Contributors
- Contributors
Robert Azzarello is an Assistant Professor of English at Southern University at New Orleans. He is the author of Queer Environmentality: Ecology, Evolution, and Sexuality in American Literature (Ashgate, 2012) and is currently writing a book on New Orleans in Literature.
Christina Boyles is a Ph.D. candidate at Baylor University. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary American literature, gender studies, cultural studies, pedagogy, and digital humanities. Her most recent literary research appears in the South Central Review and her latest pedagogical work can be found at both Pupil and The Write Book. Her current scholarship examines the role of myth-making in the works of marginalized female writers.
Richard Campanella, geographer and Senior Professor of Practice with the Tulane University School of Architecture, is the author of numerous articles and seven books on the Gulf South, including Geographies of New Orleans, Bienville’s Dilemma, and Delta Urbanism. He is the recipient of two Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year awards, the Williams Prize for Louisiana History, the Mortar Board Award for Excellence in Teaching from Tulane University, and the Monroe Fellowship from the Tulane’s New Orleans Center for the Gulf South.
Amanda Merle Cartwright is a mixed media artist and painter who has presented her work via shows, workshops, lectures, and publications throughout the coastal South and the Bahamas. Integrating many dimensions of the sacred, of feminine experience, and of relations to the wild or ritual environment, her spirit-and-myth-driven artistic practice also takes shape via rites of passage workshops, trance dance facilitation, and intuitive art-making workshops offered in Jacksonville, Florida as well as from her farm studio on Black Hammock Island. See www.etsy.com/DancingGoddessArts for more of her paintings, prints, and assemblage work.
Keith Cartwright is Professor of English at the University of North Florida, where he offers courses in American and African Diaspora literatures, along with seminars in Atlantic Studies, the Dirty South, and the transcultural poetics of creolization. His most recent book is Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways: Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-creole Authority (U of [End Page 223] Georgia). Other works include Reading Africa into American Literature (U of Kentucky), two volumes of poetry, and various scholarly articles published in the U.S., the Bahamas, Curaçao, Jamaica, and England.
Rain P. Cranford Goméz is the former Sutton Doctoral Candidate Fellow in Literary and Cultural Studies at University of Oklahoma, having recently completed her Ph.D. She won the 2009 First Book Award Poetry for Smoked Mullet Cornbread Crawdad Memory (Mongrel Empire Press, 2012) from Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas. Her dissertation is titled Gumbo Banaha Stories: Louisiana Indigeneity and the Transnational South, and focuses on Indian and Creole textual survivance narratives within Southern literatures. Academic and creative work may be found in: American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Louisiana Folklife Journal, Yellow Medicine Review, Tidal Basin Review, SING: Indigenous Poetry of the Americas, Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence, Good Medicine: An Anthology of Native American Humor, and many more.
Gregory Helmick is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of North Florida, where he teaches courses on Hispanic Caribbean and U.S. Hispanic literatures and cultures. He is currently investigating the rhetoric of music and versions of nation in historical fiction by Junot Díaz, Yvonne Denis Rosario, and Edgardo Rodríguez-Juliá.
Rob McLoone is a lecturer in the English department at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he teaches courses in early American literature. He is currently working on his book project, The Enchanted Plantation, which examines the intersection of literature, economic speculation, and plantation development in early eighteenth-century Virginia.
Robert Rea teaches courses in American literature at the University of Mississippi. His research focuses on literature and music from the American South. He is currently working on a book-length manuscript on Tennessee Williams.
Raquel González Rivas is a medical writer and health care communications consultant with a special interest in doctor-patient narratives. She worked for Mayo Clinic for 15 years before transferring to Baptist Health, Jacksonville, Florida. She has worked as a newspaper reporter in both...
