Our Contributors
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Kimberly Creasap is a visiting lecturer of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches courses related to gender, sexuality, feminist theory, and social change. In 2012, she won the Elizabeth Baranger Teaching Award at the University of Pittsburgh to recognize the pedagogical innovation of the zine project. Her current research focuses on social change, temporality, media history, and gender in Sweden.
Susan Hillock is an associate professor in the School of Social Work, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus.
Katie Hogan is the director of women’s and gender studies and a professor of English at UNC Charlotte. She is the author and coeditor of several books on gender, race, and the culture of AIDS and has several publications on the interconnection between homophobia and place as an environmental injustice.
T. Christine Jespersen is a professor of English at Western State Colorado University, where she teaches a broad range of courses. Her research interests include gender studies, environmental justice literature, and literatures of globalization. She is coeditor of The Anatomy of Body Worlds and most recently has published an article on Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms.
Shenila Khoja-Moolji is a research fellow and doctoral candidate at Columbia University’s Teachers College. Her research interests include muslim masculinities and femininities, immigrant youth, and discourses of girls’ education and their entanglement with imperialism. Prior to Columbia University, Khoja-Moolji attended the Divinity School at Harvard University, where she graduated with a Masters of Theological Studies focusing on islamic studies and gender. Her work has appeared in Gender and Education, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and Journal of Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, as well as in the form of several book chapters. She has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses on muslim cultures, gender, humanities, interfaith relations, and social foundations of education. [End Page 242]
April Lidinsky is an associate professor and the director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at IU South Bend. Her expertise is feminist theory, women’s autobiography, the transatlantic nineteenth century, and creative nonfiction. She serves as the faculty adviser to a campus-community readers’ theater project, the Michiana Monologues, contributes radio commentaries on feminist topics to WVPE, and is active in reproductive rights work in the community.
Alex Long is currently a graduate student pursuing his master’s degree in English literature at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He is anticipating beginning his PhD studies in the fall of 2015, with an emphasis on critical theory and cultural studies. His most recent work takes a theoretically diverse approach to analyzing Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, which comes as a result of a long progression of interest in working-class studies.
Rachel Stein is a professor of English and women’s studies at Siena College. She is the author of Shifting the Ground: American Women Writers’ Revisions of Nature, Gender, and Race, editor of New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism, and coeditor of The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy. Her scholarship focuses on intersections of gender, sexuality, environmental justice, and biocolonialism in literature and film.
Leslie Wilkin is a master of social work student at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus. [End Page 243]
