Notes on Contributors

John Freeman is a Renaissance scholar with a wide range of research and teaching interests, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to Thomas More’s Utopia to digital and popular culture (such as the MTV series “Catfish”). His recent publications include “Tupac’s ‘Holographic Resurrection’: Corporate Takeover or Rage against the Machinic?” (CTheory) and “Shakespeare’s Imitation Game, or: How Do You Solve a [Problem Set] Like Katherina?” (Symploke).

Brian Glavey is an Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina and the author of The Wallflower Avant-Garde (Oxford, 2016). He is currently working on a book on relatability and the poetics of oversharing.

Andrew Kingston is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at Emory University. His dissertation examines figures of corruption in the history of aesthetics and the performing arts, drawing on the work of Jacques Derrida, Stéphane Mallarmé, Arnold Schoenberg, and others. He has published on Derrida and Hegel.

Michael Millner teaches English and American Studies at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, where he will serve as the Nancy Donahue Endowed Professor of the Arts beginning in 2020. He is currently working on a narrative history of the Dylan-Warhol meeting in 1965. This essay is part of a larger project investigating how recent research in cognitive science has shaped political economy. More information about his scholarship and teaching is available at michaelmillner.com.

Marina Peterson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Sound, Space, and the City: Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles (UPenn Press), and has co-edited volumes on anthropology and the arts and global downtowns. Her work explores sound, sensation, and urban infrastructures below and above ground, with research primarily in Los Angeles and Appalachia. Her forthcoming book is Atmospheric Noise: Aerial Matters in Los Angeles (Duke UP).

Steven Swarbrick is Assistant Professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY. His research spans sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, queer theory, environmental humanities, film, and disability studies. His current book project is titled “Materialism without Matter: Environmental Poetics from Spenser to Milton.” He is working on a second book project provisionally titled “Deleuze and the Intolerable: Cinema at the End of the World.” His essays have appeared or are forthcoming in journals including Cultural Critique, JNT, and Criticism, as well as in several edited anthologies, including Queer Milton.

Mikko Tuhkanen is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University, where he teaches African American and African-diasporic literatures, LGBTQ literatures, and literary theory. His most recent books include The Essentialist Villain: On Leo Bersani (2018) and The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature (2014), co-edited with E. L. McCallum. He has published in diacritics, differences, American Literature, Cultural Critique, James Baldwin Review, and elsewhere.