John Burns is Associate Professor of Spanish at Bard College. His first monograph, Contemporary Hispanic Poets: Cultural Production in the Global, Digital Age, took a cultural studies approach to contemporary poetry.

Toshiaki Komura is Professor of English at Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo. His first monograph, Lost Loss in American Elegiac Poetry: Tracking Inaccessible Grief from Stevens to Post 9/11, examined a difficult to articulate sense of loss and dispossession in modern and contemporary U.S. elegiac poetry through neo-formalist textual analysis, psychoanalytic approaches, and genre history.