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Bryan Yazell is an Assistant Professor in the Department for the Study of Culture at the University of Southern Denmark and a Humanities Fellow at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study. His research examines precarity and precarious life as the subject of genre fiction, especially in transnational American contexts. This work is supported with assistance from the Danish National Research Foundation (grant no. DNRF127). Recent examples of his scholarship appear in Configurations, Modern Fiction Studies, and Studies in the Fantastic.

Hsuan L. Hsu is a Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on American literature, race studies, cultural geography, sensory studies, and the environmental humanities. His publications include Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain’s Asia and Comparative Racialization (NYU Press, 2015) and The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics (NYU Press, 2020).