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KASSIE JO BARON received her PhD in English at the University of Iowa. Her dissertation, "Manufacturing the Mill Girl: Working-Class White Women's Bodies in New England Factory Literature, 1830–1860," examines literary representations of female textile operatives' bodies during the first industrial revolution.

JAMIE CHEN is an international graduate student and English PhD candidate at the University of Iowa. Her research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglophone novels, cosmopolitan readership, and the novel as aesthetic and material form. She is especially drawn to the political potential of unintended readers, unexpected textual circulation, and individual readerly affect that does not conform to conventional models of pleasure or disgust. Besides studying narrative structure, she is also pursuing a certificate with the Center of the Book to support her work with manuscripts and small letterpress publications.

PAUL DEVLIN is an associate professor of English at the United States Merchant Marine Academy and the book review editor of African American Review. He is the editor of Ralph Ellison in Context (2021) and other books.

ANDREW FLECK is an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso. His research focuses on early modern English engagement with the Dutch and on the history of science. His work has appeared in JMEMS, SEL, MARDiE, JBS, and Studies in Philology. His monograph, English National Identity and the Image of the Dutch: From the Armada to the Glorious Revolution, was published early in 2024 by Palgrave.

JACK O'BRIANT is a PhD candidate in English at Loyola University Chicago. His research focuses on the role of religion in modern and contemporary literature and culture, and he is currently working on a dissertation investigating manifestations of religion in the contemporary American migrant novel from the early 1990s to the present day.

MARIYA SHYMCHYSHYN is chair of the Department of Literary Theory and World Literature at Kyiv National Linguistics University (Ukraine). She holds a PhD in World Literature and Literary Theory and an MA in Comparative Literature. During 2003–2004 she was a Junior Faculty Development Program Fellow at Iowa State University. She did research for "Urban Space and Identity" at Loyola University (Chicago) as a Fulbright Scholar during 2013–2014. She has taught at various Ukrainian universities. Dr. Shymchyshyn is the author of three books (Lesiya Ukrainka's Ouevre in the Anglophone World, Ternopil, 2003; The Harlem Renaissance (History, Theory, Poetics and the African-American Identity), Ternopil, 2010; Geographies of Identity in 21st-Century Literature, Kyiv, 2020). She is a co-editor of Contemporary Literary Studies. She has worked on topics such as racial identity, the Harlem Renaissance, migratory novels, refugees in fiction, geocriticism and spatial literary studies, metamodernism, and contemporary US fiction.

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