Contributors
- Contributors
MARTINA CASPARI, née Eidecker, received her PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. From 1996 to 1999 she was an assistant professor of German at Georgia State University. Since 2004 she has been an adjunct lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Esslingen. She also worked as deputy director at the Swiss International School near Stuttgart until the birth of her two sons, in 2011 and 2013 respectively. She has published a book entitled Sinnsuche und Trauerarbeit und Sinnsuche. Funktionen von Schreiben in Irmtraud Morgners Werk (Olms-Weidmann, 1998) and edited the collection Positionen. Amerikanische und europäische Interpretationen zur neuesten deutschsprachigen Literatur von Frauen (Die Blaue Eule, 1999). She also has published articles and book reviews on German literature and the didactics of literature as well as on foreign and second language pedagogy.
NANCY CHRISTOPH is an associate professor of Spanish at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. She received her PhD in Latin American literature from Cornell University. At Pacific University, she teaches all levels of language, literature, and culture classes, including classes in her area of expertise, twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin American literature and culture. She is especially interested in Mexican and Mexican American cultural productions by women. She also is deeply committed to issues [End Page 282] related to community-based learning and the scholarship of engagement. Over the years, she increasingly has been drawn to poetry and has taught a local community poetry class to Mexican immigrant women since 2003. She is currently working on a project with Oregon Poetic Voices to document on their website (oregonpoeticvoices.org) the poetry written by Spanish-speaking immigrants living in Oregon.
JEFFREY GRAY is a professor of English at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. He is author of Mastery’s End: Travel and Postwar American Poetry (U of Georgia P, 2005) and of many articles on poetry and American culture. He is editor of the five-volume Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry (Greenwood, 2005), coeditor (with Ann Keniston) of The New American Poetry of Engagement: A 21st Century Anthology (McFarland, 2012), and translator of Guatemalan novelist Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s The African Shore (Yale UP, 2013). He was born in Seattle, Washington, and has lived in Asia, the South Pacific, Europe, and Latin America.
WEIHSIN GUI is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of National Consciousness and Literary Cosmopolitics: Postcolonial Literature in a Global Moment (Ohio State UP, 2013). He is also the editor of an anthology of essays on the Singaporean poet and painter Arthur Yap entitled Common Lines and City Spaces (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014). His work has been published or is forthcoming in the Encyclopedia of the Novel and Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory (Blackwell), Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, and LIT: Literature-Interpretation-Theory. He is currently working on a book project about neoliberalism, literary aesthetics, and narratives of Rising Asia.
MELODY YUNZI LI is a PhD candidate in comparative literature at Washington University in St. Louis, where she is also a McDonnell International Academy scholar. She earned her master of philosophy in translation studies from the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include Asian American and Asian diaspora literature, transnational studies, and modern Chinese literature. Previously she has published “The Voice of Otherness in Ha Jin’s Waiting” in Korean in The Yon Min Hak Chi. She has also translated Rob Wilson’s poems into Chinese for the Malaysian journal Chao Foon.
CHELEEN ANN-CATHERINE MAHAR was named emeritus professor of anthropology by Pacific University in 2014. Prior to that she taught at Pacific [End Page 283] for twenty years, four of them as a distinguished university professor. She is the author of several articles about Mexico, New Zealand, and social theory. She has published Reinventing Practice in a Disenchanted World: Bourdieu and Urban Poverty in Oaxaca, (U of Texas P) and is the editor of Cuisine and Symbolic Capital: Food in Film and Literature (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), and coeditor, with R. Harker and C. Wilkes, of An Introduction to the Work of Pierre Bourdieu: The Practice of...
