List of Contributors
- List of Contributors
Andra M. Basu is currently an associate professor of psychology at Albright College, where she conducts research in the fields of social psychology and education. More specifically, her research interests include the relationship of biracial identity to social context, the role of gender for biracial students, and perceptions of interracial relationships.
Kellie Bean is a professor of English and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Marshall University. She publishes on drama, feminism, and popular culture. Her book, Post-backlash Feminism (2007), addresses regressive depictions of feminists and their politics within the popular press.
Anne Harris is a lecturer in creativity and the arts in the School of Education at Victoria University, focusing on and publishing extensively in the areas of ethnocinema, performativity of identity, and critical pedagogy. Her doctoral thesis, Cross-Marked: Sudanese Australian Young Women Talk Education, is a series of seven short ethnocinematic films cocreated with and about Sudanese young women and their educational experiences in Australia. She is also a playwright, videographer, and musician and is an artistic associate of the Pumphouse Theatre (Melbourne). She received her MFA at New York University where she studied with Tony Kushner and Arthur Miller.
Lorraine Leu is a senior lecturer (associate professor) in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at the University of Bristol, England. She is one of the editors of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, and is the author of Brazilian Popular Music: Caetano Veloso and the Regeneration of Tradition (2006). She has also written on the representation of criminals in the Brazilian press and in cinema; and on the criminalization of subaltern subjects through urbanization projects and in public discourse. She is writing a book on crime, urban history, and the cinema in Rio de Janeiro.
Akinyi Margareta Ocholla was born in 1976 to a Swedish mother and Kenyan father in Uppsala, Sweden. Akinyi’s parents immigrated to Kenya when she was five years old. She grew up in Nairobi and after completing a course in Önnestad, in southern Sweden, returned to Kenya to study meteorology at the University of Nairobi. During her four years there, she painted actively on the side and displayed at a number of local and a few international exhibitions. The first-class honors of her bachelor’s degree earned her a scholarship to pursue her master’s. This was followed [End Page 165] very quickly by a concept paper for her Ph.D. She worked very briefly at the IGAD Climate Predictions and Applications Centre in Nairobi but thereafter took up a course in community development and later joined the human rights movement for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in Kenya.
Aino Rinhaug is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oslo and a visiting fellow at the University of London. Her areas of research include comparative literature and cultural studies. In particular, she is focusing on Portuguese literature (from Portugal, Brazil, and Lusophone Africa) as well as on world literature, transculturalism, and transnationalism, with an interdisciplinary approach to literature and aesthetics. Having received her Ph.D. in 2007, she is now writing a book on Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, and co-editing a study on the contemporary author António Lobo Antunes.
Juhu Thukral is the director of law and advocacy at The Opportunity Agenda in New York City. She is a founding member of the Steering Committee for the N.Y. Anti-Trafficking Network, and was the founding Director of the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center. Thukral has been an advocate for the rights of low-income and immigrant women in the areas of sexual health and rights, gender-based violence, economic security, and criminal justice for twenty years. [End Page 166]
