Contributors
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Marilyn Alquizola is an independent scholar who has taught courses on Asian American literature, Filipino American literature, and Asian American women at San Francisco State University; the Colorado College; the University of Colorado at Boulder; and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She has published on Carlos Bulosan, Asian American literature, and Asian American studies. Marilyn is presently working on a series of articles dealing with various aspects of Bulosan's life and writing.
Holly Blackford, who received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University-Camden. She teaches and publishes literary criticism on American, children's, and adolescent literature. Her books include Out of This World: Why Literature Matters to Girls (2004); Mockingbird Passing: Closeted Traditions and Sexual Curiosities in Harper Lee's Novel (2011); The Myth of Persephone in Girls' Fantasy Literature (2011); and an edited volume, 100 Years of Anne with an "e": The Centennial Study of Anne of Green Gables (2009). She chairs the article award committee of the International Children's Literature Association and serves as a professor in Rutgers's PhD program in children and childhood studies.
Joanne Cordón is adjunct faculty at the University of Connecticut. She is currently working on a study of women's collaborative rhetoric in the long eighteenth century.
Farah Godrej received her PhD in political theory from Georgetown University and teaches in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside. Her areas of research and teaching include Indian political thought, Gandhi's political thought, cosmopolitanism, globalization, comparative political theory, feminist political thought, and environmental [End Page 167] political thought. Her research has appeared in journals such as the Review of Politics and Polity, and her book Cosmopolitan Political Thought: Method, Practice Discipline (2011) has just been published.
Lane Ryo Hirabayashi is a faculty member in the Asian American Studies Department at UCLA, where he is also the inaugural George and Sakaye Aratani Professor of the Japanese American Internment, Redress, and Community. He teaches courses on the Japanese American experience, Asian American documentaries, and contemporary issues in Asian American communities. Lane is presently working on a coauthored book that is based on the prison diaries and correspondence of his uncle Gordon K. Hirabayashi.
Elizabeth Littell-Lamb is an associate professor of history at the University of Tampa. Her research focuses on the Chinese YWCA, feminism, internationalism, and women's activism. She is the author of articles appearing in Research on Women in Modern Chinese History, in the Women's History Review, and in Erika K. Kuhlman and Kimberly Jensen's edited collection Women and Transnational Activism in Historical Perspective.
Susanne Slavick is an artist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon. She graduated from Yale University, subsequently studied at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, and earned her MFA at the Tyler School of Art in Rome and Philadelphia. Recent works have traveled to the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Museum, the Chicago Cultural Center, and the McDonough Museum of Art in Ohio. Her book Out of Rubble, featuring over thirty international artists who respond to the aftermath of war, was published in 2011. [End Page 168]
