Contributors
- Contributors
Brittney Cooper (bccooper2@as.ua.edu) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender and Race Studies at the University of Alabama. She specializes in black women's intellectual history, black feminism, and hiphop studies. She is a founding member of the Crunk Feminist Collective, a women-of-color scholar-activist group.
Doris Davis (ddavis@tamut.edu) is Regents Professor of English at Texas A&M University-Texarkana, where she teaches courses in literature and composition. She has recently published articles on Kate Chopin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jane Austen. She has also published poems and a short story in the Aquila Review. She is the director of the East Texas Writing Project, a National Writing Project site, and she also directs a citywide summer writing program for youth.
Justin D. Gifford (jdgifford@unr.edu) is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he teaches American and African American literature and popular culture. His forthcoming book, Pimping Fictions: Iceberg Slim, Donald Goines, and the Invention of Black Crime Literature, uncovers the secret history of twentieth-century African American crime and detective fiction.
Carol E. Henderson (ceh@english.udel.edu) is Associate Director of Black American Studies and Associate Professor of English and Black American Studies at the University of Delaware, Newark. She is the author of Scarring the Black Body: Race and Representation in African American Literature (2002) and the editor of three books: James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain: Historical and Critical Essays (2006), America and the Black Body (2009), and Imagining the Black Female Body (forthcoming, 2010). Her work has appeared in journals such Legacy, The Journal of Popular Culture, Religion and Literature, and Modern Fiction Studies, as well as in other professional journals and critical volumes. She is currently at work on a monograph titled Resurrecting the Hottentot Venus: Visions, Revisions, and Literary Responses. [End Page 200]
Shelly Jarenski (sjarensk@umd.umich.edu) is an Assistant Professor of English and an affiliated member of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, where she teaches American and African American literature, visual culture, and literary theory. She has published on the role of female education in late eighteenth-century seduction narratives and is completing a manuscript that studies nineteenth-century American authors' aesthetic experimentation with visual culture in narrative.
Nina Mikkelsen (nbethmik@yahoo.com) has taught at universities in Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. Publications include Virginia Hamilton (1994), Powerful Magic (2005), and articles and essays in African American Review, Encyclopedia of Ethnic American Literature, and MELUS.
Louis Moore (moorelou@gvsu.edu) is an Assistant Professor of history at Grand Valley State University, where he teaches African American, Civil Rights, Sports, and US History. His research interest is the interconnection between race, gender, class, and sport. He is currently working on a manuscript about black prizefighters from 1815 to 1915.
Janet Neary (jneary@hunter.cuny.edu) is an Assistant Professor of nineteenth-century African American literature and culture at Hunter College. She is currently at work on a manuscript titled Fugitive Testimony: Race, Representation, and the Slave Narrative Form.
Camille Passalacqua (camillepass@gmail.com) is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at North Carolina Central University. Recently, she completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is currently working on a book manuscript about survival and healing as represented in contemporary literary texts.
Pamela J. Rader (raderp@georgian.edu) is a member of the English department at Georgian Court University in New Jersey, where she teaches world, women's, and multi-ethnic literatures. In addition to publishing Multi-Ethnicity as a Resource for the Literary Imagination: The Creative Achievements of Women Artists, Poets, and Novelists (2009), she continues to publish internationally on the works of Sandra Cisneros, Edwidge Danticat, Assia Djebar, Louise Erdrich, and Marjane Satrapi. Her current project examines productive silences in literature. [End Page 201]
Therese M. Rizzo (therese.rizzo@uncp.edu) is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Pembroke. She has published in Studies in the Humanities (2007) and, most recently, in America and the Black Body...
