Gregory Phipps is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Iceland and the author of three academic books: Dialectics of the Big Bang and the Absolute Existence of the Multiverse (University of Alberta Press, 2024), Narratives of African American Women’s Literary Pragmatism and Creative Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and Henry James and the Philosophy of Literary Pragmatism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). He has also published two novels: Year of the Puffin (Atmosphere Press, 2023) and Calamity (Atmosphere Press, 2026). He studied and worked previously at McGill University as a PhD Candidate and Lecturer and at the University of Oxford as a Postdoctoral Fellow. He has interests in American literature, pragmatism, the Harlem Renaissance, intersectionality, democracy, and the philosophy of science.