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).

List of Figures
Foreword
A. Robert Lee, Emeritus, Nihon University, Tokyo
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Erik Mortenson, Lake Michigan College, USA and Tomasz Sawczuk, University of Bialystok, Poland

Part I. Rethinking the Writing1. Reading a Copy of On the Road
Matt Theado, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Japan
2. Choruses for Kerouac
Aldon Nielsen, Penn State University, USA
3. Jack Kerouac's Paintings: Color, Texture, Movement
Frida Forsgren, University of Agder, Norway
4. A House of Mirrors at Coney Island: Kerouac's Obscure Experiments in Screenwriting
Brett Sigurdson, Independent Scholar, USA
5. Lonesome Traveler, Buddhism, and the Fictions of Kerouac's Non-Fiction
Steven Belletto, Lafayette College, USA
6. "Radical Vulnerability" in Kerouac's Big Sur, Satori in Paris, and Vanity of Duluoz
Deborah R. Geis, DePauw University, USA

Part II. Kerouac and the Social
7. Anti-homosexual Paranoia, Queer Love, and Cold War Poetics in Jack Kerouac's Visions of Cody
Pierre-Antoine Pellerin, University of Lyon 3 - Jean Moulin, France
8. Teaching Kerouac in the Time of Trump: An Orwellian Approach to The Dharma Bums
John Whalen-Bridge, National University of Singapore
9. Recovering Jack Kerouac's Blackface Novel Pic
Kurt Hemmer, Harper College, USA
10. Jack Kerouac and the Language of Populism
Nancy M. Grace, The College of Wooster, USA
11. Kerouac's Fellahin Poetics: Reimagining Global Culture against Nation and Empire
Hassan Melehy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Part III. Kerouac's Influence and Legacy
12. From Beat Generation to Hacker Generation: The Experimental Road Narratives On the Road and 1 the Road
Peggy Pacini, CY Paris Cergy Université / UMR 922 - Héritages, France
13. Kerouac's Enduring Influence on Anglo-American Popular Music Composers and Performers
Simon Warner, University of Leeds, UK
14. Jack Kerouac: American Avatar
Ronna C. Johnson, Tufts University, USA
15. The Futures of Kerouac's Past: Public Humanities and the Kerouac Archive at 100
Michael Millner, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA
16. Kerouac in Translation: A Conversation with Farid Ghadami, Minami Aoyama, and Maciej Swierkocki
Erik Mortenson, Lake Michigan College, USA and Tomasz Sawczuk, University of Bialystok, Poland
Afterword
Tim Hunt, Emeritus, Illinois State University, USA

Notes on Contributors
Index