Contributors
- Contributors
Frederick Luis Aldama is is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English & University Distinguished Scholar at The Ohio State University where he is also founder and director of the Latino outreach, engagement, and research enrichment center known as LASER. He specializes in Latino and Latin American literature, comic books, and film—and pop culture generally. He is the author, co-author, and editor of twenty-four books, including recently Latino/a Literature in the Classroom: Twenty-First Century Approaches to Teaching (Routledge, 2015). He is editor of two book series, Latino Pop Culture as well as Latino and Latin American Profiles. He coedits an additional three book series: Global Latino/a Americas, Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture, and World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction. He is a member of the standing board for the Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies.
Carolyn M. Cunningham is Assistant Professor in the Masters Program in Communication and Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University. She is the editor of Social Networking and Impression Management: Self-Presentation in the Digital Age (Lexington Books, 2012). Her research on gender and technology has been published in New Media & Society and the Journal of Children and Media.
Sarah Evans is Associate Professor of the History of Contemporary Art at Northern Illinois University. She earned her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and held post-doctoral fellowships in Berkeley’s College of Letters and Science, and at Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities. She is the author of “There’s No Place Like Hallwalls: Alternative-Space Installations in an Artists’ Community,” Oxford Art Journal, 2009.
Cynthia G. Franklin is is Professor of English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and coeditor of Biography. She is the author of Writing Women’s Communities: The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Multi-Genre Anthologies (U of Wisconsin P, 1997) and Academic Lives: Memoir, Cultural Theory and the University Today (U of Georgia P, 2009).
Dmitri Kalugin studied at the University of Tartu and currently teaches literature at the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg. His published work includes a monograph on the cultural significance of biographical narratives in eighteenth-nineteenth century Russia, entitled Proza zhizni (St. Petersburg: European University Press, 2014). [End Page 461]
Ioana Luca is an Associate Professor at the National Taiwan Normal University, where she teaches American studies, American literature, life writing, memory studies and introduction to Western literature. Her publications include articles in Social Text, Rethinking History, Prose Studies, Biography, European Journal of Life Writing, and Journal of American Studies, as well as chapters in several edited volumes. She is the recipient of several research grants (Fulbright, OSI/Chevening at Oxford University, Humanities Research Center at Australian National University) as well as the Academia Sinica research award for junior scholars (2015).
Amir Maravasti is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Penn State Altoona. His areas of research include social psychology, race and ethnicity, and qualitative methods. He is the author of several books including Being Homeless: Textual and Narrative Constructions (Lexington Books, 2003) and Qualitative Research in Sociology (Sage, 2003).
Joanny Moulin is a Professor of English Literature at Aix-Marseille and a biographer. He is currently involved in a research program on the theory of biography. His most recent publications include edited journal issues—Lives of the Poets: Poetry and Biography (Études Anglaises 66.4), Towards Biography Theory (Cercles 35, www.cercles.com)—and a forthcoming biography, Élisabeth Ière la reine de fer (Éditions du Cerf, 2015). Current call for papers: Great Biographers (The Great Historical Figures in Art and Literature http://figures-historiques.revue.univ-lille3.fr/).
Benito Quintana is Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, where his research and teaching focuses on Spanish classical theater and literature, Spanish colonial and postcolonial culture, transatlantic studies, and Mexican culture. He is the author, most recently, of a new edition of Francisco González de Bustos’s Los españoles en Chile (1665) (Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 2012).
Edward Saunders is a researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biography...
