Contributors
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Ricia Anne Chansky is an Assistant Professor of literature and writing at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez where she also directs the graduate program in English Education. She is the Co-editor of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies and her scholarship explores the praxis of women’s narratives, visual culture, and the rhetorics of domesticity.
Tracy Curtis, Ph.D., is faculty in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Jacqueline Edmondson, Ph.D., is associate dean for undergraduate and graduate studies and professor of education at the Pennsylvania State University. She has written several biographies for adolescent and general readers, and she is editor of Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories that Shaped Our Culture (forthcoming, ABC-CLIO Press).
Marina Fedosik is a Lecturer at New York University. Her interdisciplinary research on representations of kinship in American literature, film, and culture reveals the potential for new knowledge offered by the adoption studies perspective. Among her publications is “Genealogical Ambiguity and Racial Identity: Adoption and Passing in Kate Chopin’s ‘Desiree’s Baby’ and Jessie Redmon Fauset’s ‘The Sleeper Wakes,’” an article published in the 2009 collection America and the Black Body: Identity Politics in Print and Visual Culture (ed. Carol Henderson, Farleigh Dickinson UP). Another article, “Orphan and The Member of the Family: Disability and Secrecy in Narratives of Disrupted Eastern European Adoption,” published in the third volume of Adoption & Culture, draws on crossovers between adoption and disability studies in order to examine the tendency of American culture to imagine transnational adoption as rehabilitation.
Anthony S. Foy teaches African American literature and culture at Swarthmore College, where he has also directed the Black Studies Program. His first book, Black Ideography: Autobiography, Ideology & Image in Jim Crow America, examines the impact of discourses of race, class, and visuality on African American autobiography after Reconstruction. His article on the emergence of the black athlete autobiographer, “Joe Louis’s Talking Fists,” has been published in American Literary History. [End Page 238]
Daniel A. Holder is a Ph.D. student at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. He is working in the fields of African American literature, US cultural history, and masculinity studies. His dissertation project treats the intersection of life writing, black masculinities, and resistance to McCarthyism and is entitled, “Setting the Record Straight”: Life Writing, Black Masculinities and the Resistance to McCarthyism. It is scheduled to appear in summer 2013.
Patrick E. Horn is a graduate student in English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His dissertation analyzes “Narrative Empathy for ‘the Other’ in American Literature, 1845–1945.” He has essays forthcoming in William Faulkner: Critical Insights (Salem, 2013) and Fifty Years After Faulkner (UP of Mississippi, 2014), and he has written or edited summaries of over fifty slave narratives for UNC Library’s digital archive, “Documenting the American South.” Before attending graduate school, he served as a US Air Force intelligence officer in Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, Kuwait, and East Africa.
Eric D. Lamore is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez where he teaches courses in African American literatures, United States literatures, and Anglophone Caribbean literatures. He is the co-editor of New Essays on Phillis Wheatley (U of Tennessee P, 2011) and the editor of Teaching Olaudah Equiano’s Narrative: Pedagogical Strategies and New Perspectives (U of Tennessee P, 2012). He is working on a book that investigates the phenomenon of Olaudah Equiano.
Joycelyn Moody is Professor of English and Sue E. Denman Distinguished Chair in American Literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she teaches courses on early African American literature and culture, US slavery, and US black autobiography. She and John Ernest co-edit the reprint series Regenerations: African American Literature and Culture for West Virginia UP.
Linda Furgerson Selzer is an Associate Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Charles Johnson in Context (U of Massachusetts P, 2009), and co-editor of New Essays...
