Editorial Introduction

Jennifer Spitzer is associate professor of literatures in English at Ithaca College. She is author of Secret Sharers: The Intimate Rivalries of Modernism and Psychoanalysis (2023). Her essays have appeared in Avidly, the Journal of Modern Literature, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Modernism/modernity, the New York Times, Studies in the Novel, and other venues.

Shirley Lau Wong is assistant professor in the English department at the US Naval Academy. She is author of Poetics of the Local: Globalization, Place, and Contemporary Irish Poetry (2023). Her other work has appeared or will appear in the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, The Global South, Interventions, and the edited collection Race in Irish Literature and Culture.