Professor Spencer Tricker specializes in American literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While this literature has traditionally been studied in view of transatlantic cultural contexts, Professor Tricker’s work emphasizes transpacific connections among the Americas, East and Southeast Asia, and Oceania. His manuscript-in-progress, Imminent Communities: Liberal Cosmopolitanism and Empire in Transpacific Literature, studies the uses…

Justin P. Shaw is an Assistant Professor of English at Clark University where he teaches and researches Shakespeare and early modern English literature. His work explores the intersections of race, emotions, and disability in 16th and 17th Century texts. He is completing a book project, “Melancholy Marks: Emotion and Race-Making in Early Modern English Literature”,…

Professor Gutmann-Gonzalez is a Chilean poet and novelist working at the intersections of text, performance, archive, and translation. They specialize in creative writing (hybrid texts, poetry, fiction) and Latinx literature. They are the author of the novel La Pava (Ediciones Inubicalistas) and the poetry chapbook A/An (End of the Line Press). They hold an MFA in Poetry…

Professor Blake specializes in gender and sexuality studies, food studies, and global modernist literature. Her research focuses on the ways queer pleasure is represented in the literature of the early twentieth century, and how those representations come to reshape existing literary forms. Her first book, Edible Arrangements: Modernism’s Queer Forms, demonstrates that scenes of eating in…