Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
David Haven Blake is chair and professor of English at The College of New Jersey. He is the author of Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity (2006) and the co-editor of Walt Whitman, Where the Future Becomes Present (2008). He is currently writing a book about politics and celebrity during the Eisenhower era.
Jelani Jefferson Exum is an Associate Professor at the University of Toledo College of Law. She teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Sentencing, and Race and American Law, and has also taught Comparative Criminal Procedure. Professor Exum writes mainly in the area of federal sentencing; however, her research interests also include comparative criminal law and procedure as well as the impact of race on criminal justice. She is the author of several articles and essays on sentencing, including “Sentencing, Drugs, and Prisons: A Lesson From Ohio” (42 U. TOL. L. REV. 881 (Summer 2011)) and “Reassessing Concurrent Tribal-State-Federal Criminal Jurisdiction in Kansas” (59 KAN. L. REV. 949 (2011) (with John J. Francis, Stacy L. Leeds, and Aliza Organick)).
Hee-Jung Serenity Joo is an assistant professor of English at the University of Manitoba, Canada. She has published articles on Asian American and African American literatures, science fiction, and globalization studies. She is currently at work on a manuscript that traces U.S. racial utopias and dystopias throughout the twentieth century.
Andrew J. Rosa is an assistant professor of history at Oklahoma State University where he teaches a wide range of courses in African American History and is completing an intellectual biography of the sociologist St. Clair Drake. Rosa’s work on Drake has recently appeared in Race and Class and he has forthcoming publications in the History of Education Quarterly and Journal of African American History. [End Page 4]
Elizabeth Schultz lives in Lawrence, Kansas, following retirement from the English Department of the University of Kansas, where she was Chancellor’s Club Teaching Professor. She remains committed to writing about the people and the places she loves in academic essays, nature essays, and poems. These include Herman Melville, her mother, and her friends, the Kansas wetlands and prairies, Michigan’s Higgins Lake, Japan, where she lived for six years, oceans everywhere. She has published several books, which include “Unpainted to the Last”: Moby-Dick and Twentieth-Century American Art and The Last White-Skin Deer: Hoopa Stories. Her scholarly and creative work appears in numerous journals and reviews.
Daniel S. Traber is associate professor of English at Texas A&M University at Galveston. He is the author of Whiteness, Otherness, and the Individualism Paradox from Huck to Punk (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). He is current book project is on “culturcide” and non-identity in popular culture. His articles on American literature and popular culture have appeared in journals such as Cultural Critique, Studies in American Fiction, The Journal of Popular Culture and The Hemingway Review.
Bess Williamson is Assistant Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is working on a book-length project, entitled Designing an Accessible America, on the history of accessible design in the United States.
J.A. Zumoff has a doctorate in history from University College London, and was recently a visiting assistant professor of history at New Jersey City University; currently he is teaching history at the City University of New York. His previous articles on Dashiell Hammett have appeared in Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature (2007) and Clues: A Journal of Detection (2008). He is working on a study of the relationship of the Communist Party of the United States and the Communist International in the 1920s. [End Page 5]
