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Modern American Literature Studies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Calum X. Cunningham
University of Tasmania
2
Justin Louis Mann
Northwestern University
3
Guanning Wang
Shandong Normal University
4
Magda Majewska
Goethe University Frankfurt
5
Irakli Tskhvediani
Unknown
6
Michaela Bronstein
Johns Hopkins University
7
Marwan Kadhim Mohammed
University of Anbar
8
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
University of Basel
9
Reuben Martens
University of Waterloo
10
Logan Spence
Miami University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Increasing frequency and intensity of the most extreme wildfires on Earth
Nature Ecology & Evolution|2024
442 cit.
2
Pyrogeography in flux: Reorganization of Australian fire regimes in a hotter world
Global Change Biology|2024
43 cit.
3
Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires
Science|2025
24 cit.
4
Wildfires will intensify in the wildland-urban interface under near-term warming
Communications Earth & Environment|2025
12 cit.
5
Fear of the human ‘super predator’ in native marsupials and introduced deer in Australia
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences|2024
8 cit.
6
Wildfires: Burning our way to a ‘hot house Earth’?
Current Biology|2025
5 cit.
7
Navigating the risks and rewards of scavenging in multipredator, human‐impacted landscapes
Ecology|2025
2 cit.
8
Concretion.
Basel Media Culture and Cultural Techniques Working Papers|2025
1 cit.
9
Human existence in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis
Social Sciences & Humanities Open|2025
1 cit.
10
Artificial intelligence as the modern platonic cave
Communication Teacher|2025
1 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Markus Wierschem
St. Olaf College
2
Eric Morel
University of Washington
3
Ru-Dong Wang
Tsinghua University
4
Rick Elmore
DePaul University
5
Hsuan L. Hsu
University of California, Davis
6
Xavier Aldana Reyes
Manchester Metropolitan University
7
Melanie Benson Taylor
University of Cambridge
8
Jonathan Elmore
Brooklyn Hospital Center
9
Jamila Lyiscott
Columbia University
10
LaSheria Nance-Bush
Unknown

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Simulation of crowd dynamics in pedestrian evacuation concerning panic contagion: A cellular automaton approach
Chinese Physics B|2022
28 cit.
2
Redistributions of the Sensible: An Introduction to “Senses with/out Subjects”
American Literature|2023
4 cit.
3
Race, Urban Heat, and the Aesthetics of Thermoception
American Literary History|2023
3 cit.
4
Case Studies of Effective Learning Climates for Civic Reasoning and Discussion
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science|2023
3 cit.
5
When <i>We</i> See Us: An Endarkened Autoethnographic Approach to Excavating the Extraordinary Literacies of Black Women
Educational Studies|2024
3 cit.
6
Contemporary Gothic Horror Cinema: The Imagined Pasts and Traumatic Ghosts of <i>Crimson Peak</i> (2015) and <i>The Woman in Black</i> (2012)
LIT Literature Interpretation Theory|2022
2 cit.
7
Terrestrial Horror or the Marriage between Horror Fiction and Cli-Fi: What the Language of Horror can Teach us about Climate Change
International Journal of Language and Literary Studies|2022
2 cit.
8
Wading through coloniality: critical processes for re/thinking body, place, space, speech, and tongue
Equity & Excellence in Education|2022
2 cit.
9
Digital Gothic: An Interview with Xavier Aldana Reyes
REDEN. Revista española de estudios norteamericanos/Revista española de estudios norteamericanos|2022
1 cit.
10
The Materials of Art and the Legacies of Colonization: A Conversation with Beatrice Glow and Sandy Rodriguez
Journal of Transnational American Studies|2022
1 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
David Punter
University of Bristol
2
Robert Griffith
Northrop Grumman (United States)
3
Scott Slovic
University of Idaho
4
Douglas Robinson
Hong Kong Baptist University
5
Congling Shi
China Academy of Safety Sciences and Technology
6
Giancarlo Cesana
University of Milano-Bicocca
7
Jonathan Elmer
University of Pittsburgh
8
Eugene McLaughlin
City, University of London
9
Joni Adamson
Arizona State University
10
William McCarthy
Zayed University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Association of early withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy for perceived neurological prognosis with mortality after cardiac arrest
Resuscitation|2016
428 cit.
2
The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day
Studies in Romanticism|1982
339 cit.
3
The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day
The Modern Language Review|1983
206 cit.
4
Clinically distinct electroencephalographic phenotypes of early myoclonus after cardiac arrest
Annals of Neurology|2016
198 cit.
5
The association between hyperoxia and patient outcomes after cardiac arrest: analysis of a high-resolution database
Intensive Care Medicine|2014
197 cit.
6
Modeling and safety strategy of passenger evacuation in a metro station in China
Safety Science|2010
186 cit.
7
Readability Assessment of Online Patient Education Material on Congestive Heart Failure
Advances in Preventive Medicine|2017
176 cit.
8
We Predict a Riot?: Public Order Policing, New Media Environments and the Rise of the Citizen Journalist
The British Journal of Criminology|2010
163 cit.
9
The Permanent Revolution:
Criminal Justice|2001
154 cit.
10
The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader
The American Historical Review|1983
143 cit.

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