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  • Contributors

María Ignacia Barraza received her Ph.D. (summa cum laude) from the University of Salamanca. Her areas of research include the literary generations of 1898 and 1927 in Spain, Latin American prose, as well as film and the visual arts. She has taught World Literature at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, B.C.

Carole Edwards received her doctorate from Purdue University in Francophone Studies (2005). She is an Associate Professor at Texas Tech University. Her research interests include North African, Sub-Saharan and Caribbean Francophone literature. She has published a monograph on French women dramatists (L'Harmattan 2008) and a volume on Sacrifice (Rodopi 2012). She has also published various articles ranging from literature, history to cultural studies (women in French, Routledge, etc).

Christopher S. Lewis recently received his Ph.D. in English from The Ohio State University. His book project, Black Queer Shamelessness, analyzes queer approaches to black identification and self-love found in 1980s African American LGBT writing.

Benjamin Ngong is an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Dickinson College, in Pennsylvania, USA. His research and teaching interests include Francophone African and Caribbean literatures, cultures and film, colonial and postcolonial studies. His published and forthcoming work focuses on the relationship of power to social and political violence as portrayed in African and Caribbean literatures and films.

ShaunAnne Tangney is an Assistant Professor of English at Minot State University where she teaches American literature and critical theory. She also teaches in the Studies in Community and Environment program, focusing on place studies and literature of the US West. She is also a poet, and her poetry has been published in the US, the UK, and Australia.

Valarie M. Arms, Ph.D., has used her background in mathematics and English to pioneer several innovative programs. With support at various times from [End Page 243] F.I.P.S.E., NSF and other funding sources, she has championed interdisciplinary approaches to Humanities in Engineering, computers in composition, and multi-modal projects in English Literature courses, such as the senior level Literature of the Holocausts. She currently serves as Associate Director for the Freshman Writing Program and Professor in the English and Philosophy Department at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [End Page 244]

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