Notes on Contributors

Sarah Balakrishnan is assistant professor of history at Duke University. She received a PhD in history from Harvard University in 2020 and a bachelor's in history from McGill University in 2014. She is the recipient of the 2024 article prize in gender and history from the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. Sarah's writing has featured in prestigious venues such as the Journal of African History, Journal of Social History, and Comparative Studies in Society and History. In her spare time, Sarah is an award-winning fiction writer.Viola Bao is a PhD student in the Comparative Literary Studies Program and English Department at Northwestern University. She is working on a dissertation on global Maoism and 1960s–70s social and literary movements. She is a literary critic and regular contributor to the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter.Paresh Chandra is an assistant professor of English at Williams College. He is interested in poetry and poetics, questions of form and organization in literature and politics, critical and postcolonial theory, and histories of political struggle and critique. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Radical Notes, Critique, The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and World Literature, and Kant and Literature Studies (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Literature).Jodi Dean is an American political theorist and professor in the Department of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in New York State.Sara Edenheim is associate professor of history and gender studies at Umeå University, Sweden. Using feminist theory and critical policy analysis, she works on the development of the welfare state and its ongoing changes, with a specific focus on temporality and history as constitutive for identitarian claims.Alva Gotby is a writer and organizer. She was born in Stockholm and lives in London. She holds an MA in philosophy and contemporary critical theory from Kingston University and a PhD in media studies from University of West London. She writes about Marxist feminist theory and politics. Her first book, They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life (2023), explores emotion and the reproduction of labor power. Her second book, Feeling at Home: Transforming the Politics of Housing (2025), investigates housing and domesticity as aspects of the reproduction of life under capitalism.Jishnu Guha-Majumdar is an assistant professor of political theory at Butler University. His research has been published in Political Theory, Angelaki, Palimpsest, and Capitalism Nature Socialism. His book manuscript in progress theorizes the political import of screams and cries as a way to relate the suffering of marginalized humans, animals, and ecological entities.Christian Haines is a professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of A Desire Called America: Biopolitics, Utopia, and the Literary Commons (2019).Jo Littler is professor of culture, media, and social analysis at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her most recent books are Left Feminisms (2023); with The Care Collective, The Care Manifesto (2020); and Against Meritocracy (2018).Elliot C. Mason is a communist researcher and organizer in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the author of The Instagram Archipelago: Race, Gender, and the Lives of Dead Fish (2022) and coeditor, with Valentina Moro, of Judith Butler and Marxism: The Radical Feminism of Performativity, Vulnerability, and Care (2025). His essays, translations, and reviews are widely published.Brittany Murray is assistant professor of French at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century French literature, cinema, and culture and migration. Her work has appeared in ASAP/J, EuropeNow, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Short Film Studies, French Cultural Studies, and the Comparatist, among other publications. Her forthcoming monograph focuses on French culture in the 1970s, focusing on representations of historicity in literature and film during a period of transition.Mathias Nilges is professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. His most recent books are How to Read a Moment: The American Novel and the Crisis of the Present (2021) and (coedited with Mitch R. Murray) the collection of essays William Gibson and the Futures of Contemporary Culture (2021).Oded Nir teaches Hebrew and Israeli culture at Queens College, the City University of New York. His work explores the ways Hebrew culture thinks through the contradictions of capitalism in Palestine/Israel. His first book is a history of Hebrew fiction; his next book focuses on the spatial logic of contemporary Israeli film. His work has been published in the journals Criticism, Rethinking Marxism, ASAP/Journal, and others. Oded is coeditor of the peer-reviewed quarterly CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture.Sarah Philipson Isaac is a researcher in sociology at Gothenburg University. She is the author of Temporal Dispossession: The Politics of Asylum and the Remaking of Racial Capitalism in and beyond the Borders of the Swedish Welfare State (2024), researching the intersecting fields of racial capitalism, welfare studies, and critical border studies.Phillip E. Wegner is the Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar and Professor of English at the University of Florida, where he has taught since 1994, and the director of the Working Group for the Study of Critical Theory. He is the author of numerous essays and five previous books: Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity (2002); Life between Two Deaths: U.S. Culture, 1989–2001 (2009); Periodizing Jameson: Dialectics, the University, and the Desire for Narrative (2014); Shockwaves of Possibility: Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia (2014); and most recently, Invoking Hope: Theory and Utopia in Dark Times (2020); as well as the forthcoming Late Theory; Jameson, or, The Persistence of Reading.

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