Erich von Klosst-Dohna is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Illinois Chicago. His research and teaching revolve around the subjects of modernism, poetry, aesthetics, and theory of action.
Andrew B. Liu
Andrew B. Liu teaches history at Villanova University. He is the author of Tea War: A history of capitalism in China and India (Yale UP, 2020). His research centers on modern China with a focus on transnational Asia, the methods of global and comparative history, and political economy and social theory. He is currently developing a project on China and the postwar Asia-Pacific, set against the global economic crises and restructuring of the 1970/80s.
Anna Zalokostas
Anna Zalokostas is a Teagle Fellow and Postdoctoral Teaching Scholar in Interdisciplinary Studies at North Carolina State University. Her current research focuses on 20th and 21st century transnational American literature, globalization, and racial formation. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Post45 and the edited collection The Return of the 90s: A Cultural History of the Present.
Benjamin Crais
Benjamin Crais is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin. He is currently at work on two projects: a history of the agrarian question in 20th-century political filmmaking and a study of literary narratives of deindustrialization in the long 1970s. His scholarship has been published in Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, The South Atlantic Quarterly, and Polygraph: An International Journal of Culture and Politics. His criticism has appeared in venues including Film Comment, Narrow Margin, Sidecar (New Left Review), Screen Slate, MUBI Notebook, and the catalog of the Viennale.
Josué Chávez
Josué Chávez is Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at Bryn Mawr College. His current research project investigates the relationship between artistic forms and financial transitions in contemporary Central America.
Chris Gortmaker
Chris Gortmaker is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of English and in the College at the University of Chicago. He writes and teaches about Anglo-American modernism, African American literature, the contemporary novel, and critical theory.
Jake Burchard
Jake Burchard is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Sociology at Duke University. His research is in the areas of economic and political sociology, social network analysis, and the philosophy of the social sciences.
Davis Smith-Brecheisen
Davis Smith-Brecheisen is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Texas, Dallas. He is the author of Mode of Address: The Modernist Novel and Theory After Postmodernism (SUNY 2026).
Bruna Della Torre
Bruna Della Torre is currently a fellow at the The Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at Heidelberg University, post-doctoral fellow at the Program for Sociology at the State University of Campinas on a scholarship from FAPESP and executive editor of Journal Crítica Marxista. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of São Paulo, with a dissertation on Theodor W. Adorno and writes on Brazilian social theory, Marxism, literature and art. Her most recent book isA vanguarda do atraso ou o atraso da vanguarda? (Alameda, 2019).
Fabio Akcelrud Durão
Fabio Akcelrud Durão is Professor of Literary Theory at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp). He is the author of Modernism and Coherence (Peter Lang, 2008), Teoria (literária) americana (Autores Associados, 2010), Fragmentos Reunidos (Nankin, 2015) and Metodologia de Pesquisa em Literatura (Parábola, 2020), among others. His articles appeared in journals such as Critique (Paris: Minuit), Cultural Critique, Parallax, Wassafiri, Modern Language Notes,and Zeitschrift für kritischen Theorie. His main research interests are Anglo-American Modernism, the Frankfurt School, and Brazilian critical theory.
Tavid Mulder
Tavid Mulder is an Affiliated Faculty in the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College. His research deals with Latin American literature, modernism, and critical theory. His work has appeared in Mediations, A Contracorriente, Comparative Literature Studies, and he is currently completing a book manuscript entitledModernism in the Peripheral Metropolis for Palgrave’s “New Comparisons in World Literature” series.
Silvia L. López
Silvia. L. López is Maxine H. and Winston R. Wallin Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies. Her areas of research are Critical Theory (Adorno) and social and cultural modernity in Latin America.
Nicholas Brown
Nicholas Brown chairs the editorial board ofMediations and teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Romy Rajan
Romy Rajan is a Visiting Assistant professor at Tulane University, working with literatures of the Global South, particularly from East Africa and South Asia. His essays have appeared in the journals,Ariel and Mediations, and he has presented in multiple national and regional conferences.
