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Majda R. Atieh (m.r.atieh@gmail.com) is a faculty member in the English Department of Damascus University, Syria, where she teaches literary criticism and comparative literature courses. Her research and teaching interests include African, Arabian, and US multi-ethnic literatures. She contributed a chapter to Dana A. Williams's Contemporary African American Fiction: New Critical Essays (2009); scholarly entries to Michael D. Sollars's Companion to the World Novel: 1900 to the Present (2008); and Dictionary of Literary Characters (2010). Her current publications engage space theory, feminist cultural geography, and black cultural studies to examine black women's road narratives.

Valerie Babb (vbabb@uga.edu) is a Professor of English and African American studies at the University of Georgia. Published works include Whiteness Visible: The Meaning of Whiteness in American Literature and Culture (1998) and Black Georgetown Remembered: A History of Its Black Community from the Founding of "the Town of George" in 1751 to the Present Day (1991). Her current project is "The Ghana Renaissance: Afro-Politics and Culture, 1960-1966."

Stella Bolaki (Stella.Bolaki@glasgow.ac.uk) is a Lecturer in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. She has published in the fields of contemporary American literature and culture, focusing on multi-ethnic fiction and women's writing. Her forthcoming monograph, to be published by Rodopi, brings together genre and cultural theory and examines the female bildungsroman tradition in an ethnic American and postcolonial context. She is currently working on a book-length study that examines contemporary narratives of illness and disability and a project on Audre Lorde's transatlantic relations with black diasporic communities in Europe.

Jessica Wells Cantiello (jcantiello@gc.cuny.edu) is a PhD Candidate in English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has taught at Hunter College, Queens College, The Cooper Union, and John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where she is now a Graduate Writing Fellow. Her dissertation investigates American teacher memoirs, autobiographies written by American K-12 teachers from 1839 to the present. She has published articles in Prose Studies and Antípodas: Journal of Hispanic and Galician Studies. Her essay "'That Story about the Gun': Pseudo-Memory in Julia Alvarez's Autobiographical Novels" appeared in the spring 2011 issue of MELUS (36.1). [End Page 211]

Ondra Krouse Dismukes (ondra7@uga.edu) is a PhD Candidate at the University of Georgia in Athens. Her dissertation examines the ways African American women writers use scenes of dance to consolidate knowledge and preserve culture. Her research interests include African American literature, women's studies, and dance. She has published a book review in Callaloo (2010) and essays in research publications, including The Funk Era and Beyond: New Perspectives on Black Popular Culture (2008) and The Langston Hughes Review (2005). She has taught courses in composition, multicultural American literature, and multicultural literature.

Cynthia Dobbs (cdobbs@pacific.edu) is an Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Faculty Development at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. Her teaching and research focus on African American literature and the Literature of the American South, with particular emphasis on William Faulkner and Toni Morrison. She has published articles and book reviews in American Literature, African American Review, The Faulkner Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Literary Mama.

Rebecca Ferguson (r.ferguson@tsd.ac.uk) is a Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, UK. She has published on the writings of Alexander Pope, including her book Th'Unbalanc'd Mind: Pope and the Rule of Passion (1986). Her publications on Morrison include Rereading Black Identities: Transition and Exchange in the Novels of Toni Morrison (2007), for which she received a Recognition Award from the Toni Morrison Society in 2008, and articles on Beloved, Song of Solomon, and Paradise. She is currently writing on Pope and Swift as well as a study of Morrison for the series Writers and Their Work.

Doreen Fowler (dfowler@ku.edu), a Professor of English at the University of Kansas, is the author of Faulkner: The Return of the Repressed (1997) and the coeditor of eleven collections of essays on Faulkner...

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