Contributors
- Contributors
Ryan Burt (rburt@uw.edu) is a Lecturer in English and Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington. His current book project examines early twentieth-century Lakota and Dakota autobiography in relation to the Dawes Act and the “Indian New Deal.”
Martha J. Cutter (martha.cutter@uconn.edu) is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, where she teaches ethnic literature, African American literature, and women’s literature. She is the former editor of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, and since 2006 she has edited MELUS. Her first book, Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women’s Writing, 1850–1930 (University Press of Mississippi, 1999) won the Nancy Dasher Award from the College English Association for the best book of literary criticism published between 1999–2001. Her second book, Lost and Found in Translation, was published in 2005 by the University of North Carolina Press. Her articles have appeared in American Literature, African American Literature, MELUS, Callaloo, Women’s Studies, Legacy, Criticism, and other journals, and she has contributed chapters to Mixed Race Literature (2002) and Passing and the Fictions of Identity (1996). She is currently at work on a book about racial passing.
Joseph Entin (JEntin@brooklyn.cuny.edu) is an Assistant Professor in English and American Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He is the author of Sensational Modernism: Experimental Fiction and Photography in Thirties America (2007) and coeditor of Controversies in the Classroom: A Radical Teacher Reader (2008). He is currently working on a project about the working class in post-1930s US fiction, photography, and film.
Ayesha K. Hardison (hardison@ohio.edu) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Ohio University. Her research interests include race, gender, and sexuality in literature as well as visual texts. She currently is working on a manuscript examining representations of black women in mid-twentieth century African American literature, and she has an article on Zora Neale Hurston forthcoming in African American Review. [End Page 240]
George Hartley (geohartley@groovdigit.com), an Associate Professor of English, teaches Conquest Studies at Ohio University. He is the author of Textual Politics and the Language Poets (1989), The Abyss of Representation: Marxism and the Postmodern Sublime (2003), and a book manuscript in progress (of which the essay in this issue is a part), The Curandera of Conquest: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Decolonizing Consciousness.
Esther Jones (EsJones@clarku.edu) is the E. Franklin Frazier Professor of African American Literature, Theory, and Culture and Assistant Professor of English at Clark University. She specializes in the study of race and gender in popular culture and speculative fiction by Africana women writers.
James Kim (james.kim.ny@gmail.com) is an Assistant Professor of English at Fordham University, where he specializes in both eighteenth-century British literature and contemporary Asian American literature. He is currently working on two books—Dialectics of Loss: Sentimental Irony and the Philosophy of History and Asian American Anger: Toward a Geopolitical Economy of Racial Feeling.
Peter Kvidera (pkvidera@mirapoint.jcu.edu) teaches at John Carroll University in Cleveland where he is an Associate Professor of English and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences. He has published essays in such journals as The New England Quarterly, American Literature, and American Quarterly. He also recently contributed to Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture (a Modern Language Association “Options for Teaching” book).
Stephanie Li (stephanie.li@rochester.edu) is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Rochester. Her recent book, “Something Akin to Freedom”: The Choice of Bondage in Narratives by African American Women, received the SUNY Press First Book Prize in African American Studies. She has published in Callaloo, American Literature, and Legacy and authored a biography of Toni Morrison from Greenwood Press. [End Page 241]
Wenxin Li (liw@sunysuffolk.edu) is an Associate Professor of English at Suffolk Community College, the State University of New York. His scholarly essays have appeared in Paideuma, The Image of America in Literature, Media, and Society, MELUS, and Asian American Literary Studies. He is currently at work on a book project...
