Rethinking Kerouac: Afterlives, Continuities, Reappraisals

Erik Mortenson is a Faculty Member in English at Lake Michigan College in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Mortenson has published numerous journal articles and book chapters, as well as several books, including Capturing the Beat Moment: Cultural Politics and the Poetics of Presence (2011), which won a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award; Ambiguous Borderlands: Shadow Imagery in Cold War American Culture (2016); and Translating the Counterculture: The Reception of the Beats in Turkey (2018). He has also published The Beats and the Academy: A Renegotiation (2023), co-edited with Tony Trigilio, along with the memoir Kick Out the Bottom (2023), co-written with Christopher Kramer. Mortenson is also a translator whose work has appeared in journals such as Asymptote, Talisman, and Two Lines.

Tomasz Sawczuk is Assistant Professor at University of Bialystok, Poland. In 2022 he was a Visiting Research Scholar at Fordham University, USA. Among his publications on Beat writers, film and popular culture are On the Road to Lost Fathers: Jack Kerouac in a Lacanian Perspective (2019) and a chapter contribution to The Routledge Handbook of International Beat Literature (2018). He also co-edited Visuality and Vision in American Literature (2014).