## NOTE ON CONTRIBUTORS

Torsten Andreasen is a postdoc in the research project 'Finance Fiction -Financialization and Culture in the Early 21st Century' at  the  Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. Recent publications include 'Finance Fiction' in The Routledge Companion to Critical Finance Studies (along with Mikkel Krause Frantzen and Frederik Tygstrup), 'Subjektivitet' in  Lund  &  Schmidt  (eds.): Medieæstetik: En introduktion ,  and 'Destituting the Interface: Beyond Affordance and Determination' in Media Theory .

Solveig Daugaard's research field is modernist and contemporary American poetry and contemporary Scandinavian literature and media theory. Her criticism has appeared in Jacket2 and  in  a number of journals and papers in Denmark, Sweden and abroad, and her dissertation Collaborating with Gertrude Stein is  under revision and forthcoming from the University of Alabama Press (2021). She is currently a teacher and a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the School of Arts and Communications, Malmö University,  and  the  Department  of  Arts  and  Cultural  Studies, University of Copenhagen. Her PhD in Literature, Media History and Information Cultures is from Linköping University.

Mikkel Krause Frantzen is a postdoc at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, where he is part of the research project 'Finance Fiction -Financialization and Culture in the Early 21st Century.' The author of Going Nowhere, Slow (Zero  Books,  2019),  his  work  has  appeared  in Critique: Studies  in  Contemporary  Fiction , Journal  of  Austrian  Studies , Studies in American Fiction , boundary2 , SubStance , Third Text , Theory, Culture, and Societ y, and Los Angeles Review of Books .

Kristina Hermansson is senior lecturer in comparative literature at the University of Gothenburg, specializing in children's and youth fiction. Hermansson's research interests are in the area of critical theory, including ideology, class, gender, and spatiality. She has published studies of novels, mum lit, and numerous articles on picture books, with a strong emphasis on Nordic literature.

Nicholas  Huber  is  a  postdoc  in  the  Department  of  Arts  and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen. His writing on money, work, class, and contemporary fiction can be found at Theory & Event , NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction , and Open Library of the Humanities .

Emma Sofie Brogaard Jespersen is an MA student in Comparative Literature  at  the  Department  of  Arts  and  Cultural  Studies  at University  of  Copenhagen.  She  is  a  student  assistant  at  the research projects 'Finance Fiction -Financialization and Culture in the Early 21st Century' and 'Art as Forum' at UCPH. She works, moreover, as an editorial assistant at the Danish publishing house Informations Forlag .

Vera  Knútsdóttir  is  a  PhD  student  in  the  department  of Comparative  Literature  at  the  University  of  Iceland.  She  is working on the final touches of her doctoral thesis, written under the supervision of prof. Gunnthórunn Gudmundsdóttir, and titled Spectral Memories of Icelandic Culture: Memory, Identity and the Haunted Imagination in Contemporary Literature and Art. Vera is currently based in Copenhagen.

Kristina Malmio, PhD, Docent and University Lecturer in Nordic literature at the University of Helsinki, has written extensively on Swedish literature in Finland in the twentieth and early twentyfirst  century.  Her  research  areas  include  literary  spatiality, theories  on  postmodernism  and  beyond,  and  the  relation between literature and society. Among her recent publications are the co-edited Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality (2019)  and  the  article  ''Welche  Sprachen  sprechen  Cyborgs?' Mehrsprachigkeit  und  Technologie  in  der  skandinavischen Gegenwartsliteratur,' written together with Sophie Wennerscheid and published in Multilingualität und Mehr-Sprachligkeit in der Gegenwartsliteratur .

Mary Poovey is professor emerita at New York University. She is a scholar of nineteenth century British literature and culture, feminist theory, and economic history. Her latest books are The Financial System in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2003), Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth and NineteenthCentury Britain (2008), and along with Kevin R. Brine: Finance in America: An Unfinished Story (2017).

Dominique  Routhier  is  a  Post-Doctoral  Researcher  at  the Department  for  the  Study  of  Culture,  University  of  Southern Denmark. PhD (2020) with a dissertation entitled The Work of Art in the Age of Automation: The Situationist Movement, 19561968 , now being reworked into a book. Publications in various Scandinavian  and  international  journals  such  as Monsieur Antipyrine , Agora , K&K and Rethinking  Marxism .  Currently affiliated  with  the  research  project  'Drone  Imaginaries  and Communities'  (Independent  Research  Fund  Denmark,  20202024).

Frederik Tygstrup is Academic Director of Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies and professor of comparative literature, University  of  Copenhagen.  Presently,  he  is  the  principal  investigator of two research projects: 'Finance Fiction-Financialization and Culture in the Early 21st Century' (Danish Research Council 20182021) and 'Art as Forum. The New Carlsberg Research Center' at the University of Copenhagen (2020-2024). His latest publications include 'Topologies of Debt' in Differences Vol.  3  (Duke  University Press, 2020), 'De te fabula narratur!' in Charles Armstrong et al.  (eds.): Terrorizing Images in the Literature of Trauma (Brill, 2020), and 'Figura' in Kristin Veel et al. (eds.): Uncertain Archives. Critical Terms for Big Data (MIT Press, 2021).

Joseph  Vogl  is  Professor  for  Literature  and  Cultural  Theory (Kulturwissenschaft)  at  the  Humboldt-Universität  Berlin  and permanent  Visiting  Professor  at  the  Department  of  German at  Princeton University. His latest books are Das Gespenst des Kapitals (2010) and Der Souveränitätseffekt (2015).