Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture

Contributors

Contributors VALERIE BABB is professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Georgia and the editor of the Langston Hughes Review. Her published works include Whiteness Visible: The Meaning of Whiteness in American Literature and Culture (1998), Black Georgetown Remembered , which has just entered its second printing (1991), Ernest Gaines (1991), and numerous articles. PATRICK BIZZARO is editor of Dream Garden: The Poetic Vision of Fred Chappell (LSU 1997). His books of poetry include Fear of the Coming Drought (Mount Olive College Press 2001), the forthcoming Every Insomniac Has a Story to Tell, and six chapbooks. His pedagogical work includes Responding to Student Poems: Applications of Critical Theory (NCTE 1993). A professor of English at East Carolina University, he teaches creative writing and literature and currently serves as Director of University Writing Programs. He is a University of North Carolina Board of Governor’s Distinguished Professor for Teaching and for his poetry has won NYQ’s Madeline Sadin Award and Four Quarters’ Poetry Prize. RESA CRANE BIZZARO (Meherrin/Cherokee) is the president of the CCCC Caucus for American Indian Scholars and Scholarship. Her research interests include Native American and Identity rhetorics, Native American Literature, and contemporary creative writing. Her most recent publications focus on the history of postsecondary education provided for Native Americans in this country. She also publishes essays on contemporary American writers. A fixed-term faculty member in the English Department at East Carolina University, she co-directs the Writers Reading Series of Eastern North Carolina and directs the Professional Writing Program at the Brody School of Medicine. JAMI L. CARLACIO teaches writing in the English department at Cornell University. She has published work on antebellum Anglo- and African 287 288 Contributors American women’s rhetorics in Rhetoric Review and in Rhetorical Democracy : Discursive Practices of Civic Engagement (2004) and on African American women’s autobiography (forthcoming). She has also published essays on ethical citizenship and on the rhetoric of democracy and is currently writing a book on women’s rhetorical practices during the 1830s. AMANDA ESPINOSA-AGUILAR, an assistant professor of English at Washington State University, teaches classes in rhetorical theory, composition , and ethnic American literature. Her publications include “Linking Assignment Design to Paper Grading in Classes About Diversity ,” in Contested Terrain (2001) and “Analyzing the Rhetoric of the English Only Movement,” in Language Ideologies: Critical Perspectives on the Official English Movement (2001). In 1999 Professor Espinosa-Aguilar was elected to the Executive Committee of the Conference on College Composition and Communication and served as the co-chair of the Scholars for the Dream Award Committee in 2002. ANN E. GREEN is an associate professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she regularly teaches service-learning courses such as Writing through Race, Class, and Gender , and Literacy as a Social Practice. She has published in College Composition and Communication, Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy, and Writing on the Edge. DAVID G. HOLMES, associate professor of English and Director of English Composition at Pepperdine University, is a former secondary school teacher whose articles have appeared in the Journal of Teaching Writing and in Race, Rhetoric and Composition, edited by Keith Gilyard. He has also authored Revisiting Racialized Voice: African American Ethos in Language and Literature (2004). His current research projects include civil rights rhetoric and the racialized aesthetics and rhetoric of Carl Van Vechten’s writings. SUSAN APPLEGATE KROUSE (Oklahoma Cherokee) is assistant professor of Anthropology at Michigan State University, where she is also on the faculty of the American Indian Studies Program. Her research focuses on urban American Indian communities, particularly on women’s leadership. Recent publications include, “What Came Out of the Takeovers : Women’s Activism and the Indian Community School of Milwaukee ” (American Indian Quarterly 2004) and “Kinship and Identity: Mixed Bloods in Urban Indian Communities” (American Indian Culture and Research Journal 1999). 289 Contributors VALERIE LEE is professor of English and Women’s Studies. She is the author of numerous articles on feminist theory, African American Literature , folklore, and multiculturalism. Among her books are Granny Midwives and Black Women Writers: Double-Dutched Readings (1996) and The Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Women Writers (forthcoming ). Professor Lee teaches such courses as Critical Race Feminisms, Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Theorizing Gender Representations , Women Writing the Civil Rights Movement, and The Oral Tradition and African American Narratives...