(Be)longing; nostalgia and the construction of ideology

Aliyah Alsaber (she/her) is an Assistant Professor at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud University. Her research focuses on the role of nostalgia in the time of mass migration through diasporic and cultural productions, contemporary Arabic literature, minorities in the Arab world, and Decolonial and Postcolonial Studies.

I am Joshua Derick Noveras, a teacher from the Philippines. I am a graduate student of Ateneo de Manila University from the Department of History. I give lectures on humanities and social science subjects at San Beda University Integrated Basic Education Department. You can reach me in this email, [email protected].

Anuparna Mukherjee is assistant professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at IISER Bhopal, India. She holds a PhD degree from the Australian National University. Her research engages with nostalgia, modernity, spectrality, affect and urban space. Her article, “After the Empire: Narratives of Haunting in the Postcolonial Spectropolis” was published in South Asian Review. Her publications include “Viral Nostalgia” in EPW and “Knots of Time: Reading Nostalgia in Bengali Literature from 13th to the 19th Century” in Retelling Time by Routledge.

Brittany Buscio is a writer and researcher based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Her work focuses on the reception and influence of Dante Alighieri in geographical areas and temporal periods outside of his own. She completed her MA Thesis on the presence of Dante in nineteenth-century American literature at McGill University in 2024, and is currently pursuing a career in teaching English language and literature.

Catherine Enwright recently earned her PhD in English literature from Boston College, writing on the presence of Gothic tropes in World War I literature. Her research interests lie in the literature of modern warfare, the uses of literature and public rhetoric to justify conflict, and the intersection of modernism with the Gothic. Her most recent published article in Modernist Cultures is titled “Fact vs. Truth: Empire and Culture in David Jones’ The Grail Mass.” and traces David Jones’ political vision and values in his recently posthumously published long poem “The Grail Mass”.

Gwendoline is a DPhil student at the University of Oxford, where she takes as her focus representations of German colonialism in literary, material and visual culture from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. She is particularly interested in how fantasies of coloniality during this period were used to construct and respond to notions of German nationality and race. More broadly, she enjoys exploring the fields of cognition, posthumanism, social epistemology, and somatics.

Hannah Link is a writer, editor, and researcher focused on 20th and 21st century historiographies of the French Revolution. In 2024, she completed her MA thesis at McGill University on history plays by women. Her critical work has appeared in ASAP/J and she received the Mona Elaine Adilman Prize in Poetry for her creative work, which also appears in The Malahat Review. Hannah is based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal.

Xiaoge Wang is a PhD student at Durham University working on the literary culture of the twentieth- and twenty-first periods, especially post-war English fiction. Her thesis focuses on how intellect, negative affects, and literary style interact in Julian Barnes’s novels. She is also interested in the genre of travel literature, twentieth-century English intellectual history, and gender studies.

Natasha Kinne is a Master's student of English literature at Mcgill University. Her interests include nineteenth-century American Literature, reproductive health and rights, and women's literature.

Caroline D. Eckhardt is Smeal Professor in Comparative Literature at Penn State (University Park, PA). She has focused on medieval Arthurian traditions, especially those related to Merlin as prophet and to medieval retellings of ancient legends.