Studies in the Novel

Marco Caracciolo is Associate Professor of English and Literary Theory at Ghent University in Belgium. He is the author of several books, including most recently Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities (University of Nebraska Press, 2022) and Contemporary Narrative and the Spectrum of Materiality (De Gruyter, 2023).

Roberto del Valle Alcalá is Associate Professor of English Literature at Södertörn University in Stockholm, Sweden. He has published extensively on labor, class, and capital in modern and contemporary fiction, including the monographs British Working-Class Literature: Narratives of Refusal and the Struggle Against Work (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction: Literature Beyond Fordism (Routledge, 2019).

Liliana M. Naydan is Associate Professor of English at Penn State Abington. She studies twenty-first-century literature, and her work has appeared in journals such as Critique, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, and Studies in American Fiction. She is author of Flat-World Fiction (University of Georgia Press, 2021) and Rhetorics of Religion in American Fiction (Bucknell University Press, 2016).

Iana W. Robitaille is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Texas at Austin whose research focuses on post-1945 American literature and culture, race and immigration, and postcolonialism. Her dissertation examines the operative political and aesthetic logic of inheritance—via modern regimes of property, heredity, and heritage—in contemporary transnational US fiction.

Pamela L. Weidman is a PhD candidate in English with an emphasis in Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley. Her current research focuses on experimental character in twentieth-century novels and animated film.