M. Giulia Fabi is an Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Ferrara, Italy. She is a scholar of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African American literature, known for her book Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel.  She has edited the Penguin Classics edition William Wells Brown’s Clotel, a series of Italian translations of African American novels, and the bilingual edition of Frederick Douglass’s 1845 Narrative.

Daylanne English is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Macalester College. Her third book, “Soul Sounds”: The Afterlife in African American Literature and Music, is forthcoming fall 2026 from Fordham University Press. She is also at work on a born-digital project on Afrofuturism. Her second book, Each Hour Redeem: Time and Justice in African American Literature, was published in March 2013 by the University of Minnesota Press.

My primary interest is in feminist theory and, more generally, issues of gender and sexuality whether in a theoretical context or in primary texts from Mansfield Park to Pulp Fiction. Cool Men and the Second Sex (2003) considers the gender politics of Spike Lee, Quentin Tarantino, Andrew Ross, and Edward Said. "Pussy Panic versus Liking Animals" (Critical Inquiry, 2012) is a feminist foray into animal studies.