Contributors
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Bruce Barnhart is a visiting assistant professor of English at Wake Forest University. He has published in African American Review, New Essays on the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, and The African American National Biography.
Stéphanie Bérard is an assistant professor of French at the University of Virginia and author of Théâtres des Antilles: traditions et scènes contemporaines (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2009). She is also author of a number of articles in periodicals and anthologies, including Langue et identité narrative dans les littératures de l'ailleurs, Small Axe, L'Annuaire théâtral, Theater Research International, The French Review, Women in French Studies, and others.
Todd Carmody is a candidate for the PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published in the Journal of Modern Literature and Criticism, and in such anthologies as The Heritages of William Carlos Williams: Points of Contact and Tribute to Professor Oya Basak: (Re) reading Shakespeare in Text and Performance.
Kathleen Crown, Director of Studies at Mathey College at Princeton University, has published in such anthologies, reference sources, and periodicals as Assembling Alternatives: Essays on the Problems of Reading Postmodern Poetries Transnationally, We Who "Love to Be Astonished": Feminist Experimental Fiction, Poetry, and Performance, Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, and Poetics Today. In 1998, she guest edited a special issue of Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal devoted to "American Women Poets and the Long Poem."
Angie Cruz, a New York born Dominicana, is author of two novels, Soledad and Let It Rain Coffee. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in the New York Times, Callaloo, and a number of anthologies. She is a recipient of the Van Lier Literary Fellowship, the Barbara Deming Award, and the New York Foundation of the Arts Award. She teaches courses in creative writing at Texas A&M University, College Station, where she is at work on a third novel.
Roxanna Curto, who recently received the PhD in French from Yale University, is an assistant professor at Illinois State University.
Geffrey Davis is currently studying for the PhD in English and the MFA in poetry at Pennsylvania State University.
Ondra Krouse Dismukes is a candidate for the PhD in English at the University of Georgia. Her publications have appeared in such reference tools, periodicals, and anthologies as The Greenwood Encyclopedia Multiethnic American Literature and The Langston Hughes Review.
Joseph Donahue is author of more than eight volumes of poems, including Terra Lucida, The Copper Scroll, In this Paradise, and Incidental Eclipse. He is also author of a number of articles on poets in such volumes as Scribner's British Writers Series, Supplement IV 1997, Garland Encyclopedia of American 19th Century Poetry, and The World in Time and Space: A History of Innovative American Poetry 1970–2000; and co-editor of two anthologies, Primary Trouble: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry and The World in Time and Space: A History of Innovative American Poetry 1970–2000. He lives in Durham, North Carolina. [End Page 908]
Nathaniel Donnett, a graduate of Texas Southern University, is an interdisciplinary artist whose work has been exhibited in Texas, California, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, and in Peru. In 2009 he was a nominee for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant, and in 2010 he received the Artadia Award. His current work addresses the coded meanings of paper bags and plastic bags.
Brent Hayes Edwards is a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He is the author of The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Harvard University Press, 2003), which was awarded the John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Studies Association and the Gilbert Chinard Prize of the Society for French Historical Studies. His book Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination will be published by Harvard in 2011. His current projects include a translation of Michel Leiris's L'Afrique fantôme and a cultural history of "loft jazz" in downtown New York during the 1970s.
Vievee Francis, a native of Texas who recently received the MFA from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), is author of Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State University Press, 2006), her first collection of poems...
