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Contributors Eva Cherniavsky is the Andrew R. Hilen Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Washington. She is the author of That Pale Mother Rising: Sentimental Discourses and the Imitation of Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century America (Indiana University Press, 1995) and of Incorporations: Race, Nation, and the Body Politics of Capital (University of Minnesota Press, 2006). Her current research considers the changing contours of the political in the context of neoliberal governance, with an emphasis on the reimagination of citizenship in popular culture. Shelley Fisher Fishkin, the Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities, a professor of English, and the director of American studies at Stanford University, is the award-winning author, editor, or coeditor of over forty books and over a hundred articles, essays, columns, and reviews. She holds a PhD in American studies from Yale University and is a former president of the American Studies Association and a founding editor of the Journal of Transnational American Studies. Paul Giles is the Challis Professor of English at the University of Sydney, in Australia. His most recent book is Antipodean America: Australasia and the Constitution of U.S. Literature (Oxford University Press, 2013). Alfred Hornung is a research professor in the Institute of Transnational American Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, and a specialist in postmodern American culture and transcultural life writing. He was a fellow at Harvard University, Yale University, and the National Humanities Center, and he is a member of the Center for Cross-Cultural Studies at Peking University. He received the Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize in 2013 and was elected a member of Academia Europaea: The Academy of Europe for Letters, the Humanities and Natural Sciences in 2014. Walter D. Mignolo is the William H. Wannamaker Professor and director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University. His work has been [392] Contributors translated into Chinese, Korean, Indonesian, German, Italian, Rumanian, French, Swedish, Spanish, and Portuguese. Viet Thanh Nguyen is an associate professor of English and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California, as well as the coeditor of Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field. He is also the author of Race and Resistance : Literature and Politics in Asian America and a novel, The Sympathizer. Donald E. Pease, a professor of English and comparative literature, the Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities, and chair of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program at Dartmouth College, is an authority on nineteenthand twentieth-century American literature and literary theory and the founder and director of the Futures of American Studies Institute. He has authored numerous books, including Theodor Seuss Geisel, and over a hundred articles on figures in American and British literature. He serves as the editor of the New Americanist series at Duke University Press, which has transformed the field of American studies. Rafael Pérez-Torres, a professor of English at UCLA, has authored three books: Movements in Chicano Poetry: Against Myths, Against Margins (Cambridge University Press, 1995); Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2006); and To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back: Memories of an East L.A. Outlaw, written with Ernest B. López (University of Texas Press, 2005). Pérez-Torres's current work addresses the role of modernity and modernization in the shaping of Chicana/o culture. John Carlos Rowe is the USC Associates' Professor of the Humanities and a professor of English and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California, where he has served as chair of the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity. He is the author of nine books, more than 150 essays and reviews, and editor or coeditor of ten books, including Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism: From the Revolution to World War

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