Denise Cruz is an assistant professor of English at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Transpacific Femininities: the Making of the Modern Filipina (Duke, 2012) and the editor of Yay Panlilio’s The Crucible: An Autobiography of Colonel Yay, Filipina American Guerrilla (Rutgers, 2009). Other articles have appeared or are forthcoming in American Quarterly, PMLA, Modern Fiction Studies, American Literature, American Literary History, and in the collection Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader. She is currently working on two book projects: a study of Philippine couture and its connections to the Global South, and an analysis of the importance of regions and regionalism to Asian America.
Melba Cuddy-Keane is Emerita Professor, University of Toronto (UTSC) and an Emerita Faculty Member of the Graduate Department of English. Her publications include Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere (2003), the Harcourt annotated edition of Woolf’s Between the Acts (2008), and, co-authored with Adam Hammond and Alexandra Peat, Modernism: Keywords (2014). Most recently, she has written an essay on embodied cognition in To the Lighthouse,” forthcoming in the Cambridge Companion to that novel, and an essay on the tension between July 4 (1776) and August 4, 1914 in Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier, for a volume marking the centenary of that novel’s publication in 1915. Her current major project is a book entitled "Rich Environments: Narrative Pluralism and Cognitive Flexibility."
Maud Ellmann is currently the Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English at the University of Chicago. She has previously held the Donald and Marilyn Keough Chair of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and a Readership in Modern Literature at Cambridge University. She has written widely on modern literature and literary theory, especially psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and feminism. Her books include The Poetics of Impersonality: T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound;Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism (ed); The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing, and Imprisonment; Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page; and The Nets of Modernism: James, Woolf, Joyce, and Freud.
Paul Saint-Amour teaches in the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination ( Oxford, 2003) and the editor of Modernism and Copyright (2011). Saint-Amour co-edits, with Jessica Berman, the Modernist Latitudes series at Columbia UP and served as President of the Modernist Studies Association in 2012-13. His new book, Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form, will be published byOxford UP in 2015.
Robert McGill is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. His book The Treacherous Imagination: Intimacy, Ethics, and Autobiographical Fiction was published by Ohio State University Press in 2013. He is also the author of two novels, Once We Had a Country (2013) and The Mysteries (2004). He is presently at work on a book considering the effects of the Vietnam War on Canadian nationalism.
Vincent Sherry is the Howard Nemerov Professor of English at Washington University in St Louis, where he teaches British and Irish Modernism. His newest book, Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence (Cambridge, 2014), traces the idea of decadence back to key events from the failures of the French Revolution to the cataclysm of the Great War. Professor Sherry is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War (Cambridge, 2005) and the author of four other books: The Great War and the Language of Modernism (Oxford, 2004); James Joyce: Ulysses (Cambridge, 1995); Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Radical Modernism (Oxford, 1993); and The Uncommon Tongue: The Poetry and Criticism of Geoffrey Hill (Michigan, 1987).