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Notes on Contributors
Tim Armstrong is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Modernism, Technology, and the Body (1998), Haunted Hardy: Poetry, History, Memory (2000), Modernism: A Cultural History (2005), and The Logic of Slavery: Debt, Technology, and Pain in American Literature (2012). His Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems (Longman Annotated Texts) was reissued in 2009.
Chris Baldick is Professor of English at Goldsmiths, University of London. His publications include Literature of the 1920s (2012), Decadence: An Annotated Anthology (coedited with Jane Desmarais, 2012), The Modern Movement (Oxford English Literary History, Volume 10) (2004), and The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (2008).
Rebecca Beasley is University Lecturer in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature in the Faculty of English at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of The Queen's College. She is the author of Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism (2007), and Theorists of Modernist Poetry: Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and T. E. Hulme (2007). She is currently writing a book on the impact of Russian culture on British modernism.
Melissa Bradshaw teaches in the English Department at Loyola University Chicago. She is the author of Amy Lowell, Diva Poet, which won the 2011 MLA Book Prize for Independent Scholars and has published articles on divas in American culture and on Greenwich Village bohemianism. She is the coeditor of Selected Poems of Amy Lowell (2002) and Amy Lowell, American Modern (2004), a volume of critical essays.
Sascha Bru (Leuven University) is the author of numerous essays on modernist and avant-garde writers. His most recent book is entitled Democracy, Law and the Modernist Avant-Gardes: Writing in the State of Exception (2009). He is the coeditor of various volumes, including The Oxford Cultural and Critical History of Modernist Magazines, vol. 3, and Regarding the Popular: Modernism, the Avant-Garde, and High and Low Culture
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