Sarah Blacker is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. Her research uses cultural analysis, historical, and ethnographic methods to explore the politics of race and ethnicity in public health and genomics.

Sarah Brophy is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. She has contributed to journals such as a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Contemporary Women's Writing, Interventions, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, and PMLA. She is the author of Witnessing AIDS: Writing, Testimony, and the Work of Mourning (2004), and, with Janice Hladki, co‐editor of Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography (2014).

Sarah Brouillette is Professor in the Department of English at Carleton University, where she teaches contemporary literature alongside topics in cultural theory and social and political thought. She is the author of Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace (2007) and Literature and the Creative Economy (2014).

William Callison is a PhD candidate in political science with designated emphasis in critical theory at the University of California, Berkeley. He is special issue editor of “Rethinking Sovereignty and Capitalism” in the journal Qui Parle, co‐editor of “Europe at a Crossroads” on the website Near Futures Online, and co‐editor of a forthcoming collected volume on neoliberalism and biopolitics.

Marija Cetinić is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at York University. Her dissertation was a comparative study of sadness as a characteristic mood in recent American and Southeast European fiction. Signs of Autumn: The Aesthetics of Saturation, her current project, focuses on the concept of saturation, and on developing its implications for the relation of contemporary art and aesthetics to political economy.

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She is author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (2006), Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (2011), and Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (2016). She is working on a monograph entitled Discriminating Data: Neighborhoods, Proxies, Individuals.

Jeff Diamanti is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Media@McGill at McGill University, and is the co‐editor of Contemporary Marxist Theory as well as the forthcoming collections on Materialism and the Critique of Energy (MCM Prime Press), The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx, and a special double issue of Resilience on “Climate Realism.”

Veit Erlmann is an anthropologist/ethnomusicologist and the Endowed Chair of Music History at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published widely on music and popular culture in South Africa, including African Stars: Studies in Black South African Performance; Nightsong: Performance, Power and Practice in South Africa; and Music, Modernity and the Global Imagination: South Africa and the West. His most recent publication is Reason and Resonance: A History of Modern Aurality (2010). Currently he is working on a book on intellectual property law in the South African music industry.

Ghassan Hage is Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne. His recent books are Alter‐Politics: Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imagination (2015) and Is Racism an Environmental Threat? (2017).

Rosemary Hennessy is L. H. Favrot Professor of Humanities, Professor of English, and Director of the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University. Her recent books are Fires on the Border: The Passionate Politics of Labor Organizing on the Mexican Frontera (2013) and Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism (2000).

Ben Highmore is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. His most recent books are Culture: Key Ideas in Media and Cultural Studies (2016) and The Great Indoors: At Home in the Modern British House (2014). The books The Art of Brutalism: Rescuing Hope from Catastrophe in 1950s Britain and Cultural Feelings: Mood, Mediation, and Cultural Politics are being published in 2017.

Peter Hitchcock is a Professor of English at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His books include Labor in Culture: Worker of the World(s); Dialogics of the Oppressed; Oscillate Wildly; Imaginary States; and The Long Space. He has also co‐edited a book on the new public intellectual. Hitchcock is currently completing a study on the world according to postcoloniality.

Sean Homer is Professor of Film and Literature at the American University in Bulgaria. He is author of Fredric Jameson: Marxism, Hermeneutics, Postmodernism (1998), the Routledge Critical Thinkers introduction to Jacques Lacan (2005), and Slavoj Žižek and Radical Politics (2016). He is currently writing a book on Balkan cinema, history, and cultural trauma.

Miranda Joseph, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Arizona, is the author of Debt to Society: Accounting for Life Under Capitalism (2014) and Against the Romance of Community (2002).

Neil ten Kortenaar is a Professor of English at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is the author of Self, Nation, Text in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (2004) and Postcolonial Literature and the Impact of Literacy (2011).

Rauna Kuokkanen (Sámi from Finland) is Associate Professor of Political Science and Indigenous Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Reshaping the University: Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes and the Logic of the Gift (2007) and Boaris dego eana: Eamiálbmogiid diehtu, filosofiijat ja dutkan (As Old as the Earth: Indigenous Knowledge, Philosophies and Research) (2009). Her most recent book, Restructuring Relations: Indigenous Self‐Determination and Governance in Canada, Greenland and Scandinavia (forthcoming in 2017), is an indigenous feminist examination of indigenous politics.

Stephanie LeMenager is Barbara and Carlisle Moore Professor of English and Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon. Her publications include the books Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century; Manifest and Other Destinies; and the co‐edited collections Environmental Criticism for the Twenty‐First Century; Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities; and (forthcoming) Literature and Environment: Critical and Primary Sources. Her forthcoming monograph treats the role of the humanities in the era of global climate change. She is a founding editor of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities.

