Editorial Board

NANCY ARMSTRONG

is the Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Professor of English. She teaches courses in the novel, 18th- through 21st-century literature and cultures in English, and critical theory, and she serves as editor of the journal Novel: A Forum on Fiction, a position she has held since 1996. Armstrong has devoted her career to explaining how novels imagine a world that can be inhabited (or not) in specific ways by historically and culturally variable readerships. Her most recent book (co-authored with Leonard Tennenhouse) is titled Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing (2017).

COLIN BURROW

is Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford. Research interests lie in the relations between Renaissance literature and its classical forebears, as well as in early Tudor literature, Spenser, Jonson, Milton, and Shakespeare. Burrow is author of many scholarly books and articles, including most recently Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity. He’s also served as editor for ambitious projects like the Oxford Handbooks Online in Literature and Scriptorum, a project for the digitization of a number of manuscript commonplace books. Burrow is a regular contributor to The London Review of Books.

REY CHOW

is Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature at Duke University and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Chow’s research comprises theoretical, interdisciplinary, and textual analyses. She specializes in the making of cultural forms such as literature and film (with particular attention to East Asia, Western Europe, and North America) and in the discursive encounters among modernity, sexuality, post-coloniality, and ethnicity. Her book Primitive Passions was awarded the James Russell Lowell Prize by the Modern Language Association. Before coming to Duke, she was Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University, where she held appointments in the Departments of Comparative Literature, English, and Modern Culture and Media. In her more recent work, Chow is concerned with the legacies of poststructuralist theory (in particular the work of Michel Foucault) for the humanities, the politics of language as an ongoing postcolonial phenomenon, and the shifting paradigms for knowledge and lived experience in the age of digital media technologies. Chow has authored numerous influential monographs, essays, and articles; her writings have appeared in more than ten languages.

RITA COPELAND

is Rosenberg Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Classical Studies, English, and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Her interests range across ancient and medieval literatures, history and theory of rhetoric, literary theory and exegetical traditions, and medieval learning. She has pursued these themes in various publications, especially Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Translation in the Middle Ages; Criticism and Dissent in the Middle Ages; Pedagogy, Intellectuals and Dissent in the Middle Ages; Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric: Language Arts and Literary Theory, AD 300-1475 (with Ineke Sluiter); and The Cambridge Companion to Allegory. Most recently she has edited the Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, 800-1558. She is also a founder of the journal New Medieval Literatures. Her newest project is on rhetoric and the emotions in the long Middle Ages.

NURUDDIN FARAH

is a prominent Somalian writer. He is the winner of the Lee Hochul Literature Prize for Peace 2019 and the author of over 10 books. Farah did his studies mostly in both India and England. Farah published his first novel, From a Crooked Rib, in 1970. He later published his first trilogy novel, between 1979 and 1983, with the overall project title “Variations on the Theme of An African Dictatorship.” These are Sweet and Sour Milk (1979), Sardines (1981) and Close Sesame (1983). His latest novel is Knots (2007), explores the state of Somalia after the war. Farah’s numerous essays include: “People of a Half-Way House” (1996), “My Father, the Englishman, and I” (1997) and “Country Cousins” (1998), amongst many more. In 1998 he was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

SIMON GIKANDI

is Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University and editor of PMLA, the official journal of the Modern Languages Association (MLA). His major fields of research and teaching are the Anglophone literatures and cultures of Africa, India, the Caribbean, and Postcolonial Britain, the “Black” Atlantic and the African Diaspora. He is the author of many books and articles including Slavery and the Culture of Taste (Princeton University Press, 2011), winner of multiple prizes, Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature, and Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism.

ANDREW KAHN

is Professor of Russian Literature at University of Oxford, and Fellow at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. His research interests include Russian poetry, literary history, Enlightenment writing and history of ideas, and translation. He has written and edited books about Alexander Pushkin, and is also author of A History of Russian Literature (with Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman, and Stephanie Sandler) (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Selected Letters of Catherine the Great (trans. and ed. with introduction and notes by Andrew Kahn and Kelsey Rubin-Detlev) (Oxford University Press, 2018). His translation with Irina Reyfman of Alexander Radishchev’s radical work of travel literature, Journey from St Petersburg to Moscow (1790) was published in 2020 by Columbia University Press and was awarded the ‘Best Book of the Year-Literary Translation’ by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Literatures. He is the author of Mandelstam’s Worlds: Poetry, Politics, and Identity in a Revolutionary Age (OUP, 2020) and has also written The Short Story: A Very Short Introduction (2021). Current projects include more work on modern Russian poetry and a long-gestating monograph Enlightenment in Russia: A History.

SUK-YOUNG KIM

is Professor and Director, Center for Performance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests cover a wide range of academic disciplines, such as East Asian performance and visual culture, gender and nationalism, Korean cultural studies, Russian literature and Slavic folklore. Her publications have appeared in English, German, Korean, Polish and Russian while her research has been acknowledged by the International Federation for Theatre Research's New Scholar's Prize (2004), the American Society for Theater Research Fellowship (2006), the Library of Congress Kluge Fellowship (2006-7) and the Academy of Korean Studies Research Grant (2008, 2010, 2015-2020), among others.