Contributors
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Randa Abou-Bakr (randaaboubakr@yahoo.co.uk) is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cairo University, where she teaches courses on Victorian and Modern Poetry, Comparative Literature, and Literary Translation. Her research interests include Victorian Poetry, Modern Poetry, Egyptian Colloquial Poetry, Contemporary Cultural Theory, and Translation Theory—areas where she has widely lectured and published in Egypt and internationally. Her publications include: The Conflict of Voices in the Poetry of Dennis Brutus and Mahmud Darwish (Reichert Verlag, 2004) and "Robert Browning's Dramatic Lyrics: Contribution to a Genre," in Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics 21 (2001). She is also a professional translator from and into Arabic and English. Among her published translations is a translation into Arabic of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, published in Amman, by Azminah Publishers (2007). She is currently fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin.
Pius Adesanmi is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Project on New African Literatures (PONAL) at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. A poet and critic, he obtained a First Class Honours degree in French and Francophone Studies from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria (1992). He subsequently obtained a Master's degree and a Ph.D. in the same discipline from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and the University of British Columbia respectively. He has since pursued a career as a scholar of Anglophone and Francophone African and Black Diasporic literatures and cultures. He is a two-time Fellow of the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) and has guest-lectured widely in universities in Africa, Europe, and North America. He has contributed essays on literature and culture to several journals, literary reviews, newspapers, and edited books. He regularly serves as a manuscript reviewer for literary publications. His poetry collection, The Wayfarer and Other Poems won the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize in 2001. Before joining Carleton, he was an [End Page 437] Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at The Pennsylvania State University from 2002–2006.
Sofia Ahlberg (sofia.ahlberg@gmail.com), Assistant Professor, teaches American and women's literature at La Trobe University, Australia. She has contributed to The New English Series for Palgrave Macmillan and published on transhemispheric issues for Studies in the Humanities and other journals. Her first book, which investigates the leftist European perception of a violent America, is in progress with the support of the University of Melbourne.
Wendy Laura Belcher is assistant professor of African literature in the Princeton University Department of Comparative Literature and the Center for African American Studies. With Thomas A. Hale, she is compiling an anthology of medieval and early modern African written literature. With Kesis Melaku Terefe, she is translating from Ge'ez into English an African book from the 1600s about Ethiopian women's successful resistance to Portuguese para-colonialism. She is completing a book on the circulation of African thought in Europe and England before the nineteenth century and how non-Western discourse has participated in a global traffic in invention.
Irène D'Almeida, Professor, Department of French and Italian, The University of Arizona, teaches French language and Francophone African Literature. Her research centers on Francophone African women authors who write in a variety of genres, including autobiography, fiction, and poetry. Her work is increasingly interdisciplinary. At the moment, she is conducting research on how globalization is affecting African feminist discourses. She is also examining "Francophonie," a cultural construct which has profound political, economic, and psychological impact on the lives of Francophone Africans and on the literature they produce. Her publications include: Francophone African Women Writers: Destroying the Emptiness of Silence (Gainesville: The U of Florida P, 1994) and Femmes africaines en poésie [African Women's Poetry], a volume she edited that was published in Bremen, Germany in 2001.
Sarah Fulford has lectured in post-colonial literature at Durham and Exeter universities, UK. Her first book was Gendered Spaces in Contemporary Irish Poetry (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2002). She has published essays, interviews, and reviews in The Cambridge Quarterly, the Oxford Literary Review, The Irish Literary Review, Poetry Review, and Resurgence magazine. Other essays [End Page 438] appear in Literature and Place, ed. Peter...
