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Contemporary Literature Editorial Board

 

Executive Editor

Timothy Yu, University of Wisconsin–Madison

 

Editors

POETRY

Evie Shockley, Rutgers University

AMERICAN FICTION

Steven Belletto, Lafayette College
Michael LeMahieu, Clemson University

BRITISH AND ANGLOPHONE FICTION

David James, University of Birmingham

 

Associate Editors

POETRY

Alan Golding, University of Louisville
Margaret Ronda, University of California, Davis

AMERICAN FICTION

Heather Houser, University of Texas at Austin
Jessica Pressman, San Diego State University

BRITISH AND ANGLOPHONE FICTION

Angela Naimou, Clemson University

 

Book Review Editors

POETRY

Lisa Hollenbach, Oklahoma State University

AMERICAN FICTION

Sunny Xiang, Yale University

BRITISH AND ANGLOPHONE FICTION

Janice Ho, University of Colorado–Boulder

 

Editorial Staff

MANAGING EDITOR

Eileen R. Ewing

Project Assistant

Sara Gabler Thomas

EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS

Addie Hopes
Marek Makowski
Johs Rasmussen
Andrew Thomas

 

Board of Editorial Consultants

Charles Altieri, University of California, Berkeley
Rita Barnard, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Bérubé, Pennsylvania State University
Timothy Bewes, Brown University
Leslie Bow, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Sarah Brouillette, Carleton University
Mrinalini Chakravorty, University of Virginia
Hillary Chute, Northeastern University
Robert J. Corber, Trinity College
Michael Davidson, University of California, San Diego
Aparna Dharwadker, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Amy Elias, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Merve Emre, University of Oxford
Mary Esteve, Concordia University
Susan Stanford Friedman, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thomas Gardner, Virginia Polytechnic and State University
Caren Irr, Brandeis University
Joseph Jeon, Pomona College
Lynn Keller, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Heather Love, University of Pennsylvania
John Marx, University of California, Davis
Ankhi Mukherjee, University of Oxford
Aldon Nielsen, Pennsylvania State University
Rafael Pérez-Torres, University of California, Los Angeles
Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University
Rita Raley, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sangeeta Ray, University of Maryland
Eric Selinger, DePaul University
Joseph Tabbi, University of Illinois–Chicago
Nirvana Tanoukhi, Dartmouth College
Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Rutgers University

 

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