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Alyson Cole is a professor of political science, women’s and gender studies, and American studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of The Cult of True Victimhood: From the War on Welfare to the War on Terror, and articles in journals such as Signs, Critical Horizons, and WSQ. Cole is co-editor of philoSOPHIA: A Journal of transContinental Feminism, and a principal scholar in the "Vulnerable & Dynamic Forms of Life" International Network of Research, an interdisciplinary research collective supported by funding from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris.

George Shulman is a professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University. He has authored two books: Radicalism and Reverence: Gerrard Winstanley and the English Revolution, and American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture, which won the 2010 David Eastman Prize for best book in political theory. He co-edited Radical Futures Past: Untimely Political Theory, and has published essays in journals such as Raritan, Political Theory, Contemporary Political Thought, and New Literary History. His current book project is entitled: Living Postmortem: Impasse and Genre in American Politics and Literature.