Notes on Contributors

Kevin Cooley is a PhD Candidate in the English Department at the University of Florida, where he works with animation, visual culture, and queer media. He is managing editor of ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, guest editor for Synoptique‘s special issue “Animating LGBTQ+ Representations,” and the 2020 recipient of the Lucy Shelton Caswell Award from the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library at Ohio State University. His work has appeared in Modernism/modernity, Animation, Horror Studies, and elsewhere.

Walter Johnston teaches in English and Comparative Literature at Williams College. His recent publications include “Land and See: the Theatricality of the Political in Schmitt and Melville,” in Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media after Melville (Northwestern UP, 2019), and “Critique of Populist Reason,” Diacritics Vol. 45, No. 3, 2017. He is completing a monograph entitled Political Romanticism Now: the Power of Judgment in Times of Dissent, which traces the anarchic horizontalism, open-endedness, and ephemerality of contemporary protest culture back to the tradition of “political romanticism.”

Nathaniel Likert is a PhD candidate in English at Cornell University, specializing in early modern literature, the history of science, and the philosophy of mind. His essay on Margaret Cavendish is forthcoming in ELH.

Margherita Long teaches Japanese literature and environmental humanities in the Department of East Asian Studies at UC Irvine. Her first book was a study of Tanizaki Jun’ichiro (1886-1965) called This Perversion Called Love: Reading Tanizaki, Feminist Theory and Freud (Stanford 2009). Her current project is a study of literature, activist narratives, and documentary cinema, Care, Affect, Crackup: Literature and Activism after Fukushima. The book discusses novelists Kimura Yūsuke, Kobayashi Erika, Ōe Kenzaburō, Tsushima Yūko, Yū Miri and Kawakami Hiromi, activists Mutō Ruiko, Sasaki Keiko and Sato Sachiko, and filmmakers Kamanaka Hitomi, Doi Toshikuni and Iwasaki Masanori.

Chris Malcolm received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UC Irvine in 2017. He is Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities and Coordinator of the Minor in Sustainable Ecosystems: Art & Design at Maine College of Art. His book project, Ecological Concessions: Environmental Damage and the Management of Harm, focuses critically on moments when environmental discourse seems preoccupied with conceding, admitting, confessing, and apologizing for its involvement in causing harm.

Joanne Randa Nucho, an anthropologist and filmmaker, is the author of Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon: Infrastructures, Public Services, and Power (Princeton University Press 2016) and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Pomona College. Her films have been screened in various venues, including the London International Documentary Film Festival.

Mark Steven is the author of Red Modernism (Johns Hopkins) and Splatter Capital (Repeater). He teaches literature at the University of Exeter.