Contributors

Brian Croxall is an associate research professor in the Office of Digital Humanities at Brigham Young University and the coeditor of What We Teach When We Teach DH: Digital Humanities in the Classroom (U of Minnesota P, 2023) and Like Clockwork: Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures (U of Minnesota P, 2016). His recent publications include articles in American Imago: Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences and Syllabus and chapters in The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities (Bloomsbury, 2022) and Hemingway in the Digital Age: Reflections on Teaching, Reading, and Understanding (Kent State UP, 2019). Brian is currently writing for a new coedited volume, “Teaching Text Encoding.”

Michael Dowdy is a professor of English at Villanova University and the author of Tell Me about Your Bad Guys (U of Nebraska P, forthcoming 2025), Poetics of Social Engagement (Wesleyan UP, 2018), Urbilly (winner of the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, 2017), and Broken Souths: Latina/o Poetic Responses to Neoliberalism and Globalization (U of Arizona P, 2013). He has also published articles and essays in American Poetry Review, Aztlán, Callaloo, College Literature, Hispanic Review, MELUS, and Poetry, among others. Michael is currently writing a book on how Latinx cultures are transforming Appalachia.

Jens Elze is an assistant professor of English literature at the University of Göttingen and the author of Realism: Aesthetics, Experiments, Politics (Bloomsbury, 2022) and Postcolonial Modernism and the Picaresque Novel: Literatures of Precarity (Palgrave, 2017). He has also published articles on postcolonial theory and politics in Interdisciplinary Science Review and Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. Jens is currently writing a monograph on the interrelations between literary and infrastructural forms.

Daria Goncharova is an assistant professor of English at Davis & Elkins College. She has published articles in Literature/Film Quarterly and Adaptation, with another one scheduled to appear in New Review of Film and Television Studies in 2025. Daria also contributed a chapter to the edited volume Post45 vs. The World: Global Perspectives on Literature and the Contemporary (Vernon Press, 2022).

McKinsey Kemeny is an editorial assistant at Church Historian’s Press and has published an article, “On Translation: An Application of Digital Humanities to the Translation of Friedrich Ruckert’s Poetry,” in the Brigham Young University student journal, Schwa: Language and Linguistics.

Hannah Loeb is a Jefferson Fellow and PhD candidate in the English department at the University of Virginia. She has published a chapbook of poetry, Meats I Remember (L + S Press, 2024), and an article about Allen Ginsberg’s “Kaddish” in Penn State UP’s journal Style.

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).