Contributors
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Alexis Easley is an assistant professor of English at the University of Alaska Southeast, where she teaches literature and creative writing. She has published articles on women's literature and composition in Women's Writing, Nineteenth-Century Prose, and many other journals. Her book First-Person Anonymous: Periodical Journalism and the Victorian Woman Author, is forthcoming from Ashgate Press.
Thomas Y. Fujita-Rony received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in American culture. He is an assistant professor in the Asian American Studies program at California State University in Fullerton. His interests include the Japanese American exclusion and incarceration, history of the U.S. West with a focus on California and Hawai'i, labor history, feminist analysis, pedogogy, and critical theory.
Christina K. Hutchins is a Ph.D. candidate in interdisciplinary studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and a graduate of Harvard and of the University of California, Davis. Her dissertation, a theory of reading philosophically, draws on A. N. Whitehead and Judith Butler, as do her recent essays published in Theology and Sexuality and Process and Difference (SUNY, 2002). In addition to her book, Collecting Light (AcaciaBooks, 1999), over seventy of her poems appear in journals such as North American Review, Journal of Feminist Studies of Religion, Nimrod, Calyx, Cream City Review, and in various anthologies. She was granted the Montalvo Poetry Prize and a Money for Women/Barbara Deming Award for Poetry, and several of her poems have recently been set by composers into major vocal works.
Elaine J. Lawless is the Curators' Distinguished Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Lawless received her Ph.D. from the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, with minors in English [End Page 162] and women's studies. She teaches self-designed courses in all of these areas. Her scholarly work is ethnographic and political, and she is published primarily in the area of women in religion. More recently, she worked in a shelter to document the narratives of battered women. Her books include God's Peculiar People, Handmaidens of the Lord, Holy Women, Wholly Women, Women Preaching Revolution, and Women Escaping Violence: Empowerment Through Narrative, and she has published many articles.
Ruthanne Lum McCunn is the author of eight books about the experiences of Chinese on both sides of the Pacific, including the award-winning titles Wooden Fish Songs and Sole Survivor and, most recently, The Moon Pearl. Her work has been translated into eight languages and adapted for the stage and film. Visit her Web site at http://www.mccunn.com.
Anne Mulvey is a professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, where she teaches women's studies and community psychology, integrating activism in her courses. She runs creative writing groups for women, recently coedited two special issues on feminism and community psychology for the American Journal of Community Psychology, and has published theoretical, research-based, and creative writing related to her interests.
Susan N. Platt is a freelance art historian and art critic based in Seattle. Her most recent book is Art and Politics in the 1930s (Midmarch Arts Press). She is also a contributing editor for Art Papers Magazine. She spent a year in Turkey in 1999 on a Fulbright Fellowship teaching contemporary art and studying contemporary art in Turkey.
Susanna Rich is a professor of English at Kean University where she hosts Poets on Air over WKNJ radio and teaches courses on Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf. Nimrod, Feminist Studies, Kalliope, and Phoebe, among others, have published her work. The fourth edition of her textbook, The Flexible Writer, has just been published by Longman/Allyn and Bacon.
Christina Tourino received her Ph.D. in 2000 and teaches multicultural literatures of the United States, comparative American literatures, and Latin American literatures for the English department at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota. Her article, "Anxieties of Impotence: Cuban Americans in NYC," was published recently in a special thematic issue on Latin America by Purdue University's Comparative Cultural Studies, edited by Sophia A. McClennen and Earl E. Fitz.
Tuyet-Lan Pho is the director of the Center for Diversity and Pluralism at the University...