Brent Ryan Bellamy
Brent Ryan Bellamy teaches contemporary literature and world building across media at Trent University. His book Remainders of the American Century: Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline (2021) is available from Wesleyan University Press.>Materialism and the Critique of Energy, co-edited with Jeff Diamanti, is available from MCMPrime Press.
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Nancy Armstrong
Nancy Armstrong is the Gilbert, Lewis, and Edward Lehrman Professor of Trinity College and Professor of English. She has authored five books and many articles on the theory and history of the European and American novel and served as managing editor of the journal Novel: A Forum on Fiction since 1996.
Ronjaunee Chatterjee
Ronjaunee Chatterjee is the author of Feminine Singularity: The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature (forthcoming 2022, Stanford University Press) and the editor of the Norton Critical Middlemarch (2023). She lives in Montreal.
Devin William Daniels
Devin William Daniels is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is completing a dissertation titled “Informatic States: Administration, Identity, and Surveillance in the U.S. Novel, 1940–1977.” His work is forthcoming in English Studies in Africa, Contemporaries at Post45, and Hyped on Melancholy.
Racheal Fest
Racheal Fest is Lecturer in English at SUNY Oneonta. She writes about US literature and culture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Her research considers the ways US cultural, economic, and political traditions understand the nature and function of creative human activity. Areas of special interest include poetry and poetics, modernism, contemporary popular culture, new media, and the history of literary theory and criticism. Her essays and interviews have appeared in peer-reviewed and online venues, among them boundary 2, Entropy, JUMP CUT, and Politics/Letters.
Zach Fruit
Zach Fruit is an Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA, where he is researching the history of land enclosure, aesthetics, and British realism. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania.
Corbin Hiday
Corbin Hiday is a Visiting Assistant Professor in English at the University of Texas at El Paso. His writings on Victorian and global anglophone literature, Marxism, and the environmental humanities have appeared or are forthcoming in the journal, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, and the collections Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphereand The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx.
Anna Kornbluh
Anna Kornbluh is Professor of English at UIC. She is the author of three books in marxist cultural interpretation and is currently completing Immediacy, or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism.
Thomas A. Laughlin
Thomas A. Laughlin has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Toronto. He has published articles on topics in nineteenth-century literature in The Henry James Review, Mediations, and Resilience. He lives in Toronto and works as a casualized academic laborer at universities in the surrounding area.
Rithika Ramamurthy
Rithika Ramamurthy is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Brown University and the President of the Graduate Labor Organization (RIFT-AFT Local 6516). She writes and thinks about capitalism, feelings, and work in the long nineteenth century.
Bruce Robbins
Bruce Robbins is the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His most recent book is “The Beneficiary” (Duke, 2017).
Paul Stasi
Paul Stasi teaches 20th century Anglophone literature at SUNY Albany. His current book project--tentatively titled Remainders of Realism — traces the persistence of realism’s forms and thematic concerns in works of modernist literature.
Emily Steinlight
Emily Steinlight is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Populating the Novel: Literary Form and the Politics of Surplus Life and is currently working on a second book on nineteenth-century theories of mental labor.
Natalie Suzelis
Natalie Suzelis holds a Ph.D. in Literary and Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon University. Her research synthesizes environmental and economic history with cultural theory in order to investigate capitalist transition from the early modern period to the present. She is a contributing editor of Uneven Earth and her research has been published in Shakespeare Studies, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1800, and Law, Culture, and Humanities.
Amy R. Wong
Amy R. Wong is Assistant Professor of English at Dominican University of California. Her current book project, Refiguring Speech: Late Victorian Fiction and the Poetics of Talk, examines how figurations of talk in fictions of empire disrupt colonialist logics of speech as property. She is also a co-editor of the recent special issue for Victorian Studies, “Undisciplining Victorian Studies” (2020).
