennett is a senior lecturer in English literature at Liverpool Hope University and the deputy editor of C21 Literature, the open access journal of the British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies. She is the author of Alarm (Bloomsbury, 2022), Contemporary Fictions of Attention: Reading and Distraction in the Twenty-First Century (Bloomsbury, 2018), and Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction (Palgrave, 2012). She has also published articles in Textual Practice, MFS, Critique, and Contemporary Women’s Writing and is currently writing a short story on Ali Smith and twee aesthetics.