Huang-wen Lai is an author and keen investigator of modern Japanese literature and culture, with a particular focus on colonialism, empire, and cultural identity in early twentieth-century Japan. His research examines Japanese colonial literature, cultural production, and representations of identity across imperial and postcolonial contexts. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in…

Christina Gerhardt is the Leir Chair and Professor. She is also the Co-founding Co-Director of the Environmental Humanities at Clark University; former Barron Visiting Professor of Environmental Humanities at the High Meadows Environment Institute at Princeton University (2021-2022); and a former Senior Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center (2022). Professor Gerhardt is the author or editor of…

Eduard Arriaga is a researcher of language, literature, culture, and digital humanities. He develops interdisciplinary research at the intersection of fields such as critical race studies, Afro-Latinx and Afro-Latin American Studies, digital studies, and digital humanities. He is currently writing a book under contract with Vanderbilt University Press that examines the way Afro-Brazilian marginal communities…