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Jacques Khalip is Associate Professor of English at Brown University. He is the author of Last Things: Disastrous Form from Kant to Hujar (Fordham University Press, 2018) and Anonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession (Stanford University Press, 2009). He is also the co-editor of Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism (Fordham University Press, 2016) and Releasing the Image: From Literature to New Media (Stanford University Press, 2011). With Claire Colebrook and Lee Edelman, he is currently co-writing a book entitled Unlivable: Queer Theory beyond the Material (under contract, Columbia University Press).

David Collings is Professor of English at Bowdoin College. He is the author of Wordsworthian Errancies: The Poetics of Cultural Dismemberment (Johns Hopkins, 1994) and of Monstrous Society: Reciprocity, Discipline, and the Political Uncanny (Bucknell, 2009). He is co-editor of Queer Romanticisms (Romanticism on the Net 36-37) and author of essays on Godwin, Malthus, Bentham, Thelwall, Coleridge, Mary Shelley, and contemporary Romantic criticism.