Cultural Sites of Critical Insight: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and African American and Native American Women's Writings

Contributors

Contributors Christa Davis Acampora is an associate professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the coeditor of A Nietzschean Bestiary: Becoming Animal Beyond Docile and Brutal and a coeditor with Angela Cotten of Unmaking Race/Remaking Soul: Transformative Aesthetics and the Practice of Freedom, forthcoming from SUNY Press. Michael A. Antonucci teaches in the English Department of Marquette University. His research interests include African American literature, Black music, and American poetics. He coedited with Garin Cycholl Make Up on an Empty Space, an introduction and anthology of American poetry. Michael is also a founding member of the collaborative writing collective, Jimmy Wynn Ensemble, in Chicago. Ellen L. Arnold is an associate professor of American literature in the English Department at East Carolina State University, where she teaches courses in Native American literature, ethnic studies, and women’s studies . She has published numerous articles on Leslie Marmon Silko, Linda Hogan, and Carter Revard, and also has edited Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko. Angela L. Cotten is an assistant professor of women’s studies at Stony Brook University. Her areas of research and teaching are political economy , race, and gender, as well as philosophy, aesthetics, and culture. She has coedited an anthology with Christa Acampora, Unmaking Race/Remaking Soul: Transformative Aesthetics and the Practice of Freedom. Currently, she is completing a book, A Question of Freedom: Womanist Origins and Travels in the Works of Alice Walker, on the critical discourse of womanism in Alice Walker’s writings. 207 AnaLouise Keating is an associate professor of women’s studies at Texas Woman’s University. Her books include Women Reading Women Writing : Self-Invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde; this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation (coedited with Anzaldúa); and EntreMundos/AmongWorlds: New Perspectives on Gloria E. Anzaldúa. AnaLouise is also the editor of Anzaldúa’s Interviews/Entrevistas and coeditor of Perspectives: Gender Studies. She has published articles on critical race theory, queer theory, Latina authors, African American women writers, and pedagogy. AnaLouise is currently working on several projects, including a collection drawing on her personal experiences as a bisexual, light-skinned, mixed-race queer to explore pedagogy, transformation, “whiteness,” and race. Noelle Morrissette is an adjunct assistant professor of English at Loyola University-Chicago, where she teaches courses in African American, African Caribbean, and American literature. Her research focuses on feminism and black identity, law and literature, and African American biography. She received her PhD in African American Studies and English literature from Yale University and is currently completing a literary biography of James Weldon Johnson, entitled Critical Fictions: The Prose Writings of James Weldon Johnson, 1901–1938. Margot R. Reynolds is an instructor of literary, cultural, and queer studies at the University of Central Florida. Her research traverses American studies, Native American studies, and gender/queer studies. Her current research treats Anita Loos’s “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” and its relationship to queer theory, and the presence of ecofeminist politics in national feminist organizations. Reynolds comes from a mixed Irish, English, Scottish, Quapaw, and Cherokee heritage. Maggie Romigh is an independent scholar of mixed cultural heritage (Scottish, Irish, French, English, and Cherokee), who works and lives in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in the village of Rociada , New Mexico. Her research spans several disciplinary concentrations , including anthropology, literature, and Southwestern Studies. Currently, she is focusing on the matrilineal culture of the Diné (Navajo) and its expression in literary and oral traditions. 208 CONTRIBUTORS Barbara S. Tracy is an instructor of women’s and Native American literature in the English Department at Southeast Community College in Lincoln, Nebraska. She is a doctoral candidate specializing in minority and mixed race literature at the University of Nebraska, and has authored The Melungeons: An Annotated Bibliography: References In Both Fiction and Nonfiction. Elizabeth J. West is an assistant professor of English at Georgia State University, where she conducts research and teaches with particular interest in the intersections of gender, race, class, and spirituality in literary works. She has published essays and reviews in MELUS, South Atlantic Review, South Central Review, Womanist, JCCH, and CLA, as well as entries in the Oxford Companion to African American Literature . Her current book project examines the evolution of African spirituality in black women’s writings and has been supported by a research fellowship from...