Rosemary Hennessy
Rosemary Hennessy is the L. H. Favrot Professor of Humanities in English at Rice University. Her books includeFires on the Border: The Passionate Politics of Labor Organizing on the Mexican Frontera (2013),NAFTA From Below: Maquiladora Workers, Campesinos, and Indigenous Communities Speak Back (2006),Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism (2000),Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Difference, and Women’s Lives (1997), andMaterialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse (1993). Her current research project considers women writers from the 1930s inspired by the communist party who have much to teach us about maintaining life in the 21st century.
Neil Larsen
Neil Larsen is Professor of Comparative Literature and of Critical Theory at the University of California, Davis. His books include Modernism and Hegemony(Minnesota UP, 1990); Reading North by South (Minnesota, 1995); and Determinations (Verso, 2001). He is an editor of the journal of the Marxist Literary Group, Mediations, and a member of the editorial collective of Krisis.
Peter Drucker
Peter Drucker is the author of Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism and a fellow of the International Institute for Research and Education in Amsterdam.
David W. Pritchard
David W. Pritchard is a PhD candidate in English at UMass Amherst. He works on modern and contemporary North American poetry. He is currently writing a dissertation about the New Narrative movement, Gay Liberation, and the revolutionary poetics of the long 1970s. David is also a poet. He has published several chapbooks, most recentlyTen Pages of Poetry (Dept. of Works in Public), and he curates the experimental quasi-podcast RAW MATERIALS.
Allie Brooks
Allie Brooks is an adjunct faculty member at Kent State and is still trying to figure out what the endnotes collective meant by the term “abject.”
Jen Hedler Phillis
Jen Hedler Phillis coedited Totality Inside Out with Kevin Floyd and Sarika Chandra. It is forthcoming from Fordham Press.
Kevin Floyd
Kevin Floyd was Associate Professor of English at Kent State University, and the author ofThe Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism (Minnesota 2009). He also coeditedTotality Inside Out with Jen Hedler Phillis and Sarika Chandra.
Ericka Beckman
Ericka Beckman is associate professor of Romance languages at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Capital Fictions: The Literature of Latin America’s Export Age(Minnesota, 2013). Her current book project, tentatively titled “Agrarian Questions: Latin American Literature in the Age of Development,” examines how twentieth-century literary fiction by authors such as, Rosario Castellanos, Juan Rulfo, José Donoso and José María Arguedas, registered capitalist transitions in the countryside, primarily in relation to three overlapping processes: agricultural commercialization and mechanization, urban out-migration, and land reform.
Nicholas Brown
Nicholas Brown is Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His recent books include Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art Under Capitalism and, as coeditor, Contemporary Marxist Theory: A Reader.
Jodi Dean
Jodi Dean teaches political and media theory in Geneva, New York. She has written or edited eleven books, including Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging (Verso 2019), Crowds and Party (Verso 2016), The Communist Horizon (Verso 2012), and Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies (Duke 2009).
Matthew Flisfeder
Matthew Flisfeder is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communications at The University of Winnipeg. He is the author of Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner (Bloomsbury 2017), The Symbolic, The Sublime, and Slavoj Žižek’s Theory of Film (Palgrave Macmillan 2012), and co-editor of Žižek and Media Studies: A Reader (Palgrave Macmillan 2014).
Dan Hassler-Forest
Dan Hassler-Forest works as Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Utrecht University. He has published books and articles on superhero movies, comics, transmedia storytelling, adaptation studies, critical theory, and zombies.
Kai Heron
Kai Heron recently completed his PhD in Politics and International Relations at The University of Manchester, UK. His research interests include political theory, psychoanalysis, Marxism and political ecology.
