About the Contributors
M. Cristina Alcalde is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Southwestern University. Her areas of research include Peru and Latinas in the U.S. as well as gender violence, race, and class.
Beauty Bragg is an assistant professor who teaches Literature, Women's Studies, and Africana Studies at Georgia College & State University. Her research focuses on representations of female sexuality in literature and popular culture.
Laura Gillman is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Virginia Tech. Her intellectual and political interests include the racial and trans-national dimensions of feminist theory and politics; the intersections of race, class, gender, and post-colonial studies within the African diaspora and transational Latina contexts; and anti-racist feminist pedagogy within the U.S.academy.
Elizabeth Jacobs works in the Department of Theatre, Film, and Television Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK. She publishes on Chicana and other feminist writing, has held other lecturing posts in the UK, and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University from 2003–2005.
L. "Pancho" McFarland is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Chicago State University. His writings on Chicana/o culture have appeared in Aztlán, Callaloo, Race, Gender and Class, and Bad Subjects. His book, Chicano Rap: Gender and Violence in the Postindustrial Barrio is forthcoming from the University of Texas Press.
Mihaela Moscaliuc's poems, translations, reviews, and articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Great River Review, Near East Review, TriQuarterly Review, Marlboro Review, Fugue, Arts & Letters, Mississippi Review, Connecticut Review, Mid-American Review, Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Interculturality and Translation, and History of Literary Cultures in East-Central Europe.
Lee Peterson's first collection of poems, Rooms and Fields: Dramatic Monologues from the War in Bosnia (Kent State University Press, 2004) was selected [End Page 163] by Jean Valentine for the 2003 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. Peterson teaches English and creative writing at Penn State Altoona.
Renya K. Ramirez is an enrolled member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. Her interests include diaspora, transnationalism, Native feminisms, and gender and cultural citizenship. She is Assistant Professor of American Studies at U.C. Santa Cruz. Her focus is Native American studies.
Silvia Schultermandl holds a Ph.D. in American Literature and Culture Studies from Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria. She is currently a lecturer in English at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She has published several articles on multi-ethnic American literatures and is currently at work on a monograph on mother–daughter relationships in Asian American literature.
Rickie Solinger is a historian writing books about reproductive politics, welfare politics, and the questions, who gets to be a "legitimate mother" in the U.S., who does not, and what do race and class have to do with this? For 15 years, Solinger has been curating and traveling exhibitions about these matters, aiming to "interrupt the curriculum."
Cathy Song is the author of Picture Bride (Yale 1983), Frameless Windows, Squares of Light (Norton 1988), School Figures (Pittsburgh 1994), and The Land of Bliss (Pittsburgh 2001). Her fifth collection of poetry, Cloud Moving Hands, will appear as part of the Pitt Poetry Series in Fall 2007.
Keli Stewart is a mother, performance artist, and doctoral student of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. She received her B.A. in Creative Writing from Columbia College in 2002. Her current work, a performance piece, "House of Forks and Knives," received the Douglas Turner Ward/Alice Childress Scriptwriting Prize.
Jennifer Thorington Springer is an Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. Her research and teaching interests include Caribbean Literature and Cultural Studies, and Contemporary African American Literature. She is currently working on a book-length manuscript, which explores the migratory acts of Caribbean female immigrants and is also co-editing an Anthology of Contemporary Caribbean Women Writers.
