Welcome new JML co-editors!

Longtime JML co-editor Paula Marantz Cohen stepped down from her position this winter due to her heavy responsibilities as dean of the Pennoni Honors College at Drexel University. We have published a farewell tribute in JML 45.3.

Three former JML advisory editors have been promoted to co-editor:

Caren Irr is professor of English at Brandeis University. She is the author of three monographs--most recently Toward the Geopolitical Novel: American Fiction in the 21st Century (Columbia 2013). She has also edited five collections. Her latest books,  Life in Plastic: Artistic Responses to Petromodernity and Adorno's Minima Moralia in the 21st Century: Fascism, Work and Ecology, both appeared in late 2021.  

Ramón E. Soto-Crespo is professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  He served as director of the Latino Studies Program at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) from 2002 to 2012. He is the author of Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico (2009), which won honorable mention at the 2009 Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latino and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies, and most recently of The White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction (2020). His essays have appeared in American Literary History, Atlantic Studies, Modern Language Notes, Modern Fiction Studies, Contemporary Literature, and Textual Practice. He has been the recipient of fellowships and grants from the Ford Foundation, the University of Wisconsin Institute on Race and Ethnicity, the Schomburg Foundation, Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Research Fellowship, the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, the UB Humanities Institute, and the UIUC Humanities Research Institute.  His most recent book manuscript, tentatively titled Neobugarron: Latina/o American Sexual Practice in the Age of Neoliberalism, is forthcoming.

Robert T. Tally Jr. is professor of English at Texas State University. His recent books include For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists (2022); Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination (2019); Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectic Criticism (2014); Poe and the Subversion of American Literature (2014); Spatiality (2013); Utopia in the Age of Globalization (2013); and, as editor, Spatial Literary Studies (2020), Teaching Space, Place, and Literature (2018); and The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space (2017). Tally is also the general editor of “Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies,” a Palgrave Macmillan book series.

These new editors join Robert Caserio, Penn State University; Janet Lyon, Penn State University; Daniel T. O'Hara, Temple University; Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania; and Jennifer Yusin, Drexel University.