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  • Contributors

Jennifer Barager Sibara (jennifersibara@gmail.com) recently completed her doctorate in English and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. She is currently revising a book manuscript titled Imperial Injuries: Race, Disease, and Disability in North American Narratives of Resistance. She is also coediting an anthology on disability studies and environmental justice. She works as a Senior Grant Writer at the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation and the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School.

Daniel Barlow (dpb29@pitt.edu) is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Graduate Program for Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the recipient of the 2013 Elizabeth Baranger Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Pittsburgh’s Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. Winner of the 2009 Colby Kullman Prize for Outstanding Critical Work, his articles appear in the Society for Ethnomusicology Student News and the Southern Literary Journal. He is currently working on a dissertation about narrative and the musics of the African diaspora.

Peter L. Bayers (pbayers@fairfield.edu) is an Associate Professor of English and the Director of the undergraduate American Studies program at Fairfield University. In addition to his publications on Native masculinity in the writing of William Apess and Charles Alexander Eastman, he has also published scholarship on Western Americana. His book, Imperial Ascent: Mountaineering, Masculinity, and Empire (University Press of Colorado, 2003), critiques the relationship between white masculinity and imperialism in American, British, and Nepalese mountaineering narratives. He is currently researching Native American masculinity in contemporary Native cinema.

Joseph L. Coulombe (coulombe@rowan.edu) is a Professor at Rowan University, where he also serves as Chair of the English Department. He has published two books—Mark Twain and the American West (University of Missouri Press, 2003) and Reading Native American Literature (Routledge, 2011)—as well as articles on Walt Whitman, Edith Wharton, and Dorothy Parker, among others.

Martha J. Cutter (martha.cutter@uconn.edu) is a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut and the Editor-in-Chief of MELUS. Her first book, Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women’s Writing, 1850–1930 (University Press of Mississippi, 1999), won the Nancy Dasher Award from the College English Association for the best book of literary criticism published between 1999 and 2001. Her second book, Lost and Found in Translation, was published in 2005 by the University of North Carolina Press. Her articles have appeared in American Literature, African American Review, MELUS, Callaloo, Women’s Studies, Legacy, Criticism, Arizona Quarterly, and in several essay collections. [End Page 228]

Amanda Dykema (adykema@umd.edu) is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her dissertation, “Inappropriate(d) Literatures of the United States,” argues that the disciplining of racialized subjects in an ostensibly post-racial United States has been accomplished in the past two decades by the deployment of a variety of regulatory mechanisms that she groups under the umbrella of propriety. Her research interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century US literature and literary criticism, ethnic literature and minority discourse, critical theory, and cultural studies.

Jennifer Ho (jho@email.unc.edu) is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her current manuscript, Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture, considers various forms of racially ambiguous subjects (such as transnational/transracial Asian adoptees, multiracial Asian American authors/texts, and Tiger Woods). Future writing projects include a monograph on Gish Jen (under contract with the University of South Carolina Press as part of the “Understanding American Literature” series), an edited collection on race and narrative theory, and a critical autobiography about breast cancer.

Jinny Huh (jinny.huh@uvm.edu) is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Vermont specializing in comparative race studies and detective fiction. She has published an essay in Modern Fiction Studies and has forthcoming essays in The Colorblind Screen: Television in Post-Racial America (New York University Press) and Techno-Orientalism (Rutgers University Press). She is also completing a manuscript titled The Arresting Eye: Race and the Anxiety of Detection.

Ralina L. Joseph (rljoseph@uw.edu) is an Associate...

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