Contributors’ Notes
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J. Elizabeth Clark is Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College (CUNY) and a member of the Radical Teacher editorial collective.
Emily Drabinski is an Electronic Resources and Instruction Librarian at Long Island University, Brooklyn and a member of the Radical Teacher editorial collective.
Laura Fokkena is an Ed.M. student in International Education Policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Ph.D. student in Educational Studies at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. She grew up in Iowa but has spent the past ten years in Boston working in after-school programming and as an English as a Second Language instructor. Her research focuses on education and globalization, particularly on issues related to race, religion, and identity construction among Muslim immigrant students in the United States and Germany.
Corey Frost is a coordinator of the Writing Across the Curriculum program at Brooklyn College. His current research focuses on oral poetry performance and its relationship to audio-visual technology.
Larry Hanley teaches American Studies at San Francisco State University. He blogs at www.babylonisburning.net.
James Kilgore served six and a half years in federal and state prisons in California where he worked as a teacher’s aide. He is the author of three novels which he wrote while incarcerated: We Are All Zimbabweans Now (2009); Freedom Never Rests: A Story of Democracy in South Africa (forthcoming 2011); and Prudence Couldn’t Swim (forthcoming 2011). He is presently a research scholar at the Center for African Studies in Illinois.
Tricia M. Kress is an Assistant Professor in the Leadership in Urban Schools doctoral program at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research involves exploring the potential of critical pedagogy and critical research for transformative learning and social change.
Mark McBeth is as an Associate Professor in the English Department of John Jay College of Criminal Justice. During his tenure at John Jay, he has acted as Deputy Chair for Writing Programs, Writing Across the Curriculum Coordinator, and literacy initiatives consultant. His scholarly interests include Queer Theory and performance studies, particularly as they relate to the history of education, gay urban vernacular, and writing pedagogy and administration.
Leslie Martin is an Assistant Professor of sociology at the University of Mary Washington. She has also been teaching a cross-cultural education course in the Master’s in Education program at UMW.
Jennifer M. Miskec is an Assistant Professor of Children’s and Young Adult Literature at Longwood University.
Robert Ovetz, Ph.D, teaches at two San Francisco Bay Area community colleges. [End Page 79]
Sarah T. Roberts is a doctoral student and fellow in the Information in Society program at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois, where her current research focuses on the critical unveiling of the global chain of hidden labor practices in Internet-based user-generated content and social media. Previously, she had a lengthy career as an academic information technologist and specialist in multimedia and social computing in the higher ed setting, creating, among other things, the Froshlife digital movie festival. She blogs periodically at http://illusionofvolition.com/
Tyler T. Schmidt is an Assistant Professor of English and co-coordinator of the Writing Across the Curriculum program at Lehman College, CUNY. A former Mellon Fellow at the Center for Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, he has published essays in Obsidian III, African American Review, and Women’s Studies Quarterly. His current project examines cross-race writing, desegregation, and interracial sexuality in American literature of the 1950s.
Christopher Tinson, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Hampshire College. His interdisciplinary research and teaching interests include black radical traditions, pan-Africanism, Hip-Hop culture, race and sports, critical media studies, and community-based education. A resident of Holyoke, Massachusetts, he has conducted workshops at various college campuses, high schools, and juvenile detention centers in the area, serves as a youth mentor, and since 2006 is co-host of TRGGR Radio, a Hip-Hop-rooted social justice radio program.
Karen Weingarten is an Assistant Professor of English and Co-Director of First Year Writing at Queens College, City University of New York. Her research and teaching interests...
