Contributors
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Kristin Bergen
Kristin Bergen is assistant professor of English at Howard University, where she teaches American literature. Her work focuses on the early twentieth century, race, and imperialism. She is writing about Gertrude Stein, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the problem of particularity and representation.
Matt Delmont
Matt Delmont is assistant professor of American studies at Scripps College in Claremont, California. His research and teaching areas include popular culture and media studies, urban history, education, and comparative ethnic studies. He has published articles in the Journal of Urban History, History of Education Quarterly, and the Journal of Pan-African Studies. His first book, The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia, will be published by University of California Press (American Crossroads series) in February 2012.
Robeson Taj P. Frazier
Robeson Taj P. Frazier is assistant professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. His research and teaching examine race, cross-cultural exchange and traffic, social movements, and popular culture. He is considering these themes in a forthcoming book on Cold War international exchanges and examples of collaboration between the People's Republic of China and African American activist-intellectuals and media practitioners. His work has been published in African Americans in Global Affairs (2010), as well as in the Journal of African American History, Socialism and Democracy, the Black Arts Quarterly, and Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society.
Laura Grantmyre
Laura Grantmyre is a PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh and is researching how visual representations of "blight" influenced redevelopment policy in the Lower Hill District during the 1950s and how images were used to contest the spread of redevelopment into the Middle and Upper Hill during the 1960s. [End Page 1087]
Kimberly A. Hamlin
Kimberly A. Hamlin is assistant professor of American studies and history and a faculty affiliate of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her current research explores the intersections among science, gender, religion, and popular culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her book manuscript, "From Eve to Evolution: Gender and the American Reception of Charles Darwin," is under review. Together with Carolyn de la Peña, Hamlin cofounded the American Studies Association's Science and Technology Caucus.
Amira Jarmakani
Amira Jarmakani is associate professor of women's studies at Georgia State University. She is the author of Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), which won the National Women's Studies Association Gloria Anzaldúa 2008 book prize. She works in women's and gender studies, Arab American studies, and cultural studies, and she is currently at work on a project about the popularity of the "sheikh" hero in mass-market romance novels, tentatively titled "'To Catch a Sheik' in the War on Terror: Reading the Desert Romance."
David Kazanjian
David Kazanjian is associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America (University of Minnesota Press, 2003), and has coedited (with David L. Eng) Loss: The Politics of Mourning (University of California Press, 2003), as well as (with Shay Brawn, Bonnie Dow, Lisa Maria Hogeland, Mary Klages, Deb Meem, and Rhonda Pettit) The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume One: Seventeenth through Nineteenth Centuries (Aunt Lute Books, 2004). He is completing The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World.
Christopher S. Leslie
Christopher S. Leslie is instructor of media and technology studies in the Department of Technology, Culture and Society at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. As part of NYU-Poly's Science and Technology Studies program, he teaches courses in the history of new media, scientific culture, and literature. He is completing a manuscript that looks at twentieth-century science fiction in the United States from the perspectives of media studies [End Page 1088] and the history of technology, tentatively titled "Social Science Fiction, from Hyperspace to Hypertext: The Construction of a...