Anna Kornbluh
Anna Kornbluh is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of The Order of Forms: Realism, Formalism, and Social Space (University of Chicago 2019), Marxist Film Theory and Fight Club (Bloomsbury “Film Theory in Practice” series, 2019), and Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form (Fordham UP 2014). Her current research concerns impersonality, objectivity, mediation, and abstraction as residual faculties of the literary in privatized urgent times. She is the founding facilitator of two scholarly cooperatives: v21collective.org and interccect.com.
Leigh Claire La Berge
Leigh Claire La Berge is Assistant Professor of English at the City University of New York. She is the author of Wages Against Artwork: Socially Engaged Art and The Decommodification of Labor (Duke 2019), Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s (Oxford 2014) and the co-editor of Reading Capitalist Realism (Iowa 2014). Her articles on the political economy of culture have appeared in American Literary History, Criticism, Postmodern Culture, South Atlantic Quarterly, and the Radical History Review.
Thomas A. Laughlin
Thomas A. Laughlin has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Toronto.
Mathias Nilges
Mathias Nilges is Professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. He is the author of Right-Wing Culture in Contemporary Capitalism: Regression and Hope in a Time Without Future (2019), and he has co-edited five books, including most recently Literature and the Global Contemporary (2017— with Sarah Brouillette and Emilio Sauri), and Periodizing the Future: William Gibson, Genre, and Cultural History (2021— with Mitch R. Murray).
Benjamin Noys
Benjamin Noys is Professor of Critical Theory at the University of Chichester. His most recent book is Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism (Zero Books, 2014).
Jacob Sloan
Jacob Sloan is a doctoral candidate in the English department at SUNY Buffalo. His research takes a comparative approach to the global proletarian novel and focuses on the vital relationship between literary realism, totalization, and humanist Marxism. Tracking proletarian realist representations of capitalist unevenness anad non-mechanistic class struggle in novels from the United States, Korea, South Africa, Palestine, China, and Kenya, he explores the importance of proletarian realism as both a narrative and theoretical intervention that pushes Marxism beyond stagist and non-agential conceptions of historical motion.
Nicholas Brown
Nicholas Brown is Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His recent books include Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art Under Capitalism and, as coeditor, Contemporary Marxist Theory: A Reader.
Anirban Karak
Anirban Karak is a doctoral student of South Asian history at New York University, where he is working on the relationship between commerce, caste, and devotional poetry in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Bengal. His main research interest lies in bridging the gap between traditional histories of capitalism as the history of European ascendancy, and specifically South Asian Histories. Anirban has published essays on the history of the English Premier League in the Review of Radical Political Economics, on Indian labor relations in Development and Change, and on the relationship between Indian Political Economy and state planning in Modern Asian Studies.
Thomas Laughlin
Thomas A. Laughlin has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Toronto. He currently works as a contract instructor at multiple university campuses in southern Ontario, Canada.
Jessica Manry
Jessica Manry is a PhD candidate in the English Department at the University at Albany, SUNY. Her work focuses on modernism and Marxist aesthetic, political, and decolonizing theory. Her dissertation considers totality, interiority, and capitalist imperialism in pairs of modernist novels. She is currently the organizer for the Graduate Student Employees Union at the University at Albany campus.
Oded Nir
Oded Nir is Visiting Assistant Professor of Hebrew at Vassar College. He writes and teaches about Israeli culture and Marxist theory. His book Signatures of Struggle (SUNY, October 2018), provides a Marxist account of the development of Israeli literature, challenging existing narratives of it. Oded is the editor of the peer-reviewed journal, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture.
Philip Bounds
Philip Bounds is a historian, journalist and critic. He holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Wales and has published widely on the intellectual history of the British left. His books include Orwell and Marxism (2009), British Communism and the Politics of Literature (2012) and Notes from the End of History (2014).
Darko Suvin
Darko Suvin is a Yugoslav born academic, writer and critic who became a Professor at McGill University in Montreal — now emeritus. He is best known for several major works of criticism and literary history devoted to science fiction, including: Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre (1979), Victorian Science Fiction in the U.K.: The Discourses of Knowledge and of Power (1983), To Brecht and Beyond: Soundings in Modern Dramaturgy (1984), Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction (1988), and Defined by a Hollow: Essays on Utopia, Science Fiction and Political Epistemology (2010).
