Perspectives on Percival Everett

Contributors

159 Contributors U Z Z I E C A N N O N is an Assistant Professor of English at Georgia Gwinnett College where she teaches African American and American literatures. Her research focuses on the intersections of gender, race, and narrative form in contemporary black men’s fiction. She has published works in the African American Review and the Southern Literary Journal. Dr. Cannon is currently exploring the function of the personal journal in contemporary fiction. J O N AT H A N D I T T M A N is adjunct faculty in the Department of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. His research interests include African American literature and cultural identity, as well as Dante Aligheri’s Divine Commedia. He is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in creative writing at Goddard College and is working on a collection of short stories. R O N A L D D O R R I S holds the Alumni Class of 1958 Professorship in Liberal Arts in African American Studies and English at Xavier University of Louisiana. His research and teaching area is African, African American, and American cultural and intellectual history. He is the author of Race: Jean Toomer’s Swan Song. His scholarly works appear in The Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table, Proteus, McNeese Review, Perspectives of Black Popular Culture, Black Sacred Music, The Griot: Journal of African American Studies, and Sparks of Resistance, Flames of Change: Black Communities and Activism. F R É D É R I C D U M A S is an Assistant Professor of American literature at Stendhal University-Grenoble, France. He is the author of a book on Nelson Algren and has published articles on American literature in French, Serbian, Slovenian, Indian, and American scholarly publications. He has C O N T R I B U T O R S 160 published “Trout Fishing and Woodworking: Digression in Percival Everett ’s Erasure” (in Percival Everett: Transatlantic Readings, edited by Claire Maniez and Anne-Laure Tissut). S A R A H M A N T I L L A G R I F F I N received her B.A. with honors from Stanford University in 2004 and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. Her research and teaching interests include African American literature , literature and theory of the African diaspora, black feminist theory, sound theory, and world literature. Sarah’s dissertation, entitled “‘Hush Now Can You Hear It’: Black Women’s Sonic Literature,” contributes to recent critical discourses of American modernism and sonic modernity through an exploration of the various sounds of black women’s twentiethand twenty-first-century writing. K E I T H B . M I T C H E L L is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. He is the coeditor of After the Pain: Critical Essays on Gayl Jones and coeditor of the Xavier Review special issue “Reading the Intersections of Sex and Spirit in the Creative Arts.” Mitchell has published book chapters, articles, and reviews in Obsidian III: Literature in the African Disapora, The Oxford Companion to African American Literature, Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary, The Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature, Oyster Boy Review, and other publications. Forthcoming projects include a monograph on the fiction of Percival Everett and a book-length study of the intersections of the African American and the Jewish Diasporas in contemporary Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean literature. R I C H A R D S C H U R is an Associate Professor of English and the director of the Law and Society Program at Drury University. He is the author of Parodies of Ownership: Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law and coeditor of African American Culture and Legal Discourse. His research focuses on African American culture, popular music, and law. A N T H O N Y S T E W A R T is a Professor in the English department at Dalhousie University. His main research interest is in twentieth- and twenty- first-century African American literature and culture, and he also teaches twentieth-century British literature. He is the author of George Orwell, C O N T R I B U T O R S 161 Doubleness, and the Value of Decency and You Must Be a Basketball Player: Rethinking Integration in the University. His current...