Configurations

Sushmita Chatterjee is chair and professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and Women's and Gender Studies at Colorado State University. Her research interests include postcolonial studies, animal studies, and queer-feminist theory. Her book Postcolonial Hauntings: Play and Transnational Feminism is forthcoming (U. Illinois Press).

Aaron R. Hanlon is an associate professor of English and chair of the Science, Technology, and Society Department at Colby College. He is the author of A World of Disorderly Notions: Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism (U. Virginia Press, 2019), Empirical Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Cambridge U. Press, 2022), and co-editor of British Literature and Technology, 1600–1830 (Bucknell U. Press, 2023).

Huan He is an assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt University. His research engages Asian American literature and culture, digital studies, and critical game studies. Currently titled The Racial Interface, his book project examines the racial associations linking Asian Americans and information technologies. His research has been published in College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies and Media-N. He also writes poetry, which appears/is forthcoming in Poetry, Sewanee Review, A Public Space, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. [End Page 71]

Banu Subramaniam is a professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. Trained as a plant evolutionary biologist, Banu engages the feminist studies of science in the practices of experimental biology and is the author of Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism (U. Washington Press 2024), Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism (U. Washington Press, 2019), Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity (U. Illinois Press, 2014). Banu's current work focuses on decolonizing botany and the relationship of science and religious nationalism in India. [End Page 72]