Journal of Modern Literature

WELCOME NEW JML CO-EDITOR MICHAEL LEONG

Michael Leong has been promoted from advisory editor to co-editor of the Journal of Modern Literature. Dr. Leong is Robert P. Hubbard Assistant Professor of Poetry at Kenyon College. He is the author of several books of poetry—most recently Words on Edge (2018)—and the monograph Contested Records: The Turn to Documents in Contemporary North American Poetry (U of Iowa P, 2020). His essays on poetry and poetics have appeared or are forthcoming in a wide range of journals including A Contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America; ARCADE: Literature, the Humanities, & the World; Contemporary Literature; Denver Quarterly; The Hopkins Review; Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures; Interim; Jacket2; Journal of Modern Literature; Modern Language Studies; Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics; and Verge: Studies in Global Asias. He has previously served on the editorial board of American Literature. He lives in Central Ohio.

Dr. Leong joins the team of co-editors that includes Robert Caserio, Penn State University; Caren Irr, Brandeis University; Janet Lyon, Penn State University; Daniel T. O'Hara, Temple University; Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania; Ramón E. Soto-Crespo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Robert T. Tally, Jr., Texas State University; and Jennifer Yusin, Drexel University. [End Page 1]