Joseph Conte is Professor of English at the University at Buffalo. He is the author of Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel (Routledge, 2020), Design & Debris: A Chaotics of Postmodern American Fiction (University of Alabama Press, 2002), which received the Agee Prize in American Literary Studies, and Unending Design: The Forms of Postmodern Poetry (Cornell University Press, 1991; reissued as an eBook in 2016). He has been a Senior Fellow at the New York Institute of Cognitive and Cultural Studies in St. Petersburg, Russia, Visiting Professor of English at Capital Normal University in Beijing, China, and a University at Buffalo Humanities Research Fellow. Book chapters and articles on a wide range of contemporary literature and criticism have appeared in The Edinburgh Companion to Don DeLillo and the Arts, Don DeLillo in Context, The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, Trump Fiction: Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film, and Television, American Literature in Transition: 1990-2000, Modern Fiction Studies, The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo, and The Review of Contemporary Fiction, among others. His work in progress is “The New Migrants: Transversal Cosmopolitanism in the Global Novel.”