Notes on Contributors

Christina Hsu Accomando is professor of English and Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Cal Poly Humboldt. Her scholarship focuses on the law and literature of slavery and resistance, as well as contemporary issues of race, gender, and US law. She is the editor of Macmillan's Race, Class, and Gender in the United States (2020 and 2024) and the author of "The Regulations of Robbers": Legal Fictions of Slavery and Resistance (2001). Her articles have appeared in journals including MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, African American Review, Feminism & Psychology, and Humboldt Journal of Social Relations. She is a co-founder of the Eureka Chinatown Project.

Frederick Luis Aldama is an award-winning author of fiction, comics, and scholarly books as well as producer and co-creator of animation and documentary films. At the University of Texas at Austin, he holds the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and is Director of the Latinx Pop Lab. He is also University Distinguished Professor (adjunct) at The Ohio State University.

Martha J. Cutter is professor of English and Africana studies at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of four books, including The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown (2022) and The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800-1852 (2017), and she is the co-editor of Redrawing the Historical Past: History, Memory, and Multiethnic Graphic Novels (2018). She also has published over forty articles on women writers, American multiethnic literature, African American literature, abolition, and racial passing.

Mark Eaton is professor of English at Azusa Pacific University and a research associate professor of American literature at Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of Religion and American Literature Since 1950 (2020) and the co-editor of Historical Fiction Now (2023). Since 2015, he has been editor-in-chief of the journal Christianity & Literature.

Marlene Hansen Esplin is associate professor of interdisciplinary humanities at Brigham Young University. Her main research interests are translation studies and US and Latin American literatures. Recent projects include a review essay on "The 'Outward Turn' in Translation Studies" and an article examining intersections between translation and ethnography in English translations of Cabeza de Vaca's Relación. She is the co-editor of the forthcoming Translating Home in the Global South: Migration, Belonging, and Language Justice (2024).

Tracy Floreani is professor of English at Oklahoma City University where she teaches American literature and academic writing. She also serves as Director of the Jeanne Hoffman Smith Center for Film and Literature, OCU's public humanities initiative. She is the author of Fifties Ethnicities: The Ethnic Novel and Mass Culture at Midcentury (2013), editor of the MLA Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Ellison (2024), and is currently working on a biography of Fanny McConnell Ellison. She is the current President of The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS).

Jennifer Glaser is associate professor of English and affiliate faculty in Judaic studies and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Literary Imagination (2016), and articles, essays, and reviews in venues that include PMLA, MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, American Literature, Early American Literature, Image Text, Miracle Monocle, The New York Times, LA Review of Books, and an anthology of essays from Random House. She is the book review editor of Studies in American Jewish Literature.

Christopher González is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Endowed Chair and Professor in the Department of English at Southern Methodist University. He is the author, co-author, and editor of many books, including the International Latino Book Award-winning Reel Latinxs: Representation in U.S. Film & TV (2019); the Perkins Prize Honorable Mention Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature (2017); Graphic Borders: Latino Comic Books, Past, Present and Future (2016); and Reading Junot Díaz (2015). His research and teaching areas include twentieth-century American literature; multiethnic literatures of the United States; Latinx literary and cultural production; film; comics and graphic novels; narrative theory; and American studies. He received his PhD in English from The Ohio State University.

Corey D. Greathouse is associate professor of English and program coordinator of African and African Diaspora Studies at Austin Community College, where he has taught for ten years. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His research interests are nineteenth-century African American literature and African diasporic folklore. He has authored "Review for Literacy: Writing in the Lives of Adult Learners" and "Using Personal Diaries as a Site for Reconstructing African American History."

Danielle Haque is professor of English at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She is the author of Interrogating Secularism: Race and Religion in Arab Transnational Art and Literature (2019). She has published multiple articles and books chapters on Arab and Muslim American literature, film, and art, including in American Literature, American Quarterly, MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, and Sajjilu SWANA: A Reader in Arab American Studies.

Scott Henkel is the Wyoming Excellence Chair in the Humanities, the director of the Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research, and associate professor in the departments of English and African American and Diaspora Studies at the University of Wyoming. He is a past-president of the Working-Class Studies Association (WCSA) and the author of Direct Democracy: Collective Power, the Swarm, and the Literatures of the Americas (2017), which won a C.L.R. James Award for Best Published Book for Academic or General Audiences from the WCSA in 2018.

Joe Kraus is professor in the Department of English and Theatre at the University of Scranton where he teaches creative writing and American literature. He is the author of The Kosher Capones (2019) and co-author of An Accidental Anarchist (2004). His academic and creative work has appeared, among other places, in The American Scholar, Baltimore Review, Riverteeth, Moment, Southern Humanities Review, and Under the Sun. He is a two-time Pushcart nominee and a past-President of The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS).

William Kummer is a PhD candidate in Wilfrid Laurier University's English and Film program, where he is focusing on contemporary American life writing. He was a panelist at the International Auto/Biography Association's 2021 biennial conference, and he co-chaired a conference on Posthumanism, Memory, and Cinema in 2022.

Emily Lutenski is associate professor of American studies at Saint Louis University. She is the author of West of Harlem: African American Writers and the Borderlands (2015). Her work in critical ethnic studies and gender studies has also been published in journals such as MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Western American Literature, Studies in American Indian Literatures, and Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, as well as in edited collections.

Joycelyn K. Moody is Sue E. Denman Distinguished Chair in American Literature and professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she teaches and researches about African American literature and culture, transnational Black life writing, and Black feminisms. She is editor of A History of African American Autobiography (2021) and series editor of the 17-volume series African American Literature in Transition (in progress), both published by Cambridge University Press.

Sarah Lynn Patterson is assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research and teaching specialties include African American literature and culture, nineteenth-century reform movements, women writers, and digital humanities. She is the co-founder of the award-winning digital archive ColoredConventions.org and is the co-editor and a contributor for The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century (2021).

Vincent Pérez is associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he teaches courses in Latinx, Chicanx, and hemispheric American literature. His research focuses on early Chicanx and Latinx narrative. His book Remembering the Hacienda: History and Memory in the Mexican American Southwest (2006) examines early Mexican American novels and autobiographies in relation to the nineteenth-century hacienda/ranch social economy of the Mexican Southwest. His articles appear in the book anthologies A History of...