Preston Waltrip received his PhD in English from the University of California, Riverside. His areas of expertise are contemporary American multi-ethnic literature, Latinx studies, and the historical novel. His current project, Presentist Historical Fictions: Race, Biopolitics, and Anachronism in the Contemporary American Novel, examines how contemporary historical novelists use anachronism and non-realist techniques to reimagine and encounter past individuals whose lives have been elided by dominant histories.
