Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781399510622)

Sheri-Marie Harrison is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri, where she researches and teaches Contemporary literature and mass culture of the African Diaspora and directs the Individualized Degrees program. She is the author of Negotiating Sovereignty in Postcolonial Jamaican Literature (2014). Among her ongoing projects is an author study of Marlon James, a monograph on genre in Contemporary Black fiction. She is also a co-editor for the Routledge Companion to the Novel (forthcoming 2024).

Arin Keeble is a Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland. His most recent book is Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context (2019) and his essays can be found in Journal of American Studies, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Parallax, Post45 Contemporaries, Comparative American Studies, European Journal of American Culture, Canadian Review of American Studies, the Times Literary Supplement and in collections including The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction, The City in American Literature and Culture and The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature.

Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo is a trade union organiser based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She received her PhD from Edinburgh University in 2021. Her dissertation focused on contemporary American women's autobiographies and posthumanism