Contributors
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Edward Bruce Bynum, Ph.D., ABPP, is a clinical psychologist and director of behavioral medicine at the University of Massachusetts Health Services/CCPH. He is the author of The African Unconscious: Roots of Ancient Mysticism and Modern Psychology (Teachers College, 1999) and most recently of Dark Light Consciousness: Melanin, Serpent Power and the Luminous Matrix of Reality (Inner Traditions & Bear, 2012). He won the 2010 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize for Chronicles of the Pig & Other Delusions and is a recipient of the Abraham H. Maslow Award from the American Psychological Association. "The Races of America" is from an unpublished manuscript, titled Confessions from the Earth.
Douglas Field is a lecturer in twentieth-century American literature at the University of Manchester. He is the editor of American Cold War Culture (Edinburgh UP, 2005), A Historical Guide to James Baldwin (Oxford UP, 2009) and the author of James Baldwin (Northcote House, 2011). He is also coediting a special issue on James Baldwin with Rich Blint for African American Review to appear later in 2013.
Reginald Flood is a native of south central Los Angeles who now lives in a small town in southeastern Connecticut with his family. He has received a Walker Fellowship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Center and was the recipient of the Editor's Prize from Tidal Basin Review. His poems have appeared in The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, Cave Canem X Anniversary Collection, Massachusetts Review, Mythium, and Hampton-Sydney Review. He is a Cave Canem fellow and the coordinator of African American Studies at Eastern Connecticut State University, where he teaches composition, African American literature, and creative writing in the English department.
Tomás Gayton was born and raised in Seattle, Washington, the grandson of African American pioneers. He began writing verse soon after graduating with a Juris Doctor from the University of Washington, and is a civil rights attorney/ activist and world traveler who lives in San Diego. Tomás's most recent volume of poetry is Vientos de Cambio/Winds of Change, published by Poetic Matrix in 2005. Others include Yazoo City Blues, Time of the Poet, Dark Symphony in Duet, with the late Sarah Fabio, and Two Races, One Face, with John Peterson. Tomás's work is also featured on his website, www.sambajia.com.
Sheldon George is an associate professor of English at Simmons College, where he teaches courses on theory and American literature. He is an associate editor of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, and he is currently completing a book-length project titled Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Identity.
Anna Hartnell is a lecturer in contemporary literature at Birkbeck, University of London. She is author of Rewriting Exodus: American Futures from Du Bois to Obama (Pluto, 2011), and her current book project is entitled After Katrina: Race, Transnationalism, and the End of the American Century.
Vonsha Henderson, Ph.D., is an associate professor of English at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Jennifer E. Henton teaches African American, Caribbean, and African literature and film, as well as women's studies and LGBT studies courses. She currently teaches at Hofstra University and is completing a manuscript that examines the way black literature and psychoanalysis share similar ethics and aesthetics. [End Page 271]
Shelley Ingram is an assistant professor of English and folklore at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her research focuses on the intersections of folklore, race, and literature, and she is currently working on an edited collection titled Betrayal: Race, Class, and Conscience in the Study of Folklore.
Daniel Kreiss is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Kreiss's research focuses on the intersection of media, technology, and movements.
Michael LeMahieu is an assistant professor of English at Clemson University and associate editor for American fiction at Contemporary Literature. His book Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945-1975 is forthcoming in 2013 from Oxford University Press. His current book project examines the role of Civil War memory in American literature.
Michael Meyerhofer's third book, Damnatio Memoriae...
