Contributors
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Brett L. Abrams received his doctorate from the American University of Washington, D.C., in 2000. He has taught courses in the history of sexuality and the construction of romance in the United States. Topics of his guest lectures and national conference presentations range from the development of celebrity culture to the influence of methodology on determining what constitutes archival evidence. He is an archival specialist with the Electronic and Special Media Division of the National Archives and Records Administration.
Michelle K. Berry is a doctoral candidate at the University of Arizona, where she is writing a dissertation on "Cow Talk: Ecology, Culture and Identity In the Intermountain West Cattle Industry, 1945–1975." Her research addresses issues of labor, gender, race, and environment in the range cattle industry in Arizona, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Montana and examines the ways in which range cattle ranchers grounded their political power as a special interest group in a specific culture which was composed of gender, environmental, racial, and labor ideologies. In Fall 2004, she will take a position as visiting professor at Colorado College in Colorado Springs.
Shu-Ju Ada Cheng received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001. She is an assistant professor in sociology at DePaul University. Her areas of interest include international migration, globalization, work, and gender. Her recent publication, "Rethinking the Globalization of Domestic Service: Foreign Domestics, State Control, and the Politics of Identity in Taiwan," appears in the April 2003 issue of Gender & Society.
Jocelyn Cullity is a doctoral student in creative writing at Florida State University. She has recently published in The Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Communication Inquiry, The Voice of the Working Woman (Indian publication), Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, and Passionfruit. Going to the Sea, a television documentary made by Cullity and Prakash Younger about young [End Page 176] women in China, won the Lester B. Pearson Award for International Development at the REEL Women's Film Festival.
Donna J. Gelagotis Lee's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal, Bitter Oleander, Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Cortland Review, Crab Orchard Review, Feminist Studies, Midwest Quarterly, WIND, and other journals. Currently a resident of New Jersey, she lived in Greece for many years. She was a semifinalist for the 2003 "Discovery"/ The Nation, the Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize.
Kim Huỳnh recently submitted his PhD dissertation at the Australian National University, a political biography of his parents entitled "Mum, Dad & International Relations: A Short Story about Grand Theories and Ordinary People." This article complements and contrasts with an article published in 2003 named "Fathers, Flags and Modern Day Fanaticism: A Short Story about Cold War Grand Theories and an Ordinary Vietnamese-Australian." He is working on developing his thesis into a book and has a continuing research interest in personal-as-political narratives and everyday resistance in the context of international relations.
Heather Sealy Lineberry is senior curator at the Arizona State University Art Museum and has more than fifteen years of experience in curating contemporary art. She holds a master's degree in art history from the University of Texas at Austin. Lineberry has curated a broad range of exhibitions, among them Art on the Edge of Fashion, Jim Campbell—Transforming Time-Electronic Works, and Sites Around the City: Art and Environment (a citywide series of exhibitions and programs). Current exhibition projects include Blue Memory and The Long Day: Sculpture by Claudette Schreuders, which is traveling nationally.
Ruth Porritt's work has appeared in What Shall We Tell Each Other of the Poet? Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem, and Writing Poems, among others. She is an associate professor of philosophy and women's studies at West Chester University in Pennsylvania.
Laura M. Robinson is an assistant professor of English studies at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. She has published articles on L. M. Montgomery, on Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye, and on Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees. Her short fiction has appeared in Wascana Review and torquere. Her research interests include Canadian women writers, feminist theory, queer theory...
