Dr Manuel Herrero-Puertas is Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University, Taiwan, where he teaches courses on early and nineteenth-century American literature and disability studies. He writes on the intersection of literature, discourses of disability, and political fantasy. His work has appeared in American Quarterly, ATLANTIS, Concentric, The Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, and Poe Studies: History, Theory, and Interpretation. He is currently working on two projects. The first one argues for a non-psychoanalytic engagement with the transatlantic gothic, making a case instead for the genre’s accessible materiality and latent crip politics. The second project undertakes a cognitive study of the U.S. frontier in its historical, historiographical, and fictional manifestations as a locus of compulsory distraction and undisciplined attention.