Elizabeth Maddock Dillon is a professor of English at Northeastern University whose research interests include Early American literature and drama; feminist, political and aesthetic theory; transatlantic print culture; Atlantic colonialism; and the early novel. In her first book, The Gender of Freedom: Fictions of Liberalism and the Literary Public Sphere (Stanford UP, 2004), Dillon argues that narratives of citizenship and subjectivity within liberalism include - and, indeed, rely upon - depictions of women that encourage affective identification as an unspoken political act and thereby complicate the distinction between private and public spheres. Currently, Dillon is working on her manuscript for New World Drama: Theatre of the Atlantic, 1660-1850, as well as co-editing a volume of essays on early American culture and the Haitian Revolution.
Jodi Dean is a professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. She teaches broadly within modern and contemporary political theory, ranging from feminism to fascism, consumption, and citizenship. Her research interests include digital media; poststructuralism and psychoanalysis; neoliberalism and consumerism; cultural studies; and feminism theory. Dean's impressive list of publications boasts numerous journal articles, contributions to collected volumes, and seven monographs including Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics (Duke UP, 2009), Publicity’s Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy (Cornell UP, 2002), and her forthcoming work, The Communist Horizon (Verso, October 2012). Dean has edited and co-edited several collected volumes addressing questions of feminism, empire, and information networks. Dean also serves as co-editor of Theory and Event, an electronic academic journal published quarterly by John Hopkins University Press.
Sean McCann is a professor and chair of the English department at Wesleyan University. He specializes in post-Civil War American Literature, specifically in relation to contemporaneous political developments and discourses. He is the author of A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government (Princeton UP, 2008) and Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism (Duke UP, 2000), which received honorable mention for the America Studies Association's John Hope Franklin Prize for the best book in American Studies. Currently, McCann runs a research seminar on the New York Intellectuals and their relationship to postwar American culture. His essays have appeared in American Quarterly, The Common Review, ELH, Radical History Review, Twentieth-Century Literature, Studies in American Fiction, the Yale Journal of Criticism, as well as several edited volumes including Poetics/Politics: Radical Aesthetics for the Classroom (St. Martin's Press, 1999).
Gene Jarrett is a professor of English and African American Studies at Boston University, where he specializes in African American literature and culture from the 18th century to the present; intellectual and literary history of the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries; race, ethnic, and cultural studies; and theories of literature, aesthetics, and intellectual historiography. He is the author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature (NYU, 2011) and Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature (Penn, 2007). Jarrett has also edited and co-edited six volumes on African American literature and criticism, including most recently A Companion to African American Literature (Blackwell, 2010), The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Ohio UP, 2009), and The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 (Princeton UP, 2007). Jarrett's current project is a monograph on the life, literature, and times of African American writer Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Jodi Dean is a professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. She teaches broadly within modern and contemporary political theory, ranging from feminism to fascism, consumption, and citizenship. Her research interests include digital media; poststructuralism and psychoanalysis; neoliberalism and consumerism; cultural studies; and feminism theory. Dean's impressive list of publications boasts numerous journal articles, contributions to collected volumes, and seven monographs including Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics (Duke UP, 2009), Publicity’s Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy (Cornell UP, 2002), and her forthcoming work, The Communist Horizon (Verso, October 2012). Dean has edited and co-edited several collected volumes addressing questions of feminism, empire, and information networks. Dean also serves as co-editor of Theory and Event, an electronic academic journal published quarterly by John Hopkins University Press.
Sean McCann is a professor and chair of the English department at Wesleyan University. He specializes in post-Civil War American Literature, specifically in relation to contemporaneous political developments and discourses. He is the author of A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government (Princeton UP, 2008) and Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism (Duke UP, 2000), which received honorable mention for the America Studies Association's John Hope Franklin Prize for the best book in American Studies. Currently, McCann runs a research seminar on the New York Intellectuals and their relationship to postwar American culture. His essays have appeared in American Quarterly, The Common Review, ELH, Radical History Review, Twentieth-Century Literature, Studies in American Fiction, the Yale Journal of Criticism, as well as several edited volumes including Poetics/Politics: Radical Aesthetics for the Classroom (St. Martin's Press, 1999).
Gene Jarrett is a professor of English and African American Studies at Boston University, where he specializes in African American literature and culture from the 18th century to the present; intellectual and literary history of the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries; race, ethnic, and cultural studies; and theories of literature, aesthetics, and intellectual historiography. He is the author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature (NYU, 2011) and Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature (Penn, 2007). Jarrett has also edited and co-edited six volumes on African American literature and criticism, including most recently A Companion to African American Literature (Blackwell, 2010), The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Ohio UP, 2009), and The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 (Princeton UP, 2007). Jarrett's current project is a monograph on the life, literature, and times of African American writer Paul Laurence Dunbar.
