Contributors
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Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́ is a professor in the departments of English and African American and African Studies at the Ohio State University. He is the author of Proverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature (1998) and The Slave’s Rebellion: History, Orature, Literature (2005). His ongoing research is on new panegyric forms in Lagos, Nigeria, and animist poetics in African American poetry.
Gabeba Baderoon received a PhD in English from the University of Cape Town. She has held fellowships at the African Gender Institute, the University of Sheffi eld, the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, and the Nordic Africa Institute. Baderoon is completing a monograph on representations of Islam and slavery and the construction of race and sex in South Africa. Her articles have appeared in African and Asian Studies, Research in African Literatures , Ecquid Novi , The Arab World Geographer , and World Literature Today . Baderoon is an assistant professor of Women’s Studies and African and African American studies at Pennsylvania State University.
Brendan J. Balint, assistant professor of English at D’Youville College, earned his PhD at Loyola University Chicago in 2007. His current work explores the relationship between ethics and the literary, analyzing forms of fragility and failure in contemporary literature and the role such characteristics play in our various conceptions of community, friendship, and love.
Ralph Bauer is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has published The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity (2003, 2008), An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru (2005), and (with José Antonio Mazzotti) Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas: Empires, Texts, Identities (2009), as well as articles in collections and journals such as American Literary History , American Literature , Early American Literature , PMLA , Revista Iberoamericana , Colonial Latin American Review , Dieciocho , and Latin American Research Review .
Marc Caplan is a native of Louisiana and a graduate of Yale University. In 2003 he received a PhD from New York University in Comparative [End Page 133] Literature; since then he has held appointments at Indiana University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University. In 2006 he became the first recipient of the Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Professorship of Yiddish Literature, Language, and Culture at the Johns Hopkins University.
Sinkwan Cheng is the editor of Law, Justice, and Power: Between Reason and Will (Stanford University Press). Prof. Cheng has taught in Berlin and New York, and has given faculty seminars and lectures in England, Germany, the United States (including Columbia University), South Korea, and Hong Kong. In addition to her Stanford volume, Prof. Cheng has articles in MLN, Cardozo Law Review, American Journal of Semiotics, and Literature and Psychology. Over the past decade, she has been the recipient of five external fellowships and awards (including a Rockefeller Fellowship and a DAAD Fellowship). While at SUNY Buffalo, she also won an Excellence in Teaching Award in a campus-wide competition.
Eleni Coundouriotis is an associate professor of English and the associate director of the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut. She is currently completing a book on the war novel in Africa entitled The People’s Right to the Novel . Her earlier work includes Claiming History: Colonialism, Ethnography and the Novel (1999) and numerous articles on African fi ction, European realism, and human rights.
Mónica Díaz is an assistant professor at Georgia State University, where she teaches colonial Latin American literature and culture. She is the author of Indigenous Writings from the Convent: Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico (2010).
Ellis Dye is DeWitt Wallace Professor emeritus of German at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he taught language, literature, and philosophy (Nietzsche, Heidegger, existentialism). He was presiding officer of the faculty and, for many years, chair of German Studies and Russian. Dye has served as book review editor of the Goethe Yearbook and as president, vice president, and director at large of the Goethe Society of North America. Among his publications are Love and Death in Goethe: “One and Double” (2004); two essays in PMLA ; “Figurations of the Feminine in Goethe’s Faust ,” in A Companion to Goethe’s “Faust” ; many articles for the online...
