Contributors
- Contributors
Yiorgos Anagnostou (anagnostou.1@osu.edu) is an Associate Professor in the Modern Greek Program in the Department of Classics at Ohio State University. He is the author of Contours of White Ethnicity: Popular Ethnography and the Making of Usable Pasts in Greek America (Ohio University Press, 2009) and numerous articles on US ethnicities and the Greek diaspora.
Martha J. Cutter (martha.cutter@uconn.edu) is a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut and the editor-in-chief of 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 and 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, Arizona Quarterly, and in several essay collections.
Ellen J. Goldner (ellen.goldner@mail.csi.cuny.edu) is an Associate Professor of English at the College of Staten Island and the Director of the Bertha Harris Women’s Center. She is the coeditor with Safiya Henderson-Holmes of Racing and (E)Racing Language: Living with the Color of Our Words (Syracuse University Press, 2001) and the author of numerous articles on American and African American literature. She is currently working on books on the role of motion in popular abolitionism and on feminism in the corporate university.
Lori Harrison-Kahan (harrislo@bc.edu) is a coeditor of the MELUS special issue “The Future of Jewish American Literary Studies” (Summer 2012) and author of The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary (Rutgers University Press, 2011). Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Cinema Journal, MELUS, The James Joyce Quarterly, Jewish Social Studies, Legacy, Modern Fiction Studies, Modern Language Studies, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, and a number of edited collections. A recipient of the American Studies Association’s Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award for Independent Scholars and Contingent Faculty, she currently teaches in the English Department at Boston College. [End Page 218]
Elizabeth McNeil (mcneil@asu.edu) is an Instructor of English and Affiliate Faculty in African and African American Studies and Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. Her current teaching and research interests include multi-ethnic women’s science and literature, ecofeminist approaches to literature, “freak” studies of literature and film, and transgender and intersex literature and film. Recent publications include the co-edited volume Sapphire’s Literary Breakthrough: Erotic Literacies, Feminist Pedagogies, Environmental Justice Perspectives (Palgrave, 2012), a monograph, Trickster Discourse: Mediating Transformation for a New World (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010), and an article on the Gullah seeker’s journey in Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow (MELUS, 2009).
Marguerite Nguyen (mbnguyen@wesleyan.edu) is an Assistant Professor of English at Wesleyan University. She specializes in American literature, with emphases in Vietnamese American literature, Modernism, diaspora, and genre. Her current project examines the impact of Vietnamese decolonization on twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literary aesthetics.
Erik Nielson (enielson@richmond.edu) is an Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Richmond, where he teaches courses on African American literature, hip-hop culture, and advanced writing. His work has been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals, including International Journal of Cultural Studies, Popular Communication, Journal of Black Studies, and Journal of Popular Music Studies. He also has articles forthcoming in African American Review and the edited collection Mothering and Hip Hop Culture (Demeter Press). He is currently at work on his manuscript, Under Surveillance: Policing the Resistance in Hip Hop, for Manchester University Press.
Amanda M. Page (dr.amanda.page@gmail.com) is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Marywood University, where she teaches American literature, composition, and world literature. A contributing editor to The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An Anthology (University of North Carolina Press, 2006), she is currently writing a book examining the novels and short essays of contemporary author Chang-Rae Lee. She is also at work on a manuscript titled Passing Affinities...
