Contributors
- Contributors
Anna Mae Duane (anna.duane@uconn.edu) is the Director of American Studies and an Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Suffering Childhood in Early America: Violence, Race and the Making of the Child Victim (University of Georgia Press, 2010). She is the editor of the forthcoming collection The Children’s Table: Childhood Studies and the Humanities (University of Georgia Press, 2013) and is the co-editor of Hope is the First Great Blessing: Leaves from the New York African Free School Presentation Book 1812–1826 (New-York Historical Society, 2008). She is currently working on a book that analyzes the intertwined discourses of African colonization and education by tracing the careers of the alumni of the New York African Free School as they became the first generation of African American doctors, actors, and activists.
Linda Lizut Helstern (linda.helstern@ndsu.edu) is an Associate Professor of English at North Dakota State University, where she teaches Native, multi-ethnic, and environmental literature. She has published widely on Gerald Vizenor. Her essay “Museum Survivance: Vizenor Before and After Repatriation” appeared in Gerald Vizenor: Texts and Contexts (2010), and “Vizenor’s Life Studies: Revisioning Survivance in Almost There” was recently featured in The Poetry and Poetics of Gerald Vizenor (2012), both published by the University of New Mexico Press. Helstern is also the author of Louis Owens (Western Writers Series, 2005) and “My Ántonia and the Making of the Great Race,” recently reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Her current projects include studies of traditional environmental knowledge in the creative nonfiction of Robin Wall Kimmerer and the experimental Native fictions of Stephen Graham Jones.
Adalaine Holton (adalaine.holton@stockton.edu) is an Associate Professor of Literature at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. She has published articles in Arizona Quarterly and The Journal of African American History. Her current book project examines innovative archival projects constructed by twentieth-century black Atlantic intellectuals.
Leisa Kauffmann (lkauffmann@wayne.edu) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Wayne State University. A colonialist with a concentration in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mexican histories of the pre-Hispanic past, she has previously published articles on the work of Fray Toribio de Benavente (Motolinía), Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl, and Fray Bernardino de Sahagún. Her research focuses on issues of Nahua-Spanish cultural interaction and transculturation in colonial writing, and she is currently working on a book on the representation of rulership in Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s histories.
Martina Koegeler-Abdi (martina.koegeler@gmx.at) holds a Magister’s degree in American and Spanish Studies from the University of Graz, Austria, and an MA in Comparative Literature and a Women’s and Gender Studies Graduate Certificate from State University of New York, Stony Brook. Her research interests include multi-ethnic US literatures, transnational feminisms, and histories of identity politics. She is the co-editor of the forthcoming book Interculturality: Practice Meets Research. Her current research addresses Arab American women authors’ transnational aesthetic choices when writing within orientalist majority discourses in the US. [End Page 156]
Ilka Kressner (ikressner@albany.edu) is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Focusing on twentieth-century to contemporary Spanish American literature and film, her research interests include concepts of space in art, performance studies, intermediality, transculturation, and ecocriticism. She has published articles on Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, Severo Sarduy, Alejandra Pizarnik, Ana María Shua, William Ospina, Roxana Crisólogo, and Ylonka Nacidit-Perdomo, and on topics such as ruins in film, notions of vertigo in poetry, hybrid bodies in micro-stories, and rivers in contemporary Latin American novels. Her monograph Sites of Disquiet: The Non-Space in Spanish American Short Narratives and their Cinematic Transformations is forthcoming from Purdue University Press.
Tim Lanzendörfer (lanzendo@uni-mainz.de) is a lecturer in the American Studies department at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. In the summer of 2013, his dissertation will be published by Ferdinand Schöningh as The Professionalization of the American Magazine: Periodicals, Biography, and Nationalism in...
