​​Angela Naimou (anaimou@clemson.edu) is Associate Professor of English at Clemson University and the lead editor of Humanity journal. Her book, Salvage Work: U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood (Fordham 2015), asks how contemporary literature reconceives the legal slave personality in relation to other purportedly defunct or exceptional categories of legal personhood in the present. Salvage Work won the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present book prize and received honorable mention for the William Sanders Scarborough Award by the Modern Language Association. She is editor of Diaspora and Literary Studies (Cambridge 2023) and at work on two projects: a monograph about contemporary literature and the history of international border regimes since the mandate era, and a short co-authored book project on human rights. At Clemson, she leads a university-wide initiative as part of the Every Campus a Refuge network to bolster local refugee resettlement and migration rights.