About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Meena Alexander was born in India, raised there and in Sudan. At eighteen, she went to study in England. Her first poems were published when she was a teenager in Sudan, in Arabic translation. Currently, she lives and works in New York City where she is Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York and teaches in the M.F.A. program at Hunter College and the Ph.D. program at the Graduate Center.
Alexandra Lynn Barron is an assistant professor at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. She teaches interdisciplinary courses on globalization, film, and writing.
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Pamela Butler is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of American Studies, with a minor in Feminist Studies, at the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation-in-progress, “Global Chicks: Neoliberal Feminism and Cosmopolitan Travel,” analyzes how neoliberal feminism operates through discourses of mobility and transnationalism in U.S. popular culture and the discipline of women’s studies.
Jigna Desai is an associate professor in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include Asian American, postcolonial, queer, and diasporic cultural and cinema studies. Her book Beyond Bollywood: The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film analyzes the complex relationships between diaspora and nation in the current moment of globalization through contestations over gender and sexuality in South Asian transnational public cultures in the U.S., Canada, Britain, and South Asia. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled Bollywood, USA: Global Indian Cinema in Asian America.
Aisha S. Durham is a doctoral candidate in the Institute of Communications Research and an Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities fellow at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Research [End Page 183] examining the hip-hop generation is featured in her co-edited book, Home Girls Make Some Noise!: A Hip Hop Feminism Anthology.
Grace Kyungwon Hong is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies at UCLA. She is the author of The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and the Culture of Immigrant Labor (University of Minnesota Press, 2006).
Myisha Priest is a writer and an assistant professor of English at Santa Clara University, where she specializes in African American literature. Her forthcoming book, The Children’s Miracle, examines children’s literature and African American writing.
Debra Priestly’s provocative work is a manifestation of her curiosity about what sustains time and occurrence. Her visual metaphors suggest the knowledge she seeks about her roots and about the world around her. Priestly holds a BFA from The Ohio State University and an MFA from Pratt Institute. Her work has been shown in many one-person and group exhibitions throughout the US and abroad and is represented in the collections of The Ohio State University, The Schom-burg Center for Research in Black Culture, The Atlanta Life Insurance Company, Ariel Capital Management, AT&T, The Sandor Family Collection, and other private collections.
Glenis Redmond is a 2005–2006 North Carolina Arts Council Literary Award recipient and a Denny C. Plattner Award winner for Outstanding Poetry sponsored by the Appalachian Heritage journal. She has been published most recently in African Voices, EMRYS, The Asheville Poetry Review, 2006 Kakalak: A Journal of Carolina Poets, Appalachian Heritage, and the Appalachian Journal. Redmond is a native of Greenville, South Carolina and she presently resides in Asheville, North Carolina with her twin daughters Amber and Celeste.
Loretta J. Ross became involved in Black Nationalist politics while attending Howard University, 1970–73. A leader in the anti-rape and anti-racism movements in the 1970s and 1980s, she co-founded the International Council of African Women and served as Director of Women of Color Programs for the National Organization for Women and Program Director for the National Black Women’s Health Project. After managing the research and program departments for the Center for Democratic Renewal, an anti-Klan organization, Ross established the National Center for Human Rights Education in 1996, which she [End Page 184] directed through 2004. In 2005 she became national coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective.
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