Contributors’ Notes
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Robert Azzarello is an Assistant Professor of English at Southern University at New Orleans. He is the author of Queer Environmentality: Ecology, [End Page 78] Evolution, and Sexuality in American Literature (Ashgate 2012).
Stephanie Becker recently completed her master’s degree at Colorado State University, where she is now working as an instructor. She continues to volunteer with the SpeakOut! program.
Michael Brawn has been a student with the Education Justice Project since the summer of 2004.
Jose Cabrales is a “founding student” of the Education Justice Project and is also a member of the Language Partners Program at EJP.
Kirsten K. Coe is an ecologist and post-secondary educator currently conducting research on the response of tundra ecosystems to global change. Kirsten received her Ph.D. in plant physiological ecology from Cornell University, where she spent two years teaching ecology to incarcerated students at Auburn Correctional Facility through the Cornell Prison Education Program. In her work, Kirsten is strongly committed to undergraduate education, social justice, and empowerment thorough experiential learning, particularly using the scientific method and exposure to natural systems.
Dan Colson is an Assistant Professor of English at Emporia State University. He specializes in American Literature from 1880-1940.
Linda Dittmar is a long-standing member of Radical Teacher’s editorial group and Professor Emerita at the University of Massachusetts—Boston, where she taught literature and film studies for forty years. Her writing includes the books From Hanoi To Hollywood; The Vietnam War In American Film and Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism as well as many book chapters and articles. Her current research and teaching concern literary and film representations of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a memoir in progress.
Gregory Donatelli is a student currently attending the University of Illinois’ Education Justice Project.
Kate Drabinski is a Lecturer in Gender and Women’s Studies at UMBC where she also directs the Women Involved in Learning and Leadership program, a student activist program on campus.
Gillian Harkins is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs in English at the University of Washington, Seattle. She has worked with the University Beyond Bars offering courses inside the Washington State Reformatory for men since 2009 and the Freedom Education Project Puget Sound offering courses inside the Washington Corrections Center for Women since 2011. She is the author of Everybody’s Family Romance: Reading Incest in Neoliberal America (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
Nicholas Hartlep is an Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations at Illinois State University where he teaches courses on the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education. He is author of Going Public: Critical Race Theory and Issues of Social Justice (Tate Publishing, 2010). [End Page 79]
Tobi Jacobi is an associate professor of composition and rhetoric and the director of both the Writing Center and the Center for Community Literacy in the English Department at Colorado State University. Her research focuses on community literacies and the experiences of incarcerated writers and is informed by composition theory, critical literacy, and feminist studies. She coordinates the facilitation of weekly SpeakOut! writing workshops for incarcerated writers and at-risk youth and supervises the publication of zines and the biannual SpeakOut! Journal.
James Kilgore served six and a half years in Federal and State prisons in California. While incarcerated he served as a teacher’s aide and also wrote several novels, including the published titles: We Are All Zimbabweans Now, Freedom Never Rests, and Prudence Couldn’t Swim. He now lives in Champaign, IL where he is a research scholar at the Center for African Studies at the University of Illinois.
Paul Lauter is Allan K. and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He has served as President of the American Studies Association (of the United States), and he is General Editor of the groundbreaking Heath Anthology of American Literature, now in its sixth edition. Lauter’s most recent books include From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park (Duke, 2001), an edited volume with Ann Fitzgerald titled Literature, Class, and Culture (Longmans, 2001), an edition of Thoreau’s Walden and “Civil Disobedience,” and a Blackwell Companion to American Literature and Culture (2010).
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