About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Martha Ackelsberg, William R. Kenan, JR. Professor of Government and of the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College, is the author of Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women (Indiana University Press, 1991) and of Resisting Citizenship: Feminist Essays on Politics, Community, and Democracy (Routledge, forthcoming). Her research and teaching focus on the nature and structure of political communities, and, in particular, on patterns of power and participation within them.
Laurie Ann Guerrero's poems have appeared in Palo Alto Review, Global City Review, Feminist Studies, and others. Guerrero holds a B.A. in English from Smith College and is in the M.F.A. program for Poetry and Poetry in Translation at Drew University. Her book, Babies under the Skin, won the Panhandler Chapbook Award, chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye.
Erica L. Johnson is an assistant professor of English at Wagner College in New York City, where she teaches postcolonial literature. She is the author of Home, Maison, Casa: The Politics of Location in the Works of Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Erminia Dell'Oro, as well as articles on Dionne Brand, Maryse Condé, Virginia Woolf, and Hélène Cixous.
Daníel R. Martínez is a scholar/poet teaching creative writing and Chicana/o Literature at New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas, NM. He lives with family and pets in Albuquerque, NM.
Cherríe Moraga is the co-editor of This Bridge Called My Back and the author of the now classic Loving in the War Years. She is the Artist in Residence in the Department of Drama and Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity at Stanford University. In 2007, she was awarded the United States Artist Rockefeller Fellowship for Literature.
Yu Shi is an assistant professor of communications and humanities at Penn State Harrisburg. Her research centers on global media studies, media cultural criticism, and issues of race, ethnicity, gender, class, immigration, and culture in the lives of Chinese immigrant women in the United States.
Jennifer J. Smith is currently at Indiana University, where she is completing a dissertation titled "Abridged Forms, Expanded Nationalisms: Ethnicity in the American Short-Story Cycle." Her current [End Page 189] research examines the development of the genre, from its nineteenth-century antecedents to its present-day incarnations, alongside shifting notions of pluralism and ethnicity within U.S. cultural thought. She is particularly interested in the relationship between the autonomy and interdependence of the stories and the tensions between self and belonging that the form articulates.
Julia Sudbury is Metz Professor of Ethnic Studies at Mills College. She is author of Other Kinds of Dreams: Black Women's Organizations and the Politics of Transformation (1998) and editor of Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex (2006) and Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption (2006). Sudbury is a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national prison abolitionist organization, and board member of Justice Now, an organization that aims to end the imprisonment of and violence against women. She has been involved in the anti-prison, anti-racist, women of color, global justice, and LGBT movements in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.
Lourdes Torres is professor of Latin American and Latino studies at DePaul University. She is the author of Puerto Rican Discourse and co-editor of Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism and Tortilleras: Hispanic and Latina Lesbian Expression. She teaches and writes about Latinos in the U.S., queer latinidades, and sociolingustics.
Gina Athena Ulysse is associate professor of anthropology and African American studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. Her interests include political economy, feminism, Haitian diaspora, and ethnographic writing. She is the author of Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, A Haitian Anthropologist and Self-making in Jamaica. She is also a poet and performance artist.
Alice Walker is one of the most prolific and important writers of our time, known for her literary fiction, including the Pulitzer prize-winning The Color Purple (now a major Broadway play), her many volumes of poetry, and her powerful nonfiction collections. Her other best-selling books include In Search of Our Mother's Gardens...
