Contributors

Chijioke K. Onah is a PhD candidate at Cornell University and the author of articles in Postcolonial Text, African Literature Today, African Studies Review, and the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. He is the editor, with Pavan Malreddy, of a special issue of Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society and the editor of an upcoming special issue of The Global South (scheduled for publication in 2026 by Indiana UP). Chijioke is a recipient of the inaugural Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship and is currently writing his dissertation.

Paul Dawson is an associate professor at the University of New South Wales and the author of The Story of Fictional Truth: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel (Ohio State UP, 2023), The Return of the Omniscient Narrator: Authorship and Authority in Twenty-First Century Fiction (Ohio State UP, 2013), and Creative Writing and the New Humanities (Routledge, 2005). In addition, he has published two books of poetry: Lines of Desire (Puncher and Wattmann, 2024) and Imagining Winter (Interactive Press, 2006). Paul is also the editor, with Maria Mäkelä, of The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory (Routledge, 2023) and has published several articles on the narrative voice, thought representation, and theories of fictionality in English Literary History (ELH), Poetics Today, Studies in the Novel, Style, and Narrative, among others.

Ryan Hibbett is an associate professor at Northern Illinois University. He is the editor of Lit-Rock: Literary Capital in Popular Culture (Bloomsbury, 2022) and the author of Philip Larkin, Popular Culture, and the English Individual (Lexington Books, 2019). He has also published articles in Studies in Popular Culture, the Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies, Cambridge Quarterly, the Journal of Popular Music Studies, Contemporary Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Popular Music and Society, and Literature and Theology. Ryan is currently writing a monograph titled “Metaverse: Poetry and Poets in Mediation.”

Sam Weselowski completed his PhD in English and comparative literary studies at the University of Warwick, where he is now an Early Career Fellow with the Institute of Advanced Study. His critical writing has appeared in Canadian Literature, Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics and, with Myka Tucker-Abramson, The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English (Routledge, 2023). Sam is a recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship Award.

Michael Gavin is an associate professor at the University of South Carolina and the author of Literary Mathematics: Quantitative Theory for Textual Studies (Stanford UP, 2023) and The Invention of English Criticism (Cambridge UP, 2015). He has also published articles on computational literary studies, British and global literature, and comparative linguistics in the Journal of Cultural Analytics, Critical Inquiry, and Literary. Michael is currently editing a collection, with Stanley Dubinsky and Harvey Starr, for the Cambridge Handbook of Language and Political Conflict, and writing, with Eric Gidal, a book on the long history of geoinformatics titled “Textual Ecologies.”

Daniel Ryan Morse is an associate professor of English and the director of Core Humanities at the University of Nevada–Reno. He is the author of Radio Empire: The BBC’s Eastern Service and the Emergence of the Global Anglophone Novel (Columbia UP, 2020) and has published articles on radio, literature, and empire in The Global South, Modernist Cultures, and the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, among others. Daniel is currently writing a book on audio adaptations of novels titled “Sounds Literary.”