Contributors
- Contributors
S. R. Anderson (sander@ucdavis.edu) is currently completing a project about the rhetoric of secularization in contemporary American literature, particularly as it surfaces within the realm of magical realism.
Jean-Paul Bourdier (jpbourdier@berkeley.edu) is Professor of Design, Drawing, and Photography at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Leap into the Blue (Channel Photographics, 2013) and Bodyscapes (Earth Aware, 2007) and coauthor with Trinh T. Minh-ha of Vernacular Architecture of West Africa: A World in Dwelling (Routledge, 2011), African Spaces: Designs for Living in Upper Volta (Africana, 1985), and Drawn from African Dwellings (Indiana University Press, 1996). His paintings and photographs of ephemeral sculptures and land art are widely exhibited nationally, winning over fifteen national and international competitions.
Chiyo Crawford (chiyo.crawford@gmail.com) is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She received her PhD in English at Tufts University. Her teaching and research interests include US multi-ethnic and environmental literatures, feminist and anti-racist ecocriticism, and environmental justice. At present, she is working on a book that examines environmental justice case studies in twentieth-century American literature.
Martha J. Cutter (martha.cutter@uconn.edu) is a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut and the Editor-in-Chief of MELUS. Her first book, Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women’s Writing, 1850-1930 (University Press of Mississippi, 1999) won the Nancy Dasher Award from the College English Association for the best book of literary criticism published between 1999 and 2001. Her second book, Lost and Found in Translation, was published in 2005 by the University of North Carolina Press. Her articles have appeared in American Literature, African American Review, MELUS, Callaloo, Women’s Studies, Legacy, Criticism, Arizona Quarterly, and in several essay collections.
Joseph Darda (joseph.darda@uconn.edu) is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Connecticut. He is the Managing Editor of LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory. His work appears in College Literature and is forthcoming in American Literary Realism, American Quarterly, and minnesota review. He is also the Guest Editor of a forthcoming special issue of LIT on literature and American exceptionalism.
Joseph Fruscione (josephk@email.gwu.edu) is Adjunct Assistant Professor of First-Year Writing at George Washington University, where he has taught since 1999. He has also taught in the English departments at Georgetown University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. In 2012, he published Faulkner and Hemingway: Biography of a Literary Rivalry (Ohio State University Press), as well as an essay on Ralph Ellison and Ernest Hemingway for the collection Hemingway and the Black Renaissance (Ohio State University [End Page 185] Press), edited by Gary Edward Holcomb and Charles Scruggs. He is currently working on his second book, tentatively titled Adapting Modernism, which will examine transmedia treatments of Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, T. S. Eliot, and others.
Margaret Hillenbrand (margaret.hillenbrand@chinese.ox.ac.uk) is University Lecturer in Modern Chinese Literature at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Literature, Modernity, and the Practice of Resistance: Japanese and Taiwanese Fiction, 1960-1990 (Brill, 2007) and the Guest Editor of special issues of Postcolonial Studies and the Journal of Chinese Cinemas. She has published articles in Screen, Postcolonial Studies, Cinema Journal, The Journal of Asian Studies, The Journal of Japanese Studies, and positions.
Hsuan L. Hsu (hlhsu@ucdavis.edu) is an Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis and the author of Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2010). He is currently completing a book manuscript titled Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain and America’s Asia.
Kristian Jensen (kejensen@nmsu.edu) is Visiting Assistant Professor at New Mexico State University, where he teaches American Indian literature and nineteenth-century American literature. In his dissertation, “The Birth of Literary Ethnography: Struggles with Anthropology in Antebellum America,” Jensen identifies the beginnings of a literary genre including fiction and non-fiction by Herman Melville, John Rollin Ridge (Yellow Bird), Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglass, among others, that incorporates the use of anthropologist-narrators and characters, as well as satire or appropriation of the...
