Contributor Biographies

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Hamilton Carroll is an associate professor of English at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Affirmative Reaction: New Formations of White Masculinity (Duke, 2011).

Sharae Deckard is a lecturer in World Literature at University College Dublin. She is author of Paradise Discourse, Imperialism and Globalization (Routledge, 2010) and co-author with the Warwick Research Collective of Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature (Liverpool, 2015). Her research centers on world-ecology and world-systems approaches to world literature.

Christian P. Haines is an assistant professor of English at Dartmouth College. His book, A Desire Called America: Biopolitics, Utopia, and the Literary Commons (Fordham, 2019) is forthcoming. He is co-editor of a special issue of Cultural Critique, “What Comes After the Subject?” (Spring 2017). His work has appeared in journals including Angelaki, boundary 2, Criticism, and Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory, as well as in collections such as The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics.

Dan Hassler-Forest works as an assistant professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Utrecht University. He has published books and articles on superhero movies, comics, transmedia storytelling, science fiction, critical theory, Tom Cruise, and zombies.

Caren Irr is a professor of English at Brandeis University. She is the author, most recently, of Toward the Geopolitical Novel: U.S. Fiction in the 21st Century (Columbia, 2013).

Eli Jelly-Schapiro is an assistant professor of English at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Security and Terror: American Culture and the Long History of Colonial Modernity (University of California, 2018).

Liam Kennedy is a professor of American Studies and Director of the Clinton Institute for American Studies at University College Dublin. He is the author of Afterimages: Photography and US Foreign Policy (Chicago, 2016).

Donald E. Pease is the Ted and Helen Geisel professor in the Humanities and Founding Director of the Futures Of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth. He is the author or editor of 12 books including Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context, Cultures of US Imperialism, The New American Exceptionalism, and most recently American Studies as Transnational Practice: Turning toward the Transpacific.

Stephen Shapiro teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. His recent publications include Pentecostal Modernism: Lovecraft, Los Angeles, and World-Systems Culture (with Philip Barnard, Bloomsbury, 2017) and Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature (co-authored as part of the Warwick Research Collective [WReC], Liverpool, 2015).

Myka Tucker-Abramson is an assistant professor of American Literature at the University of Warwick. Her work has appeared in PMLA, Modern Fiction Studies, and Edu-Factory. She is the author of Novel Shocks: Urban Renewal and the Origins of Neoliberalism (Fordham, 2018).

Citation: “Contributor Biographies.” In Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature, edited by Liam Kennedy and Stephen Shapiro. Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College Press, 2019. https://pub.dartmouth.edu/ncal/contributor-biographies.