Contributors to Volume 32, No. 1

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), and State, 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.