Contributors
- Contributors
Kanishka Chowdhury (k9chowdhury@stthomas.edu) is professor of English and director of the American Culture and Difference Program at the University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in globalization, postcolonial studies, and cultural theory. He is the author of The New India: Citizenship, Subjectivity, and Economic Liberalization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and pieces in journals such as College Literature, Cultural Critique, Mediations, Modern Fiction Studies, and Science & Society.
Martha J. Cutter (martha.cutter@uconn.edu) is a professor of English and Africana studies at the University of Connecticut. From 2006 to 2014 she served as editor-in-chief of MELUS, and from 2004 to 2006 she was the editor of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. Her first book, Unruly Tongue: Language and Identity in American Women’s Writing, was published by the University of Mississippi Press in 1999, and her second book, Lost and Found in Translation: Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language Diversity, was published in 2005 by the University of North Carolina Press. She has also published over thirty articles on American multi-ethnic literature. She is currently working on two book projects, one on illustrated antislavery books and another on the literary history of racial passing.
Brittney Edmonds (bedmonds@princeton.edu) is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at Princeton University, where she is currently finishing a dissertation titled Consuming Blackness: Buying and Selling Race in Contemporary African-American Literature, which examines the relationship between economies of consumption and constructions of black racial identity and agency.
Stephanie Farrar (farrarsm@uwec.edu) teaches in the English Department and is an affiliate in Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Her research and teaching focus on nineteenth-century and modernist American literature. She is co-editing Emily Dickinson in Her Own Time (University of Iowa Press, 2016) with Jane Donahue Eberwein and Cristanne [End Page 221] Miller and is working on a monograph tentatively titled Maternity, Masculinity, and the Rhetoric of Rights in American Civil War Poetry.
Ian Green (igreen@gc.cuny.edu) is a doctoral student in the English Department at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and an instructor of English at Baruch College in New York. He received his Master’s degree in American literature from New York University in 2012. Currently, he studies the uncanny in literary representations of capital and religious conversion in early American and Atlantic literatures. He previously wrote for New York Arts Magazine and the San Juan Star newspaper. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Anne Mai Yee Jansen (ajansen@unca.edu) is an assistant professor in the Department of Literature and Language at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. She holds a PhD in English from the Ohio State University, where her dissertation focused on magical realism. Her current research examines the politics of form in twentieth- and twenty-first-century US ethnic literature, the relationship between literature and activism, and institutions of power. Her work explores how authors of color in the United States work within nonmainstream literary traditions (such as science fiction), using generic conventions to interrogate social injustice.
A Yęmisi Jimoh (jimoh@afroam.umass.edu) is the president (2012-15) of MELUS and is on the faculty of the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her scholarship and teaching focus on twentieth-century African American literature and culture, with an emphasis on narrative. Her publications include articles in scholarly journals, the monograph Spiritual Blues and Jazz People in African American Fiction (University of Tennessee Press, 2002), and the forthcoming edited volume These Truly Are the Brave: An Anthology of African American Writings on War and Citizenship.
Kelly Baker Josephs (kjosephs@york.cuny.edu) is associate professor of English at York College, City University of New York. She is the author of Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (University of Virginia Press, 2013) and editor of sx salon: a small axe literary platform.
Nancy Kang (nkang@ubalt.edu) is assistant professor of multicultural and diaspora literatures at the University of Baltimore. She...