Randy Martin was Professor and Chair of Art and Public Policy at New York University. Recent books include Under New Management: Universities, Administrative Labor, and the Professional Turn (2011), An Empire of Indifference: American War and the Financial Logic of Risk Management (2007), and Financialization of Daily Life (2002). He passed away in 2015.

Toby Miller is Emeritus Distinguished Professor, University of California, Riverside; Sir Walter Murdoch Professor of Cultural Policy Studies, Murdoch University; Profesor Invitado, Universidad del Norte; Professor of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University/Prifysgol Caerdydd; and Director of the Institute of Media and Creative Industries, Loughborough University London. He has written and edited over forty books.

Anna Mollow is the co‐editor, with Robert McRuer, of Sex and Disability (Duke, 2012) and the co‐editor, with Merri Lisa Johnson, of DSM‐CRIP (Social Text Online, 2013). Her essays on disability, queerness, feminism, race, and fatness have appeared, or are forthcoming, in African American Review; Body Politics: Zeitschrift für Körpergeschichte; Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy; The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies; WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly; MELUS: Multi‐Ethnic Literature of the United States; The Disability Studies Reader; Michigan Quarterly Review; Disability Studies Quarterly; Bitch magazine; Autostraddle; Everyday Feminism; and Huffington Post.

Amber Jamilla Musser is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (2014) and is currently at work on a project entitled “Brown Jouissance” on race, femininity, and fleshiness.

Michael O’Driscoll is Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, where he is also Associate Dean of Research and editor of ESC: English Studies in Canada. He teaches and publishes in the fields of critical and cultural theories with a particular emphasis on deconstruction and psychoanalysis, and his expertise in twentieth‐century American literature focuses particularly on poetry and poetics. He has published in journals such as Modernism/modernity, Contemporary Literature, Studies in the Literary Imagination, and Mosaic.

Andrew Pendakis is Assistant Professor of Theory and Rhetoric at Brock University and a Research Fellow at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. His research focuses broadly on contemporary liberal culture with a special interest in the genealogy of centrist reason in the West. He is a co‐editor of Contemporary Marxist Theory: A Reader and presently at work on a monograph entitled Critique of Centrist Reason.

James Penney is the author of After Queer Theory: The Limits of Sexual Politics (2014), The Structures of Love: Art and Politics beyond the Transference (2012), and The World of Perversion: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Absolute of Desire (2006). He is Professor of Cultural Studies and French at Trent University, Canada.

Nina Power is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Roehampton and Tutor in Critical Writing in Art and Design at the Royal College of Art.

Jason Read is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of The Micro‐Politics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present (SUNY 2003) and The Politics of Transindividuality (Brill 2015/Haymarket 2016). He has published essays on Spinoza, Deleuze, Foucault, and The Wire.

Marie‐Laure Ryan is an independent scholar based in Colorado. She is the author of Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory (1991), Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media (2001, 2nd edition 2015), Avatars of Story (2006), and Narrating Space/Spatializing Narrative (2016, with Kenneth Foote and Maoz Azaryahu). Her scholarly work has earned her the Prize for Independent Scholars and the Jeanne and Aldo Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literature, both from the Modern Language Association, and she has been the recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships.

Jerilyn Sambrooke is a PhD candidate in the Rhetoric Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on figurations of religious fanaticism in contemporary fiction. She works at the intersection of literary studies, political theory, anthropology, and philosophy.

Paul Smith teaches in the Cultural Studies PhD program at George Mason University. He is author of many books including Discerning the Subject (1988), Millennial Dreams: Culture and Capital in the North (1997), and Primitive America: The Ideology of Capitalist Democracy (2007), and he has edited several volumes including The Renewal of Cultural Studies (2011). He is currently working on a book about deglobalization.

Min Hyoung Song is Professor of English at Boston College, where he directs the Asian American Studies program. Song is the author of two books, The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American (2013) and Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots (2005).

Will Straw is Professor within the Department of Art History and Communications Studies at McGill University in Montreal. He is the author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 1950s America, and co‐editor of several books, including Circulation and the City: Essays on Urban Culture.

Justin Sully is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture, and Film at Brock University. He is currently working on a book on the popular culture of statistics.

Imre Szeman conducts research on energy and the environment, and on the cultures of contemporary capitalism. Recent books include After Oil (co‐writer), Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment (co‐editor), and Energy Humanities: An Anthology (co‐editor).

Myka Tucker‐Abramson is a lecturer in contemporary literature at King’s College London. Her research explores the relationship between post‐World War II U.S. novels, urban renewal projects, and the rise of neoliberalism.

Priscilla Wald is R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English and Margaret Taylor Smith Director of the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. Her books include Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative (2008) and Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form (1995). She is currently at work on a book‐length study entitled Human Being After Genocide.

Jennifer Wenzel is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond (2009), and the co‐editor, with Imre Szeman and Patricia Yaeger, of Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment (2017).