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Leah Marie Becker is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work considers the intersection of the environmental humanities, ecoconsumerism, and nineteenth-century domestic ideology. Her previous articles have appeared in Edge Effects (2021) and Render: Food and Feminist Quarterly (2014). She is currently writing her dissertation, preliminarily titled "Living Clean and Shopping Green: A Nineteenth-Century Domestic Prehistory of Ecoconsumption.

Joseph Allen Boone holds an endowed chair for Gender and Media Studies and is a professor of English at the University of Southern California. The author of The Homoerotics of Orientalism (Columbia University Press, 2015), Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism (University of Chicago Press, 1997), and Tradition Counter Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction (University of Chicago Press, 1987), he is completing a book on "the Melville effect" in contemporary art and culture from which this essay is culled. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEH, ACLS, the Huntington, the Rockefeller, the National Humanities Center, and the Stanford Humanities Center, Boone has just published his first novel, Furnace Creek (BSPG 2022).

Jeffory A. Clymer is a professor of English at the University of Kentucky. He is at work on a book exploring finance and risk in American fiction.

Seth Cosimini is a teaching assistant professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. His work focuses on the literature, culture, and thought of the African diaspora; nineteenth-century American literature and culture; and cultural studies. In his current book project, he examines "classic" American literature through post-1968 Black thought and argues that racial terror fundamentally structures American romance of the nineteenth century and into its afterlives.

Jane Im is a recent Ph.D. graduate from the English Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation "'The Everyday Affective Life of Racism': Forms of Racial Melancholia in Early Asian American Literature" argues that racial melancholia is an everyday, stoic, weakly intentional, past-oriented, and collective affect. Her recent publications include "Allusion, Quotation, and Pastiche in Younghill Kang's The Grass Roof and East Goes West" in Studies in the Novel (2020) and "Plant Life in Louise Erdrich's The Beet Queen" in Studies in American Indian Literatures (2021).

Veronica Makowsky is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Connecticut. She has published books on Caroline Gordon, Susan Glaspell, and Valerie Martin and articles on American women's, southern, and ethnic literature. She is an emeritus editor of MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States).

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