About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Carrie N. Baker is an associate professor in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College. She teaches and writes on law, public policy, and social movements. Her book, The Women’s Movement Against Sexual Harassment (Cambridge, 2008), is an intersectional history of feminist activism against sexual harassment.
Shanna Greene Benjamin, assistant professor of English at Grinnell College, has published on African American literature and black women’s literary history in MELUS, African American Review, Studies in American Fiction, and PMLA . She is currently working on a biography of Norton Anthology of African American Literature co-editor, Nellie Y. McKay.
Crystal DeBoise, LMSW, is a Managing Director of the Sex Workers Project of the Urban Justice Center. She founded the Human Trafficking Services Program at the New York Association for New Americans in 2002, one of the first and longest-running human trafficking programs in the nation. Prior to that, she provided counseling services to victims of violence in a substance abuse clinic in the Bronx and worked for several years with survivors of domestic violence. She works with clients and systems eclectically, using human rights and harm-reduction approaches that respect the rights of all people to therapeutic care.
Rachel Elizabeth Harding is a native of Georgia, a poet and historian specializing in religions of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora. She is author of A Refuge in Thunder and numerous poems and essays. She teaches in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Colorado, Denver.
Ayesha K. Hardison is an associate professor in the Department of English at Ohio University. Her scholarly work focuses on race, gender, and sexuality in twentieth- and twenty-first-century African American literature and culture. Her monograph Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature (University Press of Virginia 2014) examines representations of black women in the 1940s and 1950s, and her essay on Zora Neale Hurston is forthcoming in African American Review.
Ranjoo Seodu Herr is an associate professor of philosophy at Bentley University, Waltham, MA. Herr has published on topics such as democracy, multiculturalism, nationalism, Third World feminism, and [End Page 234] Confucianism. She is currently working on a book-length manuscript entitled Nonliberal Democracy and Equal Respect for Democratic Peoples.
Julietta Hua is an associate professor of women and gender studies at San Francisco State University. She is author of Trafficking Women’s Human Rights and other articles on human rights and feminist politics. She teaches courses on immigration, citizenship, and law.
Erica L. Johnson is an associate professor and chair of English at Pace University in New York City. She is the author of Caribbean Ghostwriting (2009) and Home, Maison, Casa: The Politics of Location in Works by Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Erminia Dell’Oro (2003) and, most recently, the co-editor with Patricia Moran of The Female Face of Shame (2013).
Itoro Udofia is a first-generation Nigerian writer, educator, and musician based in the Bay area. She received her undergraduate degree from Smith College in African American studies and theater, and her master’s degree in teaching with a social-justice concentration. Some of her other writings have appeared in YourWorldNews, A Radical Profeminist and Rain and Thunder Feminist Journal. Currently, she works as a community organizer focusing on providing quality education programs to historically marginalized populations in the Oakland community.
Sam Vásquez is an associate professor of English at Dartmouth College. Her research focuses on Caribbean and other African diasporic literatures. She is the author of Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). She is also a published poet, and her critical work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Caribbean Quarterly, Journal of West Indian Literature, Meridians, and Small Axe. [End Page 235]
