Contributors to Volume 37, No. 1

Erich von Klosst-Dohna

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).