Contributors
- Contributors
Anita Mannur (amannur@muohio.edu) is an Assistant Professor of English and Asian/Asian American Studies at Miami University, Ohio. She is the author of Culinary Fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture (Temple University Press, 2010).
Stella Bolaki (stellabol@yahoo.com) earned her PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where she teaches courses in English and American literature. She is also Co-Director of the Scottish Universities’ International Summer School, based in Edinburgh. Her research interests lie mainly in the fields of contemporary American literature, focusing on multi-ethnic fiction, gender theory, genre, and life writing. Essays have been published or are forthcoming on cultural translation, queer diasporas, narratives of community, trauma, disability, and artists’ books. Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, Bolaki is working on a cross-media interdisciplinary project titled “Poetics, Identity, and Witnessing in Contemporary Narratives of Illness and Disability.”
Gina Caison (gmcaison@ucdavis.edu) is a doctoral student in the Departments of English and Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis, where she teaches courses on Native American literatures. Her research focuses on literatures of the US South and Native America, and her dissertation explores the issues of racial ontology and performance in the US Southeast as they pertain to Native identity.
Joanna Penn Cooper (jpcooper7@gmail.com) is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Fordham University. Her teaching and research focus on the body as a site of ideological struggle. Cooper’s current project is a study of the poetics of the American body, specifically examining how multiethnic American poetry has “written back” to Whitman. She is also a poet; her recently completed full-length collection is tentatively titled How We Were Strangers. [End Page 226]
Amy E. Dayton-Wood (adayton@bama.ua.edu) is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alabama, where she coordinates the graduate program in composition-rhetoric and serves as a faculty-in-residence for the University Honors College. She teaches undergraduate writing and graduate seminars in composition pedagogy and theory. Her research focuses on Progressive-Era immigrant literacy as well as more contemporary explorations of the relationships between multilingualism, the teaching of English, and public conceptions of language. Dayton-Wood is working on a project that examines the role of literacy in early nineteenth-century US settlement houses.
E. Lâle Demirtürk (dturk@bilkent.edu.tr) is an Associate Professor of American Literature in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, where she teaches African American and American novel classes. She has published articles in such journals as Walt Whitman Review, American Studies International, Mississippi Quarterly, College Literature, MELUS, Southern Literary Journal, CLA Journal, and a/b: Auto/Biographical Studies. Her first book, The Modern African American Novel (1997), was published in Turkish. Her second book, How Black Writers Deal with Whiteness: Characterization Through Deconstructing Color (2008), was published by Edwin Mellen Press. Her current research focuses on the constructions of whiteness in African American novels.
Emily Donaldson Field (edfield@bu.edu) is a doctoral candidate at Boston University, where she teaches courses on modernism, African American literature, and multi-ethnic American literature. Her dissertation explores cross-ethnic literary conversations and collaborations in nineteenth-century fiction and autobiography. Field presented an earlier version of her essay on Equiano and Native Americans at the South Central MLA conference (2008). She published “How Dangerous Can a Book Be? Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” in Great Books for High School Kids: A Teachers’ Guide to Books That Can Change Teens’ Lives (Beacon Press, 2004). [End Page 227]
Jason Frydman (jfrydman@brooklyn.cuny.edu) is an Assistant Professor of English at Brooklyn College, where he teaches courses on race, ethnicity, and the literature of the Americas. He has published articles on Latina/o, Caribbean, and African diaspora literatures. His current project surveys how writers of the African diaspora have revised the category of world literature.
Paul Lai (plai2@stthomas.edu) teaches Asian American literature at the University of Saint Thomas. His research projects focus on the sounds of Asian American cultural productions and on Native-Asian American...
