Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Susan Abraham is assistant professor of theological studies at Loyola Mary-mount University. She is the author of Identity, Ethics, and Nonviolence in Postcolonial Theory: A Rahnerian Theological Assessment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and coeditor of Shoulder to Shoulder: Frontiers in Catholic Feminist Theology (Fortress, 2009). Ongoing research projects include issues in religion and nationalism, feminist theology, theology and political theory, religion and postcolonial film, global Catholicism, and Christianity between colonialism and postcolonialism. Susan.Abraham@lmu.edu
Anya Achtenberg, award-winning author of Blue Earth (novel), The Stories of Devil-Girl (novella), and poetry books, The Stone of Language and I Know What the Small Girl Knew, is at work on another novel, History Artist, and a poetry collection, Matadors at the Crossing. Anya teaches creative writing workshops around the United States and online around the world and consults with writers individually. Director of Arts Focus on Cuba and promoter for Cuba’s Casa del Caribe, she organizes journeys to Cuba, including to the annual July Pan-Caribbean Festival of Fire. For information and articles about the craft of writing, see http://anyaachtenberg.com/
Tina Binder grew up in Augsburg and studied Protestant theology and feminist theology in Neuendettelsau and Leipzig. She worked as student assistant at the professorship Feminist Theology of Prof. Dr. Renate Jost at Augustana Divinity School of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Bavaria in Neuendettelsau. She is minister of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Bavaria and writing her dissertation on “Gender, Might, and Force in the First Testament” at Augustana Divinity School. tina.binder@elkb.de
Christina Cedillo is currently assistant professor at Northeastern State University in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, where she teaches courses in rhetorical theory, composition pedagogy, and creative writing. She earned her PhD in English from Texas A&M University with concentrations in rhetoric and composition, women’s studies, and medieval studies. Cedillo’s primary area of interest is the effects of embodiment in communication, particularly the reciprocal relationship between rhetorics of embodiment and embodied rhetorics. She is [End Page 173] currently revising her dissertation for publication as a monograph titled “Commonplace Divinity: The Rhetorics of Medieval Women Mystics.” cvcedillo@gmail.com
Jane Naomi Iwamura is chair and associate professor of religious studies at the University of the West. Her research focuses on Asian American religions, race, and popular culture in the United States (with an emphasis on visual culture). Her publications include Virtual Orientalism: Religion and Popular Culture in the U.S. (Oxford, 2011) and the coedited volume Revealing the Sacred in Asian and Pacific America (Routledge, 2003). She has also written on Japanese American lived religions, as well as the intersection of religion and Asian American literary production. Iwamura currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion and as an advisor to the Pacific Asian North American and Asian Women in Theology and Ministry (PANAAWTM). She also cofounded the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI)—a national scholarly network advancing the interdisciplinary study of Asian Pacific Americans and their religions. janei@uwest.edu
W. Anne Joh is associate professor of theology at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary and affiliate faculty in Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. Joh’s areas of research interests are at the intersection of critical theories on race, gender, trauma, affect, postcolonialism, and militarism in relation to transpacific Asian America. She is the author of Heart of the Cross: A Post-colonial Christology (Westminster John Knox Press, 2006) as well as chapters in edited volumes. Forthcoming are Terror, Trauma, and Loss: A Postcolonial Theology of Hope (Westminster John Knox Press) and a coedited volume, Critical Theology against U.S. Militarism in Asia: Decolonization and Deimperialism (Palgrave, 2015). anne.joh@garrett.edu
Mohja Kahf is the author of E-mails from Scheherazad (Contemporary Poetry Series, University Press of Florida, 2003) and the novel The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (Public Affairs, 2006). Born in Damascus, Syria, she is an immigrant to the United States and a professor of comparative literature and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Arkansas. damascenequeen@gmail.com
Grace Y. Kao is associate professor of ethics and codirector of the Center for Sexuality, Gender, and...