Roberto Schwarz
Roberto Schwarz, born in Vienna in 1938, grew up in São Paulo, studying there and later in the United States and France. His books in English include Two Girls; Misplaced Ideas: Essays on Brazilian Culture; and A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism, the central component of his study of Machado de Assis.
Deborah Young
Deborah Young is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at The University of California, Davis.
Bret Benjamin
Bret Benjamin is Associate Professor of English at the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY). Author of Invested Interests: Capital, Culture, and the World Bank (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), Benjamin teaches courses in Marxist theory, transnational cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and globalization studies. In addition to his primary faculty appointment in upstate New York, he has held temporary teaching positions at Moscow State University in Russia and the English and Foreign Languages University in Hyderabad, India.
Sofia Cutler
Sofia Cutler is an English teacher whose writing has appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Jacobin, 3:AM Magazine and elsewhere.
Neil Lazarus
Neil Lazarus is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. His most recent book is Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature, collaboratively written by the Warwick Research Collective (Liverpool UP, 2015). Previous publications include The Postcolonial Unconscious (Cambridge UP, 2011), Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World (CUP, 1999) and Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction (Yale UP, 1990). Edited volumes include The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Studies (2004) and (with Crystal Bartolovich) Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies (CUP, 2002). He works in the fields of postcolonial and world-literary studies, with particular interests in Marxism, globalisation and imperialism, critical theory, modernity and modernism, realism, and the novel. His current project is Into Our Labours: Work and Literary Form in World-Literary Perspective.
Sourayan Mookerjea
Sourayan Mookerjea is director of the Intermedia Research Studio at the Department of Sociology, University of Alberta where he teaches cultural studies and social theory, specializes in decolonizing social theory, critical globalization studies, and intermedia research. His current projects and publications include SSHRC funded research on Decolonizing Theories of the Commons, Toxic Media Ecologies: Critical Responses to the Cultural Politics of Planetary Crises and is co-director of Feminist Energy Futures and Intermedia & Documentary: Future Energy Systems and a founding member of RePublicU, a critical university studies collaboration, of the Arts and the Anthropocene social justice research creation CoLab at the University of Alberta. He is co-editor of Canadian Cultural Studies: A Reader (Duke University Press, 2009).
Stephen Shapiro
Stephen Shapiro teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies in the University of Warwick. His most recent publication is Pentecostal Modernism: Lovecraft, Los Angeles, and World-Systems Culture (2017). A co-edited collection (with Liam Kennedy), Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature is forthcoming, as is another one co-edited with Sharae Deckard, World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent (2019). Among his other works are How to Read Marx’s Capital (2008) and The Culture and Commerce of the Early American Novel: Reading the Atlantic World-System (2008).
Malcolm K. Read
Malcolm K. Read was born in Derby, England, in 1945. Educated at Derby and District College of Technology and Bristol University, Professor Read gained his PhD at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he lectured in Spanish from 1968 to 1980. He was lecturer and senior lecturer at Auckland University, New Zealand, from 1980 to 1993, during which time he held a visiting professorship at the University of West Indies in Jamaica (1987). He moved to the USA in 1993 to become Chair of the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, where he taught until his retirement in 2012. He is the author of numerous articles in major journals and books on Spanish language and literature, Marxism and psychoanalysis. His books include, Juan Harte de San Juan (1981),The Birth and Death of Language: Spanish Literature and Linguistics: 1300-1700 (1983),Visions in Exile: The Body in Spanish Literature and Linguistics: 1500-1800(1990);Language, Text, Subject: A Critique of Hispanism (1992),Educating the Educators: Hispanism and its Institutions(2003); and The Matrix Effect: Hispanism and the Ideological Unconscious (2010). He is also the author of a historical novel:Rebellion (2018). Translations include: Juan Carlos Rodríguez’s Theory and History of Ideological Production: The First Bourgeois Literatures (the 16th Century)(2002), andState, Stage, Language: The Production of the Subject (2008). Professor Read currently resides in Belper, England.
