Notes on Contributors

Sharon P. Holland is the Townsend Ludington Distinguished Professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Raising The Dead: Readings Of Death And (Black) Subjectivity (Duke UP, 2000), and co-author of a collection of trans-Atlantic Afro-Native criticism with Professor Tiya Miles (American Culture, UM, Ann Arbor) entitled Crossing Waters/Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (Duke University Press, 2006). She is the author of The Erotic Life of Racism (Duke University Press, 2012), a theoretical project that explores the intersection of Critical Race, Feminist, and Queer Theory. Her next book, an other: a black feminist consideration of animal life, is under contract with Duke University Press. You can see her work on food, writing, and all things equestrian on her blog, http://theprofessorstable.wordpress.com.

Chelsea Oei Kern is an ACLS Leading Edge Fellow with the Community of Literary Presses & Magazines, where she leads projects related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and access. She earned her doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2021. Her research focuses on contemporary literature and its relation to digital technologies.

Alberto Moreiras is Professor of Hispanic Studies and Latinx and Mexican American Studies at Texas A&M. He has taught at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Duke University, and the University of Aberdeen, and has held visiting positions at numerous institutions (Emory, Johns Hopkins, Minas Gerais, Chile, Buffalo). He is the author of Interpretación y diferencia (1991), Tercer espacio: literatura y duelo en América Latina (1999), The Exhaustion of difference: The Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies (2002), Línea de sombra. El no sujeto de lo político (2008), Marranismo e inscripción, o el abandono de la conciencia desdichada (2016), Infrapolítica. La diferencia absoluta de la que ningún experto puede hablar (2019), Sosiego siniestro (2020) and Infrapolítica: Instrucciones de uso (2020). He is a coeditor of Política común, and of the “Border Hispanisms” Series at University of Texas Press.

Susanna Paasonen is Professor of Media Studies at University of Turku, Finland, and author of Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography (MIT Press 2011), Many Splendored Things: Thinking Sex and Play (Goldsmiths Press 2018), and NSFW: Sex, Humor and Risk in Social Media (with Kylie Jarrett and Ben Light, MIT Press 2019).

Miriam Posner is Assistant Professor in the UCLA Department of Information Studies. She’s also a digital humanist with interest in labor, race, feminism, and the history and philosophy of data. Her book on the history of supply-chain management is under contract with Yale University Press.

Steven Ruszczycky is Assistant Professor in the department of English and a member of the Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is the author of Vulgar Genres: Gay teaching faculty in the department of Women’s, Gender, and Queer Studies at the California Pornographic Writing and Contemporary Fiction (University of Chicago Press, 2021).

Travis Workman is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His recent work includes essays on humanism and area studies and a forthcoming volume of translations of Korean literary and cultural criticism. He is finishing a book on North Korean and South Korean film melodrama of the Cold War era and starting one on neo-feudalism and contemporary media.

Sean A. Yeager is a doctoral candidate in English at The Ohio State University. Before joining Ohio State, Sean was an Assistant Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Pacific Northwest College of Art. Sean earned their M.Sc. in Physics from Texas A&M University by working as a data analyst for the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search. Sean earned their M.A. in Critical Studies from PNCA by performing a data-driven analysis of temporal structure in narrative. Sean currently studies contemporary literature through the lenses of narratology, digital humanities, and neuroqueer theory.