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Neal A. Lester is an expert in African American literary, cultural studies, racial bias and discrimination, especially as regards African Americans.

Lester is a Foundation Professor of English at ASU where he is founding director of the award-winning Project Humanities initiative. He鈥檚 also a popular public speaker, radio guest, op-ed contributor, newspaper columnist, blogger, and discussion facilitator. He is the author, co-author or editor of seven books and numerous articles in journal and magazines on topics such as children's literature, drama, folklore, the politics of hair, the "n-word," and racialized images in American cinema. The recipient of dozens of honors and awards for public scholarship and professional service, Lester conducts race and privilege training in the community and leads Project Humanities' Service Saturdays, an outreach to those experiencing homelessness, once per month in downtown Phoenix.

During his 17 years at Saint Mary's, Sindt provided exceptional academic and administrative leadership, serving as program director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing, the associate dean of the School of Liberal Arts, the dean of the Kalmanovitz School of Education, the vice provost for graduate and professional studies, and the vice provost for academic affairs. He has led initiatives in several areas, such as career and professional development, community engagement, educational effectiveness, faculty development, institutional research, international studies, sponsored research, and student success.

In 2011-2012, he was selected as an American Council of Education Fellow, the nation's premier training program for university administrators. He currently serves as chair-elect of the Board of Directors of the Council of Graduates and Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley.

Sindt earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree in English from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his master鈥檚 and doctoral degree in English from the University of California, Davis. Sindt has been honored with numerous awards and fellowships for his poetry, including the James D. Phelan Award and fellowships at the MacDowell Colony and the Blue Mountain Center. He is the author of two collections of poetry, The Bodies, and most recently, System and Population. In addition to poetry, his research interests include the literature of California and environmental literature.

Devoney Looser is an expert on 18th and 19th-century British literature, women鈥檚 writings, and Jane Austen.

She is the author or editor of seven books on literature by women and a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow and NEH Public Scholar. Her most recent book, "The Making of Jane Austen" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), was a Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book (Nonfiction) and received the Inside Higher Ed Reader鈥檚 Choice Award. 

She is a Foundation Professor of English and in conjunction with ASU's Global Sport Institute, she is working on a book-length project that tracks the history of roller derby, a sport she participates in occasionally as faculty advisor for the ASU Roller Derby club team. 

Looser鈥檚 essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Salon, and the TLS. She writes regularly on professional issues for The Chronicle of Higher Education. She's been a quoted authority about Jane Austen for CNN, The New York Times, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal.

Ayanna Thompson is an expert in Shakespearean studies specializing in Renaissance drama and race in performance. 

Unofficially known as the 鈥淥thello whisperer,鈥� Thompson is the director of the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies and creator of the RaceB4Race symposium, an ongoing conference series and professional network community for scholars of color.

Thompson is a Regents Professor of English and Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies. Thompson鈥檚 studies also include British literature, theatre, race and gender politics.

She is the author of several books, including "Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Sellars," "Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centred Approach," "Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America," and "Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage.鈥�

George Justice writes and consults on issues of higher education leadership and administration and has scholarly expertise in 18th-century British literature. 

With Carolyn Dever, Justice is a regular columnist for Inside Higher Ed exploring topics such as research expenditure calculations and models for healthy decision-making. Justice is also the author and editor of scholarship on the literary marketplace, authorship, and women's writing.

From 2013 to 2017, Justice served as ASU's Dean of Humanities and Associate Vice President for Arts and Humanities. Prior to that, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Marquette University, Louisiana State University, and the University of Missouri, where he also served as vice provost for advanced studies and dean of the Graduate School.

His recent book, "How to Be a Dean," was published in 2019 by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Erin James joined the English Department at University of Idaho in 2012. Her first book The Storyworld Accord: Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives (University of Nebraska Press, 2015) explores the intersections of ecocriticism, postcolonialism, and narrative theory and questions the role narratives stand to play in a response to today’s environmental crisis. It was shortlisted for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment’s (ASLE) Best Ecocriticism Book award and won the International Society for the Study of Narrative’s (ISSN) Perkins Prize for Best Book in Narrative Studies. Her second book, Narrative in the Anthropocene (Ohio State University Press, 2022), considers the links between storytelling and anthropogenic climate change; it was also short-listed for the ASLE Best Ecocriticism Book Award. In addition to these two books, Erin co-edited Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology (Ohio State University Press, 2022) with Eric Morel.
Erin has also published essays in Cambridge Critical Concepts: Nature and Literary Studies (Cambridge UP, 2023), SubStance, DIEGESIS, Poetics Today, The Language of Plants (U of Minnesota Press 2017), the Journal of Narrative Theory, the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature, The Bioregional Imagination (U of Georgia P 2012), and Teaching Ecocriticism and Green Cultural Studies (Palgrave 2012).
At University of Idaho, Erin teaches courses on world literatures in English, postcolonial literatures and theory, ecocriticism, and the environmental humanities, narratology and narrative theory, and critical theory. She is also the co-founder and co-director of the interdisciplinary , which uses interdisciplinary methods to study environmental issues in rural communities. With her Confluence Lab collaborators, Erin has received major grants from the National Science Foundation and the Mellon Foundation. She is the former mentoring program co-coordinator for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and a past president of the International Society for the Study of Narrative.

Allison Fagan is an associate professor in the English department where she teaches courses in Latinx Literature, the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border, African American literature, and contemporary U.S. literature. In the classroom and in her research, she focuses on questions of storytelling: whose stories are lifted and whose sidelined, and which stories—of the border, of the nation, of documented and undocumented subjects and citizens—resonate and which are revised. She is interested in the ways the archives and publishing histories of Latinx and African American writers can complicate the stories we tell ourselves about what counts as American literature. Her book, From the Edge: Chicana/o Border Literature and the Politics of Print (2016, Rutgers UP), shows how physical books carry within them the stories of their production, publication, and reception, documents of the storytelling itself.
She is the coordinator of the Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies minor and works with the Shenandoah Valley Scholars' Latino Initiative. 
She is from Chicago by way of Calumet City, Illinois, and she received a doctorate in literature from Loyola University Chicago in 2010 and a bachelor's degree in English from Saint Xavier University in Chicago in 2004. Before JMU, she worked at Indiana University Northwest. 

Professor Trocchia’s research and teaching interests are in philosophy of literature and poetry, philosophy of art, aesthetics, philosophy of language, metaphysics, existentialism, and ancient philosophy. His poems and prose have appeared in journals such as Asheville Poetry Review, Baltimore Review, Black Sun lit, The Boiler Journal, Caketrain, Camera Obscura, Claudius Speaks, Colorado Review, Fourteen Hills, Heavy Feather Review, Mid-American Review, Muse/A Journal, New Orleans Review, Open Letters Monthly, Tar River Poetry, Tarpaulin Sky, and The Worcester Review. He has been a finalist for the Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize, New Rivers Press Many Voices Competition, the C&R Winter Chapbook Contest, and for the Heavy Feather Review Chapbook Contest. His story “Witness” received grand prize for Prick of the Spindle’s Fiction Competition. The Fatherlands, a chapbook of short fictions and prose poems, was published by Monkey Puzzle Press in 2014.Unfounded, a book of poems, followed in 2015 from FutureCycle Press. Mortals in the Making will appear in early 2019 (Finishing Line Press).