Contributors

Lucy Biederman is an instructor in Illinois Humanities’s Odyssey Project and the author of The Walmart Book of the Dead (Vine Leaves Press, 2017). Her journal articles appear in The Emily Dickinson Journal, Women’s Studies, The Henry James Review, and Studies in Literary Imagination. Lucy is currently working on a piece about the American writer David Foster Wallace.

Monika Kaup is a professor at the University of Washington and the author of New Ecological Realisms: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory (Edinburgh UP, 2021); Neobaroque in the Americas: Alternative Modernities in Literature, Visual Art, and Film (U of Virginia P, 2012); and Rewriting North American Borders in Chicano and Chicana Narrative (Peter Lang, 2001). She coedited, with Lois Parkinson Zamora, Baroque New Worlds: Representation, Transculturation, Counterconquest (Duke UP, 2010); and with Debra Rosenthal, Mixing Race, Mixing Culture: Inter-American Literary Dialogues (U of Texas P, 2002). Her journal articles can be found in Environmental Philosophy Online, Modernism/Modernity, Contemporary Literature, PMLA, Comparative Literature, and a special issue on globalism in Modern Language Quarterly. Monika is currently working on a monograph that focuses on vindicating narrative as a reliable mode of knowledge.

Pei-chen Liao is a professor at National Cheng Kung University and the author of Post-9/11 Historical Fiction and Alternate History Fiction: Transnational and Multidirectional Memory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and “Post”-9/11 South Asian Diasporic Fiction: Uncanny Terror (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Her journal articles appear in Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Women’s Studies, Life Writing, EurAmerica, and NTU Studies in Language and Literature. Pei-chen is currently working on two monographs: “Anglophone Asian Gilded-Age Fiction: Faking Entrepreneurship” and “Worlding Vietnam War Literature: Asia-Pacific, Disability, and Ecological Perspectives.”

Emmy Waldman is a visiting assistant professor at Virginia Tech and the author of Filial Lines: Art Spiegelman, Alison Bechdel, and Comics Form (Cambridge UP, forthcoming 2026). She has published in various journals, including Twentieth-Century Literature, Post45, New Literary History, ASAP/Journal, and the Harvard Divinity Bulletin.

Nayoung Yang is a PhD candidate at Stony Brook University. Her in-progress dissertation explores how Asian American women writers use food as a literary device and a form of feminist intervention.

Jennifer Spitzer is an associate professor and Chair of Literatures in English at Ithaca College and the author of Secret Sharers: The Intimate Rivalries of Modernism and Psychoanalysis (Fordham UP, 2023). Her academic essays have appeared in Modernism/Modernity, the Journal of Modern Literature, Studies in the Novel, the Modern Language Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her personal essays and creative nonfiction have appeared in the New York Times, Huffpost, LARB Avidly, and Two Hawks Quarterly.