Contributors
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Elizabeth Alexander, the Inaugural Poet for President Barack Obama, is Professor and Director of African American Studies at Yale University. She is also author of two collections of essays, The Black Interior and Power and Possibility, and five volumes of poems, The Venus Hottentot, Body of Life, Antebellum Dream Book, American Sublime, and (with Marilyn Nelson) Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies and Little Misses of Color, which won the 2008 Connecticut Book Award.
Claudine Armand is an associate professor of English at Nancy 2 University, France. She is author of Anne Ryan: Collages, the catalogue for the exhibition she curated in 2001 at the Museum of American Art in Giverny, France. She has done work on a number of artists, including the Abstract Expressionists (e.g., Hans Hofmann and Barnett Newman) and such contemporary artists as Fred Wilson and Lorna Simpson.
Barbara Chase-Riboud, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a sculptor, poet, and fiction writer who studied visual art at Temple University, Yale University, and the American Academy in Rome, before she moved to Paris, France. Her writing career began in 1974 with the publication of From Memphis & Peking: Poems. She is also author of six other books, including Hottentot Venus: A Novel, Echo of Lions, and Sally Hemings: A Novel, winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize in 1979. Chase-Riboud began her career as a visual artist as early as the 1960s, when she exhibited her work at the New York Architectural League Show, the Festival of Negro Art in Dakar in Senegal, and the L'Oeil Ecoute Festival in Avignon, France. Since that time, her work has been mounted in museums throughout the United States and Europe.
Robert J. Corber is Professor and Director of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program at Trinity College. He is the author of In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America, and Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity. His new book, Cold War Femme:Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema, is forthcoming from Duke University Press.
Laura Dawkins is an associate professor of American literature and the Director of Graduate Studies in English at Murray State University. She has authored articles on American literature and culture published in LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, 49th Parallel, Short Story, The American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader (edited by Caroline Levander and Carol Singley), Prose and Cons: Essays on Prison Literature in the United States (edited by D. Quentin Miller), and Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination (edited by Harriet Pollack and Christopher Metress).
Gary Edward Holcomb is an associate professor of African American literature in the Americas in the Department of African American Studies at Ohio University. He is the author of Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance (2007), and has published articles in such journals as Callaloo, Journal of Modern Literature, and Modern Fiction Studies. He is currently co-editing a collection of essays by various scholars titled Hemingway and the Black Renaissance for Kent State University Press. [End Page 1037]
Reginald Jackson is an assistant professor of theater studies and East Asian languages and literatures at Yale University, where he teaches courses on Japanese theater, literature, performance analysis, and critical theory. He has interpreted for professional Noh actors as part of the Kyoto Art Center's Traditional Theater Training Program, and from 2005–2006 served as a Fulbright Research Fellow at the Nogami Memorial Institute for Noh Drama Research in Tokyo.
Sara Clarke Kaplan is an assistant professor of ethnic studies and critical gender studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her work has appeared in such periodicals as Black Women, Gender and Families, American Literary History, and Callaloo.
Emily Lordi is a visiting lecturer in English at Cornell University and a PhD candidate in English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Her dissertation reads the work of twentieth-century African American writers through their engagements with classic black women singers such as Billie Holiday and Aretha Franklin. She has served as assistant curator for the Gallery Project at Jazz at Lincoln Center. She is...
