Contributors

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 Petrosphere and 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).