Contributors
- Contributors
Sarah Blackwood (sblackwood@pace.edu) is an assistant professor of English and director of the American Studies Program at Pace University. She is currently completing two book manuscripts: a monograph titled The Portrait’s Subject: Picturing Inner Life in Nineteenth-Century America and a collection of primary texts titled “A More Perfect Likeness”: Nineteenth-Century African Americans Write Visual Culture that she is co-editing with fellow contributor Janet Neary.
Alexis L. Boylan (alexis.boylan@uconn.edu), who holds a joint appointment as assistant professor in the art and art history department and the women’s, gender, and sexuality studies program at the University of Connecticut, recently edited Thomas Kinkade: The Artist in the Mall (Duke University Press, 2011). Boylan has published in Rethinking Marxism, Prospects, and Woman’s Art Journal and has contributed essays to several museum exhibition catalogues. She is completing her new book, Man on the Street: Masculinity, Modernity, and Ashcan Art, a study that examines the Ashcan circle of artists and their visual commentaries on gender and modernism.
Soyica Colbert (sdc71@georgetown.edu) is an associate professor of African American studies and theater and performance studies at Georgetown University and the author of The African American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance, and the Stage (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Colbert is currently working on a second book project titled Black Movements: Performance, Politics, and Migration. She has published articles and reviews in African American Review, Theatre Journal, boundary 2, South Atlantic Quarterly, and Theatre Topics.
Eurie Dahn (dahne@strose.edu) is an assistant professor of English at the College of Saint Rose. She has most recently published on the pre-book magazine publication history of Jean Toomer’s Cane (1923). Her current book project examines African American periodicals during the Jim Crow period.
Jean-Ulrick Désert (judesert@gmail.com) is a conceptual and visual artist born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Désert’s artworks vary in form and include public billboards, actions, paintings, site-specific sculptures, video, and objects. He is well known for his Negerhosen2000 (2001-07), his provocative The Burqa Project (2002), and his Goddess Project (2009-present) and has exhibited widely at such venues as the Brooklyn Museum, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Grey Art Gallery of New York University, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Walker Art Center, the Cité Internationale des Arts, the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, and in galleries and [End Page 256] public venues in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Ghent, and Brussels. He advises and teaches for Transart Institute and established his Berlin studio practice in 2002. For more artwork, see www.jeanulrickdesert.com.
Teresa A. Goddu (teresa.a.goddu@vanderbilt.edu) is an Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. A specialist in nineteenth-century American literature and culture, she is the author of Gothic America: Narrative, History, and Nation (Columbia University Press, 1997) and is currently completing a book project that investigates the relationship between anti-slavery media and the rise of mass culture in the antebellum era.
Matthew David Goodwin (matthewg@complit.umass.edu) is a lecturer in comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research and teaching interests center on migration as represented in multi-ethnic and world literature, with an emphasis on Latina/o studies. His current book project, Latina/o Science Fiction and the Future of Solidarity, explores US Latina/o science fiction and digital culture. Goodwin has been forming an initiative to transform Latina/o science fiction into an educational tool to advance the process of immigration reform.
Robb Hernández (robert.hernandez@ucr.edu) is an assistant professor in the department of English at the University of California, Riverside, where he teaches courses in Latina/o literature, visual culture, museum studies, and archive theory. He is the author of VIVA Records, 1970-2000: Lesbian and Gay Latino Artists of Los Angeles (2013) and The Fire of Life: The Robert Legorreta-Cyclona Collection (2009), both published by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press. He has received research fellowships and awards from the Getty Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Dartmouth College, the University of Texas, Austin, and the Cosmos Club Foundation.
Stacie McCormick (stacie.mccormick@gmail.com) received her...
