Contributors
- Contributors
Dohra Ahmad is associate professor of English at St. John’s University where she teaches courses on World Anglophone, postcolonial, American, and ethnic American literature, utopian fiction, postcolonial theory, and canonicity. She is the author of Landscapes of Hope: Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America (2009) and editor of Rotten English: A Literary Anthology (2007). Her articles have appeared in ELH, Yale Journal of Criticism, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, and Social Text.
Ira James Allen is a PhD candidate in rhetoric and composition at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he teaches freshman and advanced composition. He is simultaneously a PhD candidate in media and communication at the European Graduate School, Leuk-Stadt, Switzerland, and has published essays on rhetorical theory, composition pedagogy, and literature.
Paul T. Corrigan teaches writing and literature at Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida. He has written short articles on contemplative teaching for Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice and Teaching Professor.
Elizabeth Hatmaker is the author of Girl in Two Pieces (2010), a collection of poems and essays about the 1947 Black Dahlia murder and the rhetoric of true crime. Her work is also featured in Life as We Show It: Writing on Film (2009), ACM, Bird Dog, Epoch, LLAD, Mississippi Review, MiPOesias, Mandorla, L’Bourgeoizine, Mirage/Periodical, and Social Epistemology. She teaches writing, cultural studies, film, and urban education at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois.
Gina Hunter is associate professor of anthropology at Illinois State University and is a codirector of the Ethnography of the University Initiative, based at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has published ethnographic research on reproductive politics, birth control, and motherhood in Brazil. She teaches courses on global problems, ethnology, gender, and qualitative research methods, and she has mentored students in ethnographic research in Brazil. [End Page 201]
Erick Kelemen is the director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Fordham University, where he occasionally teaches medieval literature. His textbook, Textual Editing and Criticism: An Introduction (2009), aims to make textual criticism accessible to undergraduates.
Teresa Mangum is associate professor of English at the University of Iowa and director of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century British fiction, age studies, human-animal studies, and publicly engaged scholarship and teaching. She is a founding codirector of the Obermann Graduate Institute for Engagement and the Academy.
Sean Murray is assistant professor of English composition at the Institute for Writing Studies at St. John’s University in Queens, New York. His current teaching interests center on academic service learning; for the past several years, he and his students have developed a project that explores the implications of consumerism by visiting a local fair-trade organization. He is also currently collaborating with a philosophy professor to develop a set of courses on the linked theme of social justice and writing.
Shondel J. Nero is associate professor of Teaching English as a Second Language and director of the Program in Multilingual/Multicultural Studies at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University. Her research examines the politics, challenges, and strategies of educating students who speak and/or write in nonstandard varieties of English, world Englishes, and creoles. She has researched the linguistic and educational needs of speakers of Caribbean Creole English in New York City schools and colleges. Her work has appeared in TESOL Quarterly and numerous scholarly journals. She is the author of Englishes in Contact: Anglophone Caribbean Students in an Urban College (2001) and editor of Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education (2006).
Adam Pacton is a PhD student in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where he studies rhetoric and composition. His research focuses on composition pedagogy and assessment. [End Page 202]
Rebecca Potter is associate professor in the English department at the University of Dayton, where she regularly teaches courses on the novel, eighteenth-century British literature, and literature and the environment. She has cotaught another interdisciplinary course on cities and energy with colleagues in the history and physics departments. Her published work ranges from studies of early modern poetry to her main interest, contemporary environmental writers. She is currently finishing a book manuscript, “The Property...
