Contributors' Notes
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Henry Abelove teaches at Wesleyan University. He co-edited The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader and is the author of Deep Gossip. He is working on a new book on colonialism and philosophy.
Shana Agid is a visual artist and writer with interests in the post-Civil Rights Era U.S. His writing has been in FLOW, Clamor Magazine, and Through the Eye of Katrina: Social Justice in the United States. She works at Parsons and is a member of the Radical Teacher board.
Paula Austin was an adult literacy teacher for more than a decade in New York City and Durham, North Carolina. Currently, she is adjunct faculty with CUNY and the New School in American History, Religion, and Developmental Skills and is a doctoral student at the City University of New York Graduate Center in History, with an interest in African American education and religious practices in the 19th and 20th century.
William Ayers is Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has written or edited 16 books including Teaching Toward Freedom (Beacon), Fugitive [End Page 40] Days: A Memoir (Beacon), and Race Course: Against White Supremacy (Third World Press). He blogs at billayers.org
Gregg Bordowitz is a writer and film/video maker. His works have been widely shown in festivals, museums, movie theaters and broadcast internationally. A collection of his essays, titled The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings 1986-2003, was published by MIT Press (2004). Bordowitz is a member of the faculty of the Film, Video and New Media Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Jackie Brady is Assistant Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College (CUNY) and is a member of the Radical Teacher editorial collective. Her current research focuses on the intersections among progressive pedagogy, writing, and social activism.
Linda Dittmar (now Emerita) taught literature, film, and gender studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston for many years. Winner of the Chancellor's teaching award, she taught a range of courses in modern and contemporary fiction and film history and theory, with a special focus on subaltern studies. In addition to many articles and book chapters she is editor of From Hanoi to Hollywood; The Vietnam War in American Film and Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism. She is a long-time member of Radical Teacher's editorial board.
Joseph Entin teaches English and American Studies at Brooklyn College and in the Liberal Studies Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. He joined the Radical Teacher editorial board in 1997 and is co-editor, with Robert Rosen and Leonard Vogt, of Controversies in the Classroom: A Radical Teacher Reader (2008). He's also the author of Sensational Modernism: Experimental Fiction and Photography in Thirties America(2007).
Barbara Foley teaches English at Rutgers University, Newark Campus. She writes about literary radicalism, African American literature, and Marxist theory. Her most recent book (forthcoming) is a study of the making of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. She is a member of the steering committee of the MLA Radical Caucus and a participant in the manuscript collective of Science and Society.
H.Bruce Franklin, activist and cultural historian, is the author or editor of nineteen books, most recently War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination. He is currently the John Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies at Rutgers University in Newark.
Gerald Graff teaches English and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is the author of Clueless in Academe and a writing textbook (with Cathy Birkenstein) They Say/I Say. His contribution to this forum draws on ideas in his essay in Radical Teacher 58, "Teaching Politically Without Political Correctness."
Geoffrey Jacques is the author of the forthcoming study, A Change in the Weather: Modernist Imagination, African American Imaginary (Univ. of Mass. Press), and, most recently, of Just For a Thrill (Wayne State Univ. Press), a book of poems. He teaches composition and writing at York College and at John Jay College of the City University of New York, and at New York University.
Katharine Johnson is a teacher and literacy coach in Portland, Oregon...
