Contributors
- Contributors
Heather D. S. Anderson is a candidate for an MFA in the department of art and design at the University of Idaho. She also teaches within the College of Art and Architecture at the university. A native of Portland, Oregon, she received her BA in architecture from Portland State University Honors College and her BFA at the University of Nevada, Reno with a minor in Women's Studies. Heather works primarily in digital photography, printing her work on both conventional papers and alternative supports such as textiles.
Shelley Armitage is professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso and former director of Women Studies. Her scholarly books and articles include work on photographic criticism, popular culture, art, women's literature, and various critical studies. She was Peggy Church's literary editor. She is at work on a memoir of the llano estacado.
Constance Cortez received her BA and MA in art history from the University of Texas at Austin and completed her PhD in art history at UCLA. She is an assistant professor of art history in the School of Art at Texas Tech University where she teaches and publishes in two fields: contemporary Chicano/a art and colonial art of Mexico. Two recent articles include the forthcoming "Now You See Her, Now You Don't: Memory and the Politics of Identity Construction in Representations of Malinche," in Invasion and Transformation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Images of the Conquest of Mexico, ed. Margaret Jackson Ferrer and Rebecca Brienen (Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2006) and "The New Aztlán: Nepantla (and Other Sites of Transmogrification)," in The Road to Aztlán, ed. Virginia Fields (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001).
Shirin Edwin is assistant professor of French at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. She has published articles on African Islam in Research in African Literatures and the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. A [End Page 157] forthcoming article will appear in a volume on teaching the African novel, to be published by the Modern Languages Association (MLA). Edwin is currently working on a book-length manuscript on women and Islam in West African literatures.
Shreepad Joglekar received his BFA in applied art from the Sir J J Institute of Applied Art in Mumbai, India, and his MFA from Texas Tech University. His work focuses on interdisciplinary practice in photography, drawing, and site-specific collaborative interests. He is interested in multiculturalism, the idea of the self and the sense of belonging in today's cultural dynamics, and photography as a medium of expression.
Monique Jonaitis is a member of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians of Michigan (Anishinaabe) and is of Lithuanian descent. She received her BA in Spanish from the University of Michigan, her MA in Latin American Studies from the University of New Mexico, and is currently in the PhD program in Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis. Areas of focus are Native mixed-blood women writers, Native American literary theory, indigenous pedagogy, and creative/writing instruction. She presented and published her first nonfiction narrative, "Barefoot," during the 2006 Hawai'i International Conference on Arts and Humanities in Honolulu.
Elizabeth G. Nichols is associate professor of Spanish at Drury University in Missouri. She received a PhD in Spanish literature and culture from the University of Kansas in 1997. She has published and presented many articles on Venezuelan poetry in the United States and Venezuela, and her book Rediscovering the Language of the Tribe in Modern Venezuelan Poetry was published in 2000. Nichols serves as an executive board member of the Latin American Studies Association's Section on Venezuelan Studies.
Brian Norman is assistant professor of English at Idaho State University where he specializes in twentieth-century American literature, with an emphasis on African American and multiethnic U.S. literatures. His current research examines literary figures who also serve as advocates for American social movements, including especially Civil Rights and women's liberation. He is completing a book project on the American protest essay and is a guest editor of a special issue of African American Review on "Representing Segregation" (slated for publication in early 2008). Some...
