Configurations

Anton Borst is an instructional consultant at New York University’s Center for Faculty Advancement, where he develops programs and services to support effective teaching practices across disciplines. Specializing in antebellum American literature and Romanticism and science, he received his PhD in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and has taught literature and writing at NYU, Hunter College, Baruch College, and Pace University. He is a co-author of The Craft of College Teaching: A Practical Guide (Princeton U. Press, 2020) and co-editor of Critical Reading across the Curriculum, Volumes I and II (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017, 2020).

Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal is Ruth and Paul Idzik College Chair in Digital Scholarship and assistant professor of English and Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. His research is situated at the crossroads of media theory, science and technology studies, and literary criticism. His current book project, Rendering: A Political Diagrammatology of Computation, shows how our cultural narratives, politico-economic formulations, and epistemic beliefs get crystallized into computational hardware and software architectures.

Michael Filas is a professor of English at Westfield State University in Massachusetts, where he teaches American literature and creative writing. His research and creative work consider themes of posthumanism, collage, and medical humanities. His recent work has appeared in The Writing Disorder, the Journal of Experimental Fiction, Eleven Eleven, Specs, Fiction International, The Information Society, and Passages North. Michael’s current project is an analysis of Todd Haynes’s 1995 film Safe in the contexts of Aristotelian tragedy and American societal trends during the late pandemic.

JiHae Koo is an assistant professor of English at Kookmin University, South Korea.

Robert Nguyen is a doctoral candidate in English and Visual Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. His dissertation project examines recursion and failure in literary, film, and television representations of Silicon Valley. His work is forthcoming in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.

Mary Sanders Pollock, professor of English at Stetson University, teaches British literature, environmental studies, and gender studies. She is the editor of two scholarly anthologies and three monographs, including Storytelling Apes: Primatology Narratives Past and Present (Penn State U. Press, 2015) and The Evolution of Gerald Durrell (forthcoming).

Daniel J. Worden, assistant professor of Modern Languages, teaches French and Film Studies at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. His research centers on the relationship between early modern prose fiction, astronomy, and natural philosophy. His articles on the work of Cyrano de Bergerac and Gabriel de Foigny have appeared in Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature and Cahiers du dix-septième, and in collaboration with Judy A. Hayden, he published an English translation of Anne Mauduit de Fatouville’s scenes in Aphra Behn’s ‘Emperor of the Moon’ and Its French Source, ‘Arlequin, Empereur dans la lune’ (Cambridge, UK: MHRA, 2019).