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Vanessa Evans

Vanessa Evans (she/her) is a settler scholar and Assistant Professor specializing in global Indigenous literatures and theory at Syracuse University on Onondaga Nation lands. Her current research aims to advance scholarly understandings of how comparative approaches to diverse and distinct Indigenous literatures can further illuminate how Indigenous Peoples and nations are enacting Indigenous resurgence. Evans’s research has appeared in venues such as Mapping World Anglophone Studies: English in a World of Strangers (2024), European Journal of American Studies (2025), and Studies in the Novel (2022). Her co-edited book, Cultures of Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century, was published in 2023, with Transcript Press. Evans is also a co-managing editor for the Journal of Transnational American Studies.

Alex Ferrone

Alex Ferrone completed his Ph.D. in the English Department at ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ in 2018, and he was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Theater Studies at Duke University from 2019 to 2023. He is currently an Assistant Professor of English in the Département de littératures et de langues du monde at l’Université de Montréal. He served as a lead editor of Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought and an editorial assistant at Modern Drama, and he is the current book reviews editor for Theatre Journal. His monograph, Stage Business and the Neoliberal Theatre of London, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2021, and he has published articles and reviews in Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, Modern Drama, Comparative Drama, and Journal of American Drama and Theatre.

Anna Veprinska

Anna Veprinska is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary and the Wayne O. McCready Emerging Fellow at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities. Among her publications are the monograph Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), which received Honourable Mention in the Memory Studies Association First Book Award, and the poetry collections Sew with Butterflies (Steel Bananas, 2014) and Bonememory (University of Calgary Press, 2025). Her third full-length collection of poems is forthcoming with Gordon Hill Press in 2026.