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  • Notes on Contributors

Daniel Bautista is an Assistant Professor of American Literature, with a specialization in Latino Literature, at Lehman College, CUNY. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Brown, and his B.A. from Columbia, all in Comparative Literature. He has also taught as a Lecturer in Harvard's History and Literature program.

Laura J. Beard is author of Acts of Narrative Resistance: Women's Autobiographical Writings in the Americas (University of Virginia Press, 2009) and is currently working on a book manuscript on autobiographical narratives about the Indian residential school experience in the United States and Canada. She teaches at Texas Tech University in the Department of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures.

Keith P. Feldman is Assistant Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of California–Berkeley.

David William Foster is Regents' Professor of Spanish and Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. His research focuses on Latin American urban culture, with specific emphasis on gender studies and Jewish disapora culture.

Gail K. Hart is Professor and Chair of German at the University of California–Irvine, where she also directs the campuswide Honors Program. She is a University of Virginia Ph.D, and she has also taught at Yale University and Reed College. She has written books on Gottfried Keller, Bourgeois Tragedy, and Friedrich Schiller's Poetics of Punishment.

Mari Hatavara is professor of Finnish literature at the University of Tampere. She specializes in the theory of the historical novel, especially from a narratological point of view. Her previous articles in English include "History, the Historical Novel and Nation: The First Finnish Historical Novels as National Narrative," in Neophilologus (2002); "Fredrika Runeberg's Strategies in Writing the History of Finnish Women in Sigrid Liljeholm," in Scandinavian Studies (2006); and "Free Indirect Discourse in Early Finnish Novels by Fredrika Runeberg and Zacharias Topelius," in Avain (2007). Currently she is working on historiographic metafiction, first-person historical novels, and questions of intermediality such as ekphrasis in representing the past.

Gregory Stephens currently teaches in the English Department at the University of South Florida. From 2004 to 2008, he was Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Film at the University of West Indies–Mona (Jamaica). At UWI he earned a master's in Spanish [End Page 71] literature, with a thesis on Subcomandante Marcos and the poetics of indigenismo in Zapatista discourse. His film criticism has appeared in Senses of Cinema, Screening the Past, Kinema, and others. His writings on Latin American literature have been published in journals such as Latin American Literary Review and Confluencia. Stephens is the author of On Racial Frontiers: The New Culture of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Bob Marley (Cambridge UP, 1999). [End Page 72]

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