Myka Tucker-Abramson
Myka Tucker-Abramson is an assistant professor of American Literature at the University of Warwick. Her first book,Novel Shocks: Urban Renewal and the Origins of Neoliberalism (Fordham) is coming out in December.
Stacey Balkan
Stacey Balkan is assistant professor of Environmental Literature and Humanities at Florida Atlantic University. Her teaching and research focus on postcolonial ecologies, landscape aesthetics and counter-pastoralism, and environmental justice. Recent articles for The Global South and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment interrogate the material legacies of uneven and combined development in Nigeria and India; and her current book project, Rogues in the Postcolony: Developing Itinerancy in India, studies picaresque critiques of enclosure and removal within colonial and postcolonial improvement regimes. Balkan’s writing has also appeared in Comparative Literature and Culture, The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Literature, World Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies, Social Text Online, and Public Books.
Brent Ryan Bellamy
Brent Ryan Bellamy is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta.
Amanda Boetzkes
Amanda Boetzkes is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Guelph. Her research focuses on the intersection of the biological sciences with visual technologies and artistic practices of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. She is the author of The Ethics of Earth Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), and co-editor of Heidegger and the Work of Art History (Ashgate Press, 2014). She is currently writing a book entitled, Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste, which analyzes the use and representation of garbage in contemporary art, and how waste as such is defined, narrativized and aestheticized in the age of global capitalism.
Jeff Diamanti
Jeff Diamanti teaches Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam.
Jordan B. Kinder
Jordan B. Kinder is a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow and PhD Candidate in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta where he studies the cultural politics of oil, energy, and media. His work has appeared in Socialism and Democracy, Point of View Magazine, and elsewhere with pieces forthcoming in Energy Cultures (edited by Jeff Diamanti and Imre Szeman) and The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx edited by Jeff Diamanti, Andrew Pendakis, and Imre Szeman). His broader fields of interest include critical theory, the energy humanities, the environmental humanities, infrastructure, materialisms, and theories of social reproduction in late capitalism.
Thomas A. Laughlin
Thomas A. Laughlin has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Toronto.
Katherine Lawless
Katherine Lawless is an assistant professor in the Centre for Global Studies at Huron University College in London, Ontario. She has previous published articles on memory, art, politics and capitalism. You can read her work in American Imago and Feminist Media Studies. She is currently directing her research on cultural memory toward the environmental and energy humanities with a particular focus on nuclear memory, ecological preservation, and capitalist realism.
Andreas Malm
Andreas Malm teaches human ecology at Lund University, Sweden. He is the author of Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming (Verso, 2016).
Amy Riddle
Amy Riddle is a graduate student in the department of Comparative Literature at the University of California,Davis with designated emphases in Critical Theory and African Studies. Her PhD work is primarily focused on contemporary literature from Africa, the United States, and the Middle East in French, Arabic, and English.
David Thomas
David Thomas is a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholar in the Department of English at Carleton University. His thesis explores the recent cultural history of the British Isles, and unfolds around the twin foci of class and climate change
Alberto Toscano
Alberto Toscano is Reader in Critical Theory and Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Theory. He is the author of three monographs: The Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation Between Kant and Deleuze (2006), Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (2010), and (with Jeff Kinkle) Cartographies of the Absolute (2015). He edited The Italian Difference: Between Nihilism and Biopolitics with Lorenzo Chiesa, and has translated several works by Alain Badiou, as well as Antonio Negri, Furio Jesi and Franco Fortini. He is currently working on two book projects, the first on tragedy as a political form, the second on philosophy, capitalism and “real abstraction.” He is also preparing two multi-volume edited collections, a Handbook of Marxism (with Bev Skeggs and Sara Farris) and Alain Badiou: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (with Ray Brassier). He has sat on the editorial board of the journal Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory since 2004
Amanda Armstrong
Amanda Armstrong is a member of the Society of Fellows and an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Michigan. She is currently working on her first book project, entitled “Between the Union and the Police: Railway Labor, Race and Masculinity in the Second British Empire, 1848-1928.” She has published with South Atlantic Quarterly, Postmodern Culture, Viewpoint Magazine, and LIES.
