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From the Editor in Chief

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Paula Rabinowitz

of the University of Minnesota on shaping the future of literature scholarship.
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Tariq Ali

Writer, Journalist, Filmmaker

 

Nancy Armstrong

Professor of English

 

Dinah Birch

University of Liverpool

 

Colin Burrow

University of Oxford

 

Rey Chow

Duke University

 

Rita Copeland

University of Pennsylvania

 

Nuruddin Farah

Author

 

Simon Gikandi

Princeton University

 

Alessandro Portelli

University of Roma-La Sapienza

 

Bruce Robbins

Columbia University

 

Beatriz Sarlo

Literary and Cultural Critic

 

Vincent Sherry

Teacher and Author

 

Hortense Spillers

Vanderbilt University

 

Paul Strohm

Columbia University

 

Henry Woudhuysen

Fellow of the British Academy

 

Jack Zipes

University of Minnesota

 
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