Contributors
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Julia Balén recently moved to the new campus of California State University, Channel Islands, from the University of Arizona, where she served as associate director of Women's Studies. She earned her PhD in comparative cultural and literary studies with a focus on embodiment and power relations and has published many articles on topics ranging from feminist humor to activism and pedagogy. Among other projects, she is currently editing a collection of essays on the central project of Monique Wittig's work, Annulling Gender, completing a book on feminist process called Roberta's Rules, and completing a study of the Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transvestite (LGBT) choral movement.
Virginia L. Blum is professor of English and director of the Committee on Social Theory at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of Hide and Seek: The Child between Psychoanalysis and Fiction and Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery. She specializes in feminist theory, psychoanalytic theory, and popular culture.
Victoria Carty is an assistant professor of sociology at Niagara University. She has published on topics such as the gendered nature of production and consumption, social movements in the garment industry across the global North and South, and the role of the Internet in fostering social change. She is currently doing research on the role of faith-based groups in labor struggles in Panama.
James Conlon is a professor of philosophy at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is particularly interested in the treatment of philosophical issues in contemporary film and has published on this theme in the Journal of Popular Film and Television, The Journal of Aesthetic Education, and Post Script.
Allison Cummings is an associate professor of English at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, New Hampshire, where she teaches [End Page 237] American literature, creative writing, contemporary poetry, gender studies, and composition. She has published essays on contemporary American women's poetry in the essay collections After New Formalism: Poets on Form, Narrative, and Tradition and New Definitions of Lyric: Theory, Technology, and Culture. In 1999, she organized a conference at Barnard College, "Where the Lyric Tradition Meets Language Poetry," with Claudia Rankine. She is the editor of the literary journal Amoskeag and is currently revising a poetry manuscript.
Angela Hague is professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, where she teaches courses in modern literature, mythology, and popular culture. The author of Iris Murdoch's Comic Vision and Fiction, Intuition, and Creativity: Studies in Brontë, James, Woolf, and Lessing, she is also the coeditor of Deny All Knowledge: Reading the X-Files and Teleparody: Predicting /Preventing the TV Discourse of the Future. She is working on a book about the abduction narrative.
Kimberly Jensen received her PhD in women's history and United States history from the University of Iowa in 1992. She is currently a professor in the department of history and the gender studies program at Western Oregon University. She has published several articles and chapters on women in the First World War and is the author of a forthcoming book on American women, citizenship, and violence in that war.
Janet Mccann is professor of English at Texas A&M University, where she has taught since 1969. She received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1989. Her most recent book is a creative writing text, In A Field of Words, coauthored with Sybil Estess (Prentice Hall, 2003). Her poems have appeared in America, Christian Century, Poetry Australia, Nimrod, and elsewhere. Her new chapbook, Emily's Dress, was published by Pecan Grove Press (2004).
Lisa Richards is a Melbourne-based, London-born international citizen with family in New Mexico. She graduated in history of art at Manchester University, United Kingdom, in 1994 and has worked as an arts manager for several London-based organizations. In 2001, she migrated to Melbourne and has been gallery manager for Christine Abrahams Gallery for the past three years. She served on the board of management for the Contemporary Sculptor's Association, Melbourne. Her next project will be a master of visual culture degree, primarily researching international artists' workshops.
Jenna Rindo received her bachelor of science in nursing from the Medical College of Virginia in...