Laura Krughoff
Laura Krughoff is a novelist and an assistant professor in the English Department and Gender and Queer Studies Program at the University of Puget Sound.
Shaoling Ma
Shaoling Ma is an Assistant Professor of Literature at Yale-NUS College, Singapore where she teaches and researches at the intersection of critical and literary theory, Marxism, Chinese and Sinophone literature, art, and cultural history. She is currently working on her book manuscript, China and “New” Media, 1861-1911, which argues that writing became new during the late Qing period when it evokes and simulates new media techniques of communication and recording, and in doing so synthesizes and manipulates the usual oppositions between Chinese thought and Western learning, tradition and modernity, essence and application. She has published in Angelaki, Theory and Event, and Science Fiction Studies.
Tavid Mulder
Tavid Mulder is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Brown University, where he works on Latin American literature, global modernism and critical theory. His current project, The Peripheral Metropolis: Montage, the City and Modernity, looks at how writers in the 1920s and 30s--in Latin American in particular, but also in Germany, the US and Italy--use montage and figures of the city to reflect on and formally represent the contradictions of capitalist modernity. Tavid’s work has appeared in Revista Hispánica Moderna.
Tama Nagypal
Tamas Nagypal has recently defended his PhD titled Film Noir as the Sovereign-Image of Empire: Cynicism, White Male Biopolitics, and the Neoliberal Cinematic Apparatus at Department of Cinema and Media Studies at York University, Toronto. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University, Corvallis and working on a project about rage in post-socialist cinema. His publications include articles in journals like Film International, The Journal of Religion and Film, and Mediations, as well as book chapters in edited volumes such as Zizek and Media Studies: A Reader and Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters: Essays on Cinema’s Holy Terrors.
Jensen Suther
Jensen Suther is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Yale University, where he is writing a dissertation on the centrality of the concept of freedom developed by Kant, Hegel, and Marx to literary modernism (Spirit Disfigured: The Persistence of Freedom in Modernist Literature and Philosophy). His work has also appeared in Telos. Recent articles include “The Necessity of Freedom: A Critique of Michel Foucault” and “The Trial of Freedom in Kafka.”
Justin Raden
Justin Raden is a PhD student at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Sandeep Banerjee
Sandeep Banerjee is Assistant Professor of English at McGill University. His research focuses on South Asian literary and cultural texts from the nineteenth century to the present, as well as literary and social theory. It takes up questions of the production of space and nature, nationalism, globalization, the global history of the novel, and aesthetics in the global periphery from a materialist perspective. His articles have been published in Victorian Literature and Culture and Modern Asian Studies, and in the edited volume Cities in South Asia. He is completing his monograph, Landscapes of the Postcolony: Spatial Utopianism in the Age of Empire, that examines the spatial dimension of Indian anti-colonial nationalism. He is also researching the literary imagination of the colonial Himalaya, funded by a grant from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC).
Matthew Flisfeder
Matthew Flisfeder is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications at the University of Winnipeg. He is the author of Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner (Bloomsbury 2017) and The Symbolic, the Sublime, and Slavoj Žižek’s Theory of Film (Palgrave Macmillan 2012), and co-editor of Žižek and Media Studies: A Reader (Palgrave Macmillan 2014).
