Contributors
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Lily Cho
Lily Cho is an assistant professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. Her research focuses on diasporic subjectivity within the fields of cultural studies, postcolonial literature and theory, Asian American and Canadian literature, and the emerging field of diaspora studies. Her recent publications include: "'How taste remembers life': Diasporic Memory and Community in Fred Wah's Diamond Grill" in Culture, Identity, Commodity; "On Eating Chinese: Diasporic Agency and the Chinese Canadian Restaurant Menu" in Chinese Transnationalisms; and "Asian Canadian Futures: Indenture Routes and Diasporic Passages" in Essays on Canadian Writing 85 (2006).
Michelle D. Commander
Michelle D. Commander is a doctoral candidate in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at University of Southern California and managing editor of American Quarterly. She is co-author, with Wendy Cheng, of "Language Matters: Hurricane Katrina and Media Responsibility" in Hurricane Katrina: Response and Responsibilities (2005). Her dissertation centers on the role of Pan-Africanism in post-1965 migrations of African Americans to Brazil and Ghana.
Jennifer Doyle
Jennifer Doyle is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. Her book Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire (2006) is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for writing in arts & culture. She is coeditor, with Amelia Jones, of New Feminist Theories of Visual Culture, a special issue of the journal Signs (Spring 2006), and co-curator, with Raquel Gutierrez, of the exhibit Aqui No Hay Virgenes: Queer Latina Visibility (2007). She lives in Los Angeles, and is currently working on two projects, one on friendship, and another on the politics of emotion in contemporary art.
Betsy Erkkila
Betsy Erkkila is the Henry Sanborn Noyes Professor of Literature in the Department of English at Northwestern University, where she teaches courses in comparative American and Atlantic world cultures, American poetry, race [End Page 523] and gender studies, and cultural and political theory. Professor Erkkila is the author of Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses: Rethinking American Literature from the Revolution to the Culture Wars (2005); The Wicked Sisters: Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord (1992); Whitman the Political Poet (1989); and Walt Whitman Among the French: Poet and Myth (1980). She is currently working on a study of the literary, affective, and visionary politics of the American Revolution entitled Imagining the Revolution: Literature, Politics, and the Fight to Change the World.
Kale Bantigue Fajardo
Kale Bantigue Fajardo is an assistant professor in the Department of American Studies and the Asian American Studies program at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Fajardo is currently completing a book about contemporary Filipino seafarers in the global shipping industry, entitled, Filipino Cross Currents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities and Globalization.
J.V. Gatewood
J. V. Gatewood is a doctoral candidate in the American Civilization program at Brown University, where he is finishing his dissertation, a cultural history of the City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. With Min Zhou, he is coeditor of Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader (2007).
Heather Hendershot
Heather Hendershot is an associate professor of media studies at Queens College/City University of New York and coordinator of the Film Studies Certificate Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture (2004) and Saturday Morning Censors: Television Regulation before the V-Chip (1998). Hendershot is also the editor of Nickelodeon Nation: The History, Politics and Economics of America's Only TV Channel for Kids (2004). She is currently writing a book on Cold War right-wing broadcasting.
Scott Herring
Scott Herring is an assistant professor of English at Indiana University. His first book, Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History, is forthcoming. Currently, he is completing Another Country: Rural Stylistics and the Politics of Queer Anti-Urbanism. Portions of this second project have appeared, or will appear, in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, and American Studies. [End Page 524]
Tavia Nyong'o
Tavia Nyong'o is an assistant professor of Performance Studies at New York University. He has published articles and reviews in Social Text, Women and Performance, Yale Journal of Criticism, TDR...
