Notes on Contributors

Ronald Bogue is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Deleuze and Guattari (1989), Deleuze on Literature (2003), Deleuze on Cinema (2003), Deleuze on Music, Painting, and the Arts (2003), Deleuze’s Wake: Tributes and Tributaries (2004), Deleuze’s Way: Essays in Transverse Ethics and Aesthetics (2007), and Deleuzian Fabulation: The Scars of History (2010).

Jason Frydman is Associate Professor of English at Brooklyn College, CUNY, where he has also served as Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Caribbean Studies. He is the author of Sounding the Break: African American and Caribbean Routes of World Literature, and has published extensively on the literatures of the Caribbean, Latin America, and the African diaspora, on subjects ranging from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Muslim slave narratives to gender and migration in Junot Díaz and Sandra Cisneros. He is currently at work on a project about the legal fictions of Caribbeans on trial.

James Hodge is Assistant Professor of digital media studies at Northwestern University in the department of English and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. He studies digital media aesthetics. He has published essays in Critical Inquiry, Film Criticism, and elsewhere. His book project, Animate Opacity: Digital Media and the Aesthetics of History, argues for the significance of animation for the experience of historical temporality.

James Liner is Lecturer in Culture, Arts, and Communication at the University of Washington Tacoma. His research focuses on the politics and aesthetics of collectivity in contemporary U.S. literature, and his current book project examines the utopian possibilities of postmodernism in the novels of Thomas Pynchon.

Julia C. Obert is Associate Professor and Assistant Chair in the Department of English at the University of Wyoming. Her first book, Postcolonial Overtures: The Politics of Sound in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry, was published by Syracuse UP in 2015. Her work has also appeared in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Textual Practice, New Hibernia Review, Irish Studies Review, Éire-Ireland, Postcolonial Text, and Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, and is forthcoming in Irish University Review and Emotion, Space and Society.

Christopher Schmidt is an Associate Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. He is the author of The Poetics of Waste: Queer Excess in Stein, Ashbery, Schuyler, and Goldsmith (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and two collections of poetry, Thermae (Eoagh, 2011) and The Next in Line (Slope, 2008). His essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in SubStance, Arizona Quarterly, Tin House, Bookforum, Boston Review, and other venues.

Stuart James Taylor is a doctoral candidate at the University of Glasgow. His dissertation examines the relationship between mathematics and contemporary American literature.