Contributors

Charlie Ericson is a PhD candidate at Case Western Reserve University and the author of articles in the journals Renaissance Drama and the James Joyce Literary Supplement. He is currently writing his dissertation, “What Do You Mean? 20th-Century Fictions and Literary Knowledge.”

Sam Ladkin is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Sussex and the author of Perfectly Disgraceful: Frank O’Hara’s New York School and Mid-century Mannerism (Oxford UP, 2024). He is also the coeditor, with Sam Roberts, of So Much for Life: Selected Poems of Mark Hyatt (Nightboat, 2023) and the coeditor, with Robin Purves, of Complicities: British Poetry 1945–2007 (Litteraria Pragensia, 2007) and “The Darkness Surrounds Us”: American Poetry (Centre for the History of Ideas in Scotland, 2004). Sam’s essays have appeared in Textual Practice and Angelaki.

Corinna Norrick-Rühl is a professor of book studies at the University of Münster and the author of Book Clubs and Book Commerce (Cambridge UP, 2019) and coauthor, with Caroline Koegler, of Are Books Still Different? Literature as Culture and Commodity in a Digital Age (Cambridge UP, 2023). She is the coeditor, with Shafquat Towheed, of Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Palgrave, 2022) and coedited, with Tim Lanzendörfer, The Novel as Network: Forms, Ideas, Commodities (Palgrave, 2020). Corinna has also published in the European Journal of American Studies, Monatshefte, and Authorship and is currently writing a book with Rachel Noorda on methods in publishing and book studies.

Alexander Starre is an assistant professor of American studies at Freie Universität, Berlin, and the author of Metamedia: American Book Fictions and Literary Print Culture after Digitization (U of Iowa P, 2015). He has also published in the journals College Literature, Amerikastudien/American Studies, Anglia, and Ecozon@ on contemporary and late nineteenth- /early twentieth-century US literature, literary institutions, knowledge production, and media theory. Alexander is currently writing a book on knowledge institutions and epistemic styles in the United States around 1900.

Matt Prout is a postdoctoral fellow at University College Dublin and the author of David Foster Wallace and the Question of Scepticism (Edinburgh UP, 2024). He has also published articles in the Journal of Modern Literature and Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. Matt is currently working on a project about the relationship between intellectual and practical activity in contemporary works of autofiction and autotheory.

Martha Swift is a postdoctoral fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, and the author of two chapters on autofiction in Experimental Life Writing Today, edited by Drag Wojciech and Vanessa Guignery (Bloomsbury, 2025), and Narrative Co-Construction: Author-Audience Interactions and Narrative Theory, edited by Malcah Effron et al. (Ohio State UP, forthcoming). She is currently writing an essay on US (trans)national identity and a monograph on autofiction, diasporic authorship, and world literature.

Chloe Ashbridge is a lecturer in modern and contemporary literature at Newcastle University. In addition to her published articles in English: The Journal of the English Association, the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, the Cambridge Journal of Education, and the Open Library of Humanities, she has contributed chapters to Sarah Hall: Critical Essays, edited by Alexander Beaumont and Elke D’Hoker (Gylphi, 2022), and Locating Classed Subjectivities: Intersections of Space and Working-Class Life in Nineteenth-, Twentieth-, and Twenty-First-Century British Writing, edited by Simon Lee (Routledge, 2022). Chloe is currently writing a monograph titled “Postcolonial North: Regional Writing and the Literary Economy of Black Britain” (under contract with Edinburgh UP).

Asha Rogers is an associate professor of contemporary literature at the University of Birmingham and the author of State Sponsored Literature: Britain and Cultural Diversity after 1945 (Oxford UP, 2020). She is also a coeditor, with Elleke Boehmer et al., of The Global Histories of Books: Methods and Practices (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Recent articles address literature, diversity, and education in Literature, Critique and Empire Today (formerly the Journal of Commonwealth Literature) and examine book history methods and world literary circulation in the Journal of World Literature and the Cambridge Quarterly. Asha’s next project considers alternative histories of postcolonial debates on language diversity.