Contributors
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Sally Wolff is Assistant Vice President at Emory University. In addition to her work in the administration, she teaches Southern Literature in the Department of English at Emory. She is the author of Talking About William Faulkner (1996) and the co-editor of Southern Mothers: Fact and Fiction in Southern Women’s Writing (1999), both published by LSU Press. She has also authored articles about Southern writers, especially William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, and she published three interviews with Welty during their eighteen-year friendship. Her new book on William Faulkner is forthcoming from LSU Press in June, 2010.
Sara Gerend is Assistant Professor of English at Aurora University. She teaches courses in British and American literature, interdisciplinary studies, and composition. Her research interests include early twentieth-century British and American literature, modernism, and gender studies. She has published essays on Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, and Edna O’Brien.
Jeffrey Stayton is Instructor of English at The University of Mississippi. His work has been published in Global South and Mississippi Quarterly. He has recently completed a book-length work for publication: “Mammy Dearest: Abusive Jemimas, Plantation Viceroys and Holy Fools on the Yoknapatawphan Color Line.”
Jeffrey Folks has taught in Europe, America, and Japan, most recently as Professor of Letters in the Graduate School of Doshisha University, one of Japan’s leading private universities. He has published numerous books and articles on American literature including From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison: Ethics in Modern & Postmodern American Narrative (2001), In a Time of Disorder: Form and Meaning in Southern Fiction from Poe to O’Connor (2003), and Damaged Lives: Southern and Caribbean Narrative from Faulkner to Naipaul (2005). His articles on American literature and culture have appeared in many journals, including Modern Age, The Southern Literary Journal, and Papers on Language and Literature. [End Page 149]
Tanya Y. Kam is Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where she specializes in teaching Multicultural Literature and Women in Literature. She has published essays and reviews on life writing and Brazilian-Japanese immigration in a/b: Auto/biography Studies, ellipsis: the Journal of American Portuguese Studies Association, and Asian Wisconzine. She is currently researching the use of technology and “citizen journalism” in instances of national crisis, particularly the tragedy that took place at Virginia Tech in 2007.
As a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Oregon, Kelly Sultzbach is currently working on a book project titled Environmental Modernism. She has previously published “The Fertile Potential of Virginia Woolf ’s Environmental Ethic” in Woolf and the Art of Exploration: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth International Conference on Virginia Woolf. In January 2010 “The Contrary Natures of Christina Rossetti’s Poetic Fruits” will appear in the UK journal, Green Letters.
Uzzie T. Cannon is Assistant Professor of English at Johnson & Wales University, Charlotte, where she teaches American, African American, and multiethnic literatures. She has forthcoming publications on Percival Everett and John A. Williams. Continuing her research on African American male writers, she is at work on a book that examines the intersections of form, race, and gender in contemporary African American male fiction.
Scott Romine is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of The Narrative Forms of Southern Community (LSU 1999) and The Real South (LSU 2008). He is currently working on a project on Reconstruction narratives.
Barbara Ladd is Professor of English at Emory University. She is also the author of Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner (LSU 1996) and Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty (LSU 2007), as well as numerous essays and articles.
Lovalerie King is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Africana Research Center at Penn State University. She is the author or co-editor of James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays (2006); Race, Theft, and Ethics: Property Matters in African American Literature (2007); The Cambridge Introduction to Zora Neale Hurston (2008); New Essays on the African American Novel (2008); and African American Culture and Legal Discourse (2009). [End Page 150]
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