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Kimberly Bain is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia–Vancouver. Her most pressing and urgent concerns have consolidated around questions of the history, theory, and philosophy of the African diaspora. She is currently at work on two scholarly monographs. The first, entitled On Black Breath, traces a genealogy of breathing and Blackness in the United States. Her second, Dirt: Soil and Other Dark Matter, turns to dirt for understanding how Blackness has shaped global considerations of the Anthropocene and refused the extractive relations of racial capitalism.

Jeremy Colangelo studies disability, epistemology, and twentieth-century literature. He is the author of Diaphanous Bodies: Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature (University of Michigan Press, 2021) and the editor of Joyce Writing Disability (University of Florida Press, 2022) and the cluster The Body Politic in Pain (Modernism/modernity, 2023). He is also a creative writer and published a collection of stories, Beneath the Statue, in 2020.

Anna Magdalena Elsner is Associate Professor of French Studies and Medical Humanities at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Her area of expertise is death, dying, and mourning in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, philosophy, and film. She is the author of Mourning and Creativity in Proust (Palgrave, 2017) and co-editor of The Proustian Mind (Routledge, 2022) and Literature and Medicine (Cambridge University Press, 2024). She is principal investigator of a European Research Council project engaging with the aesthetics, laws, and ethics of assisted dying (assistedlab.ch).

Mia Florin-Sefton is a Lecturer at Columbia University with research interests in modernist and contemporary British and American literature, social reproduction theory, the history of eugenics, and information science. Her academic writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Diacritics, Modernism/modernity, Feminist Modernist Studies Print Plus, and Post45, among others. For AY 2023–24 she is also a Public Humanities Fellow with the Humanities Center Initiative, New York.

Nathan Gray is a physician specializing in Internal Medicine and Palliative Care, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He uses comics to promote empathy, educate others, and explore the ironies of the medical world. His work has been published in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, British Medical Journal, American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Narrative Magazine. Nathan's Los Angeles Times graphic editorials won first- and fourth-place prizes from the California News Publishers' Association for 2020 editorial cartooning.

Franziska Gygax, professor emerita of American literature at the University of Basel, Switzerland, is the author of Serious Daring from Within: Female Narrative Strategies in Eudora Welty's Novels (Greenwood, 1990) and Gender and Genre in Gertrude Stein (Greenwood, 1998). She has also published in the fields of autobiography and literature and medicine, including "Feeling (and Falling) Ill: Finding a Language of Illness," in Feeling Dis-ease in Modern History: Experiencing Medicine and Illness, edited by Rob Boddice and Bettina Hitzer (Bloomsbury, 2022). She was co-director of the interdisciplinary research project "Life (Beyond) Writing: Illness Narratives," funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Endia Hayes is a Thurgood Marshall postdoctoral fellow in the Department of African and African American Studies at Dartmouth College. Her research explores Afro-Texan femme sensory knowledge production as it emerges from haunting. By focusing on the senses, she attends to cultural and Black Feminist studies' vast interest in sound, visual, literary, and aesthetic forms of everyday knowing. Her work has appeared in The Black Scholar, Southern Cultures, and Gastronomica, as well as several anthologies including Black Feminist Sociology and Black Women and Da' Rona.

Katja Herges is a cultural studies scholar and a physician. She is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research into Health and Illness at the University of Wrocław, Poland. In addition to her medical degree, she earned a PhD in German and Feminist Theory and Research at the University of California, Davis. She has held various positions in neuroimmunological science, clinical psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine, and medical ethics. Based on her interdisciplinary background, her research and teaching is situated at the intersection of German cultural...