Contributors
- Contributors
Carol Bailey (cbailey@westfield.ma.edu) is an associate professor in the English Department at Westfield State University in Massachusetts, where she teaches courses in world, postcolonial, Caribbean, cross-cultural, and women's literatures. She is the author of A Poetics of Performance: The Oral-Scribal Aesthetic in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction (U of the West Indies P, 2014).
Mary Chapman (mary.chapman@ubc.ca) is professor of English at the University of British Columbia. Her new book, Becoming Sui Sin Far: The Early Fiction, Journalism and Travel Writing of Edith Eaton (McGill-Queen's UP, 2016), collects nearly seventy newly discovered works of fiction and journalism by the first Asian American fiction writer. Her Making Noise, Making News: Suffrage Print Culture and U.S. Modernism (Oxford UP, 2014) won the Society for the Study of American Women Writers' Book Prize and the Canadian Association of American Studies' Robert K. Martin Book Prize.
Joseph Darda (j.darda@tcu.edu) is an assistant professor of English at Texas Christian University, where he is a core member of the Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies Program and an affiliate member of the Women and Gender Studies Program. His articles have appeared in such journals as American Quarterly, American Literature, Contemporary Literature, African American Review, and Criticism. He is currently working on a book project, Empire of Defense: Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War, which traces a cultural history of national defense and racialization—through state documents, novels, films, memorials, and news media—from the formation of the national security state in the late 1940s to the counter-terror wars of the twenty-first century.
Melissa Dennihy (mdennihy@qcc.cuny.edu) is assistant professor of English at Queensborough Community College, City University of New York (CUNY). Her research interests include contemporary multi-ethnic US literatures, the intersections of literature and linguistics, and community college pedagogy. Dennihy's work has been published or is forthcoming in MELUS, Southern Studies, Pedagogy, and Teaching English in the Two-Year College, as well as numerous essay collections. She is also a regular contributor to Inside Higher Ed.
Colleen Gleeson Eils (colleen.eils@gmail.com) teaches at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, as a visiting assistant professor. She earned her PhD in English with a portfolio in Mexican American Studies from the University of Texas at [End Page 216] Austin in spring 2015. Her research, which has appeared in Studies in American Indian Literatures and American Indian Quarterly, focuses on contemporary ethnic and indigenous fiction, experimental literature, privacy and surveillance, and the politics of literary form.
Helena Grice (hhg@aber.ac.uk) is a reader in American literature at Aberystwyth University in Wales, UK, where she teaches courses on ethnic American literature, children's fiction, and life writing. She is currently working on a book-length biography of Anna Chan Chennault. Her research interests include ethnic American literatures, women's writing, auto/biography, and feminist theory. She is on the editorial boards of Textual Practice and Minerva: Women and War. She is coeditor, with Tim Woods, of the Edinburgh University Press American Studies series, "Representing American Events." She is the author of four books on Asian American literature, most recently Asian American Fiction, History and Life Writing (Routledge, 2009).
Anita Huizar-Hern andez (ahuizarh@email.arizona.edu) is an assistant professor of Border Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona. Her research examines how narratives, both real and imagined, have shaped the political, economic, and cultural landscape of the southwestern borderlands, with an emphasis on Arizona. Her work has appeared in Aztl an: A Journal of Chicano Studies and is forthcoming in SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures. She holds a PhD in literature (cultural studies) from the University of California, San Diego.
Benjamin Johnson (bgjohnson@ucmo.edu) is an associate professor of English at the University of Central Missouri. He is the coeditor of Beatrice Hastings: On the Life and Work of a Lost Modern Master (Pleiades/Gulf Coast, 2016) and has published articles on modern literature in venues including Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Arizona Quarterly, and The Wallace Stevens Journal.
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