Contributors
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Robert J. Ball received his PhD from Columbia University. He is professor of classics and chair of the Department of Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas at the University of Hawaii. He received the Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching from the University of Hawaii and an Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Philological Association, the national organization in classics. He has published five books: Tibullus the Elegist: A Critical Survey, The Classical Papers of Gilbert Highet, The Unpublished Lectures of Gilbert Highet, Reading Classical Latin: A Reasonable Approach, and Reading Classical Latin: The Second Year.
Darcy L. Brandel is an assistant professor of English at Marygrove College in Detroit, Michigan, where she also chairs the development of the first Women's Center on campus. Her teaching specializations include literature by women, multi-ethnic literature, gender studies, and critical theory. She has published work on Gertrude Stein and other experimental women writers, and she is currently working on a manuscript that discusses the ambiguous language of violation in Arielle Greenberg's poetry.
Dominique Brégent-Heald is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and has published articles on film and the North American borders in American Review of Canadian Studies, Journal of American Culture, Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, and Western Historical Quarterly. She is currently completing a book, Reel Borders: Representations of the Mexican and Canadian Borders in Film, 1908–1919. [End Page 177]
Lani Cupchoy is a University of California at Irvine doctoral candidate in history, having earned both her BA (UCLA) and MA (CSU-Los Angeles) in history. A UC-Irvine FMP fellow, California State University Chancellor's fellow, and PAGE fellow, Lani teaches in UCI's Humanities Out There, an educational partnership program between the School of Humanities and Orange Unified School District. In 2008 her editorial "Bypass Road Threatens Hawaii's Warrior Heritage" appeared in the Hawaii Island Journal, which helped preserve a sacred site threatened by commercial development. Her dissertation focuses on identity and community among Hawaiians in Los Angeles.
Rebecca Gould is a PhD candidate in the Department of Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. She is finishing her dissertation on "The Political Ontology of the Medieval Persian Prison Poem, 1100–1250." Her translation from Georgian of the short stories of Alexander Qazbegi is forthcoming from Syracuse University Press, Middle Eastern Literatures in Translation series, as Memoirs of a Shepherd. Her work on Georgian and other literatures of the Caucasus has appeared in Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History and Metamorphoses: Journal of the Five-College Seminar on Literary Translation.
Barb Matz is a freelance artist and a middle school art teacher who instructs students in drawing, painting, mixed media, and clay. She is a founding member of the nonprofit Riverwalk Arts Quarter in Northfield, Minnesota, the mission of which is to promote local artists. Currently she is working on a mixed media series about the Deep South.
Lorna Milne is a freelance writer and adjunct professor of English living on a small farm with her husband, Jonathan. In addition to raising a market garden and floating rivers, their primary pleasure comes in the form of visits from their five children and grandson, Jack. Currently Milne is writing a biography for young adults about Evelyn Cameron, the gifted English photographer and writer who documented life in eastern Montana a hundred years ago.
Abigail L. Palko received her PhD in literature, with a graduate minor in gender studies, from the University of Notre Dame in May 2010. Her research focuses on twentieth-century women's novels of the Atlantic Triangle, and she has published a study of Maeve Brennan's short stories in New Hibernia Review. She is currently revising her dissertation, "Motherhood, Declined: Negotiating Maternal Subjectivities in Irish and Caribbean novels, 1934–2007," for publication. [End Page 178]
