Contributors
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FRED D’AGUIAR teaches English at Virginia Tech, where he was Gloria D. Smith Professor (2006–2012, a rotating chair) of English. He is author of over twelve books of fiction, poetry, and plays, some of his most recent being Children of Paradise (fiction), The Rose of Toulouse (poetry), and Mr. Reasonable (drama).
ELIZABETH DE SOUZA has a background in magazine publishing and an MFA in creative writing from George Mason University, where she was awarded a teaching assistantship in 2008. Her forthcoming book, Sleeping in the Fire, uses the life of her late father, the artist and author M. Bunch Washington, to explore the relationship between art, culture, and mental health, particularly among African American men. She is a visiting scholar at Franklin & Marshall College, where she recently curated Painting with Light: The Art of Bunch Washington at the Phillips Museum. She was a finalist for the 2011 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, and more recently, her essay “The Knotty One” made finalist in Cutbank Literary Journal’s 2014 contest, and was awarded runner-up in Solstice Literary Magazine’s 2014 contest.
TOPE FOLARIN received his BA from Morehouse College and two master’s degrees from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes scholar. He made his fiction debut in Transition with “Miracle” in 2012, for which he won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013. In 2014 he was named to the Africa39 list of the most promising African writers under 40. He lives in Washington, DC.
LA DONNA L. FORSGREN is an assistant professor of theater arts at the University of Oregon, where she teaches courses in theater history, dramaturgy, and African American theater. She was awarded a Consortium for Faculty Diversity at Liberal Arts Colleges Dissertation Fellowship while completing her PhD from Northwestern University. Her forthcoming article, “‘Set Your Blackness Free’: Barbara Ann Teer’s Art and Activism During the Black Arts Movement” will be published this year in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies.
J.e. (JENNIE ELIZABETH) FRANKLIN worked with the Congress of Racial Equality. In 1964 she wrote her first play, A First Step to Freedom, for her students at the Freedom School in Carthage, Mississippi. During the Black Arts Movement (1965–1976) Franklin worked as a youth director at the Neighborhood House in Buffalo, New York (1964–1965), an analyst for the United States Office of Economic Opportunity in New York City (1967–1968), and she taught at Lehman College (1969–1975). During the 1970s Franklin became a leading female playwright for her critically acclaimed drama Black Girl (1971), later adapted into a film.
JENNIFER HARFORD VARGAS, an assistant professor of English at Bryn Mawr College, is the co-editor of Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination along with José David Saldívar and Monica Hanna (Duke UP, 2015). She has published in MELUS (Fall 2014), Latina/o Literature in the Classroom: 21st Century Approaches to Teaching (Routledge, 2015), and Colonialism, Modernity, and the Study of Literature: A View from India (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). [End Page 1277]
DAVID W. HART is an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, where he teaches courses on Anglophone Caribbean literature, world literature, and postcolonial studies. He has published in Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, Radical Teacher, Revista Mexicana del Caribe, and Postcolonial Text.
JAMEY HATLEY is a native of Memphis, Tennessee. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the Oxford American, TORCH, Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, Memphis Noir, and elsewhere. She has attended the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, VONA: Voices of Our Nation Writing Workshop, and scholarships to The Oxford American Summit for Ambitious Writers and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
BETHANY JACOBS is a postdoctoral fellow in English at the University of Oregon, where she received her PhD in 2014. She specializes in twentieth-century multiethnic US literature and maternal studies.
LORETTA JOHNSON teaches in the humanities at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Her recent publications include essays in the Journal of Modern Literature and Twentieth Century Literature. She reviews regularly for Choice: Reviews for Academic Libraries in the fields of modern American literature, African American literature, and eco-criticism...
