• Notes on Contributors

Leah Marie Becker is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work considers the intersection of the environmental humanities, ecoconsumerism, and nineteenth-century domestic ideology. Her previous articles have appeared in Edge Effects (2021) and Render: Food and Feminist Quarterly (2014). She is currently writing her dissertation, preliminarily titled "Living Clean and Shopping Green: A Nineteenth-Century Domestic Prehistory of Ecoconsumption.

Joseph Allen Boone holds an endowed chair for Gender and Media Studies and is a professor of English at the University of Southern California. The author of The Homoerotics of Orientalism (Columbia University Press, 2015), Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism (University of Chicago Press, 1997), and Tradition Counter Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction (University of Chicago Press, 1987), he is completing a book on "the Melville effect" in contemporary art and culture from which this essay is culled. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEH, ACLS, the Huntington, the Rockefeller, the National Humanities Center, and the Stanford Humanities Center, Boone has just published his first novel, Furnace Creek (BSPG 2022).

Jeffory A. Clymer is a professor of English at the University of Kentucky. He is at work on a book exploring finance and risk in American fiction.

Seth Cosimini is a teaching assistant professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. His work focuses on the literature, culture, and thought of the African diaspora; nineteenth-century American literature and culture; and cultural studies. In his current book project, he examines "classic" American literature through post-1968 Black thought and argues that racial terror fundamentally structures American romance of the nineteenth century and into its afterlives.

Jane Im is a recent Ph.D. graduate from the English Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation "'The Everyday Affective Life of Racism': Forms of Racial Melancholia in Early Asian American Literature" argues that racial melancholia is an everyday, stoic, weakly intentional, past-oriented, and collective affect. Her recent publications include "Allusion, Quotation, and Pastiche in Younghill Kang's The Grass Roof and East Goes West" in Studies in the Novel (2020) and "Plant Life in Louise Erdrich's The Beet Queen" in Studies in American Indian Literatures (2021).

Veronica Makowsky is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Connecticut. She has published books on Caroline Gordon, Susan Glaspell, and Valerie Martin and articles on American women's, southern, and ethnic literature. She is an emeritus editor of MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States).

• 贡献者注释

Leah Marie Becker 是伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校英语系的博士生。她的作品考虑了环境人文、生态消费主义和 19 世纪国内意识形态的交集。她之前的文章出现在边缘效应（2021 年）和渲染：食品和女权主义季刊（2014 年）中。她目前正在撰写她的论文，初步题目为“生活清洁和购物绿色：19 世纪国内生态消费史前史”。

约瑟夫·艾伦·布恩 (Joseph Allen Boone) 是性别与媒体研究的捐赠主席，并且是南加州大学的英语教授。作者着有《东方主义的同性恋》（哥伦比亚大学出版社，2015 年）、《欲望潮流：性与现代主义的塑造》（芝加哥大学出版社，1997 年）和《反传统：爱情与小说形式》（芝加哥大学出版社， 1987），他正在完成一本关于当代艺术和文化中的“梅尔维尔效应”的书，这篇文章就是从中挑选出来的。作为古根海姆基金会、NEH、ACLS、亨廷顿、洛克菲勒、国家人文中心和斯坦福人文中心的奖学金获得者，布恩刚刚出版了他的第一部小说，炉溪(BSPG 2022)。

Jeffory A. Clymer 是肯塔基大学的英语教授。他正在写一本探讨美国小说中的金融和风险的书。

Seth Cosimini 是内华达大学里诺分校的英语助教教授。他的工作侧重于非洲侨民的文学、文化和思想；十九世纪的美国文学和文化；和文化研究。在他目前的书籍项目中，他通过 1968 年后的黑人思想审视了“经典”美国文学，并认为种族恐怖从根本上构建了 19 世纪的美国浪漫及其来世。

Jane Im 是最近获得的博士学位。毕业于伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校英语系。她的论文“‘种族主义的日常情感生活’：早期亚裔美国文学中的种族忧郁症的形式”认为，种族忧郁症是一种日常的、坚忍的、弱意识的、以过去为导向的集体情感。她最近的出版物包括小说研究（2020）中的“ Younghill Kang的The Grass Roof and East Goes West”中的“典故，引用和模仿”和美国印第安文学研究中的“ Louise Erdrich的植物生命” （2021） .

Veronica Makowsky 是康涅狄格大学的英语名誉教授。她出版了关于卡罗琳·戈登、苏珊·格拉斯佩尔和瓦莱丽·马丁的书籍，以及关于美国妇女、南方和民族文学的文章。她是MELUS（美国多民族文学）的名誉编辑。