About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Elizabeth Catlett is a master sculptor, painter, printmaker, and activist best known for her work during the 1960s and 70s, when she created politically charged, black expressionistic sculptures and prints. Much of her work expresses her genuine interest in the issues of race and ethnicity and in issues involving women. Regarded as a significant 20th century artist, Catlett’s works are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others.
Miliann Kang is an assistant professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and affiliated faculty in Sociology and Asian/Asian American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her book, The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work (University of California Press, 2010) examines service interactions between women in Asian-owned nail salons, and won the Sara Whaley book prize from the National Women’s Studies Association. Currently, she is researching work–family issues for Asian American women and the ways that gender and race influence motherhood and career paths. Her research has been supported by the American Association of University Women, the Ford Foundation, the Institute for Asian American Studies at UMass Boston, the Labor Center at UMass Amherst, and the Social Science Research Council.
Jessica Labbé holds a joint doctorate in American literature and women’s studies from the University of South Carolina—Columbia. Her research explores twentieth-century multicultural American women writers as well as digital pedagogy in college composition. She is an assistant professor at Francis Marion University, where she teaches literature and writing.
Samantha Pinto is an assistant professor of Feminist Literary and Cultural Studies in the English Department at Georgetown University. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled, “Intimate Migrations: Transnational Feminism and the Black Diaspora,” which explores the affinities and tensions between these interdisciplinary fields through the lens of black women’s writing and cultural production. Her research interests also include postcolonial sexualities, celebrity studies, and subaltern cultures of modernity. [End Page 164]
Shireen Roshanravan holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture from Binghamton University. She is currently an assistant professor of Women’s Studies at Kansas State University. Her research interests include U.S. women of color feminisms, decolonial research methodologies, and homosexuality in South Asian diasporic community-formation.
Ariana Vigil is an assistant professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She conducts teaching and research on contemporary U.S. Latina/o literature and is currently working on a book that looks at Latina/o responses to U.S. intervention.
Cynthia Wu is an assistant professor of American Studies at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She teaches and publishes in the fields of Asian American and comparative ethnic studies, disability studies, and queer theory.
Ayaka Yoshimizu is a doctoral student in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. She completed her master’s project on poetic practices of Japanese diasporic women in the northwest United States. Her current research explores Asian migrants’ experiences of displacement and their spatial practices in the inner city of Yokohama, Japan. [End Page 165]
