Contributors
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Steven Belletto is an assistant professor of English at Lafayette College. He has published essays on American literature and culture in such journals as ELH, Criticism, Clio, and American Studies. He is currently writing a book that investigates the place of chance in Cold War narrative, and serves as book review editor for American literature at Contemporary Literature.
Gwen Bergner is an associate professor of English at West Virginia University. She is the author of Taboo Subjects: Race, Sex, and Psychoanalysis (Minnesota, 2005) and has published essays on postcolonial theory and African American literature. An essay on media representations of Afghan women and the U.S. invasion of 2001 is forthcoming; she is currently working on Haitian-American transnationality.
Rachel Ida Buff, editor of Immigrant Rights in the Shadow of Citizenship (New York University Press, 2008), teaches history and comparative ethnic studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She is working on a book on historical and contemporary deportations.
Dennis Childs is an assistant professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. His current book manuscript offers a cultural history of racialized incarceration in the U.S. from the late nineteenth century through the late 1970s. He is the author of "Angola, Convict Leasing, and the Annulment of Freedom," which appears in Violence and the Body (Indiana University Press, 2003). His research and teaching areas include African American literature and blues culture, prison studies, and social theory.
Gregory P. Downs is an assistant professor of history at The City College of New York, where he also teaches creative writing. He is completing a book on the role of dependence in American politics and has published a book of [End Page 423] short fiction, Spit Baths (2006), which won the Flannery O'Connor Award. His article on the transatlantic roots of 1890s southern white supremacy will appear in the May 2009 Journal of Southern History.
Shari M. Huhndorf is an associate professor of English and ethnic studies at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination (Cornell University Press, 2001) and the forthcoming Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture (Cornell University Press, 2009). Her current work focuses on indigeneity and the politics of space.
Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, a performance studies scholar and artist, is an associate professor at the University of Washington, Bothell, where she teaches on a range of topics, including performance and healing, transnational performance forms, and disability issues. She also writes on performance and disability, creativity, cross-cultural performance, and art as research. Her current book projects include work on dance and architecture and on performing blackness. She is coeditor of Theatre Topics.
Tiya Miles is an associate professor in the Program in American Culture, the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of History, and the Native American Studies Program at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (2005) and the co-editor, with Sharon P. Holland, of Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: the African Diaspora in Indian Country (2006). Her forthcoming book is a history of the Cherokee-owned Diamond Hill plantation.
Colleen C. O'Brien is an assistant professor in the department of Language, Literature, and Composition at the University of South Carolina-Upstate. Her current research explores literary and political representations of the Haitian Revolution in the United States throughout the nineteenth century. [End Page 424]
Beryl Satter is an associate professor of history and chair of the history department at Rutgers University in Newark. She is the author of Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America (Metropolitan Books, 2009). [End Page 425]