Eli Jelly-Schapiro
Eli Jelly-Schapiro is an assistant professor of English at the University of South Carolina, where he teaches courses in global contemporary literature. His writing has appeared in Transition, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Chronicle Review, The Nation, The Journal of American Studies, Transforming Anthropology, and Critique, among other publications.
Carolyn Lesjak
Carolyn Lesjak is Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser University and is the author of Working Fictions: A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel (Duke UP), as well as numerous articles on nineteenth-century British literature and culture and Marxist theory. Recent essays include “Reading Dialectically” (Criticism), “Acts of Enclosure and their Afterlife” (BRANCH); and a review essay on Franco Moretti (Historical Materialism). She is currently completing a project on the material basis of character in Victorian literature and its relationship to notions of the common(s).
Promise Li
Promise Li researches Renaissance poetry and poetics, early modern women’s literature, and critical theory. His work is published or forthcoming in Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, Sixteenth Century Journal, and The Hong Kong Review of Books. He is affiliated with Occidental College and is currently working on the connections between humanist pedagogy and post-humanism in Edmund Spenser’s poetry.
Warren Montag
Warren Montag is the Brown Family Professor of Literature at Occidental College in Los Angeles. His most recent books include Althusser and his Contemporaries (Duke University Press, 2013) and The Other Adam Smith (Stanford University Press, 2014). Montag is also the editor of Décalages, a journal on Althusser and his circle, and the translator of Étienne Balibar’s Identity and Difference: John Locke and the Invention of Consciousness (Verso, 2013).
Auritro Majumder
Auritro Majumder is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Houston. He writes and teaches on modern anglophone and postcolonial literature, cinema, and critical and social theory, particularly Marxism. Currently, he is working on his first book, which details the literary and cultural representations of the Maoist Naxalite movement in India from the 1960s to the contemporary era. Majumder has published or has forthcoming essays in the journals Comparative Literature Studies, Critical Asian Studies, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and Research in African Literatures. In addition, he has contributed chapters to the edited volumes History, Imperialism, Critique: New Essays in World Literature (Routledge), Crossing Borders: Essays on Literature, Culture and Society in Honor of Amritjit Singh (Fairleigh Dickinson UP), Contentious Connections: Social Imagination in Globalizing South Asia (Cambridge Scholars UP), and Modern Social Thinkers (Setu P). He can be reached at amajumder@uh.edu
Mitch R. Murray
Mitch R. Murray is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Florida, where he is writing a project on The Art of Genre: The Künstlerroman in 21st Century American Fiction. You can read his work in ImageTexT and Science Fiction Film and Television.
Oded Nir
Oded Nir is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies and Franklin and Marshall College. His work focuses on the intersection of Marxist notions of totality and Israeli literature and culture. His book Signatures if Struggle, which presents a Marxist rethinking of Israeli literary history, is forthcoming from SUNY Press.
Jason Read
Jason Read is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of The Micro-Politics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present (SUNY 2003) and The Politics of Transindividuality (Brill 2015/Haymarket 2016). He has published essays on Spinoza, Deleuze, Foucault, and The Wire.He blogs at unemployednegativity.com.
Davis Smith-Brecheisen
Davis Smith-Brecheisen is a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he works on American literature, literary theory, and the history of the novel. His work has appeared in Studies in American Fiction, Mediations, and The Jacobin.
Imre Szeman
Imre Szeman is Professor of Communication and English at the University of Waterloo. His recent books include Fueling Culture: 101 Words on Energy and Environment (co-ed, 2017) and Energy Humanities: An Anthology (co-ed, 2017).
Phillip E. Wegner
Phillip E. Wegner is the Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar and Professor of English at the University of Florida. He is the founder of UF’s Working Group for the Study of Critical Theory (SCT@UF) and faculty sponsor for the graduate student Marxist Reading Group and their annual international conference. His most recent books are Periodizing Jameson: Dialectics, the University, and the Desire for Narrative (2014) and Shockwaves of Possibility: Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia (2014).