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  • Our Contributors

Joe DeLong is a doctoral candidate in English and comparative literature at the University of Cincinnati, where he has taught courses in composition and literature. His research interests include contemporary American poetry, contemporary Japanese poetry, emotion theory, and translation theory.

Catherine Emmanuelle recently completed her undergraduate degree in women’s studies with a minor in American minorities, inequalities, and economics at the University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire. A former candidate for city council and civic engagement coach, Emmanuelle will pursue a graduate degree in public policy.

Alice Ginsberg continues to write and do original research on women’s studies, equity, and education. Her publications include The Evolution of American Women’s Studies (2008), And Finally We Meet (2011), Embracing Risk in Urban Education (2011), Difficult Dialogues About 21st Century Girls (forthcoming, 2012).

Kelly Hankin is an associate professor of film studies and the Director of the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies at the University of Redlands. She is the author of Girls in the Backroom: Looking at the Lesbian Bar (2002) and numerous essays that explore the intersections between women, sexuality, and cinema. Her film “A Woman Reported . . .” screened at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.

Elizabeth Fleitz Kuechenmeister is an instructor in the General Studies Writing Program at Bowling Green State University. Her research interests include feminist rhetorics, food studies, and rhetorics of the body.

Jennifer Musial is currently a lecturer at Northern Arizona University. She regularly teaches courses in women’s/gender studies, social justice, critical race theory, popular culture, and body studies. She also teaches hatha, power, and vinyasa flow yoga classes.

Marilyn Preston is a doctoral candidate in human development and family studies at the University of Missouri. Her research focuses on sexuality, pedagogy, and the political discourses that surround adolescent [End Page 267] development. She is also a mother, an advocate, and part of a collective of feminist teachers and scholars.

Dora Ramirez-Dhoore is an associate professor of American literature at Boise State University. Her research interrogates the relationships between textual production and how our global systems fashion citizens to consume those words and images. Her scholarly work has been published in Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy, Chicana/Latina Studies, The Natural World in Latin American Literatures: Ecocritical Essays on Twentieth Century Writings, and Teaching Writing with Latino/a Students: Lessons Learned at Hispanic-Serving Institutions. She holds a doctorate in literature from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Aaronette M. White is an associate professor of psychology and feminist studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz. Her most recently edited book is African Americans Doing Feminism: Putting Theory into Everyday Practice (SUNY Press).

Tuesday Wustrack is finishing her undergraduate education at the University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire, studying English literature and journalism. She is also a high school dance coach and uses her education to empower her young female dancers. After graduation, she hopes to become a magazine writer and editor. [End Page 268]

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