Contributors

Stephanie Burt is the Donald and Katherine Loker Professor of English at Harvard University and the author of We Are Mermaids (Graywolf Press, 2022), After Callimachus (Princeton UP, 2020), and Don’t Read Poetry: A Book about How to Read Poems (Basic Books, 2019). Her work has appeared in American Literary History, Essays in Criticism, London Review of Books, The Nation, New Literary History, the New York Times Book Review, Rain Taxi, and Yale Review as well as in prior issues of Contemporary Literature. Stephanie’s newest book, 50 Super Gay Poems!!! And How to Read Them, will appear in 2025 from Harvard University Press.

Henry Ivry is a lecturer in twentieth- and twenty-first century literature at the University of Glasgow and is the author of Transscalar Critique: Climate, Blackness, Crisis (Edinburgh UP, 2023). Previous journal articles appear in Modern Fiction Studies, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, and English Literary History. His current working manuscript is tentatively titled “Incommensurate Repair: Insurgency, Infrastructure and the African American Imaginary.”

Julia C. Obert is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Wyoming and the author of The Making and Unmaking of Colonial Cities: Urban Planning, Imperial Power, and the Improvisational Itineraries of the Poor (Oxford UP, 2023) and Postcolonial Overtures: The Politics of Sound in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry (Syracuse UP, 2015). Her work has also appeared as book chapters and in several journals, including Textual Practice, Irish Studies Review, Scottish Literary Review, Etudes Irlandaises, Postmodern Culture, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, and New Hibernia Review, among others. Julia is currently writing two books tentatively titled “Irish Joy: Resistant Affects in Contemporary Irish Literature” and “Vulnerable Soundscapes: Archives of Climate Grief.”

Joshua Pederson is an associate professor of humanities at Boston University and the author of Sin Sick: Moral Injury in War and Literature (Cornell UP, 2021) and The Forsaken Son: Child Murder and Atonement in Modern American Fiction (Northwestern UP, 2016). He has also published articles in Religion and Literature, Narrative, Contemporary Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, and Religion and the Arts.

Molly Slavin is an assistant professor of English at Clark Atlanta University and the author of Criminal Cities: The Postcolonial Novel and Cathartic Crime (U of Virginia P, 2023). Previous articles are published in The Global South, Clues: A Journal of Detection, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Studies in Crime Writing, C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings, and Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association. She is currently writing a book on traffic violence in Anglophone fiction.

Timothy Yu is the Martha Meier Renk-Bascom Professor of Poetry and a professor of English and Asian American studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the executive editor of Contemporary Literature and the author of Diasporic Poetics: Asian Writing in the United States, Canada, and Australia (Cambridge UP, 2021); 100 Chinese Silences (Les Figues Press, 2016); and Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965 (Stanford UP, 2009). Tim is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Poetry (Cambridge UP) and Nests and Strangers: On Asian American Women Poets (Kelsey Street Press).