Contributors to Volume 32, No. 2

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.