Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Armen G. Alexandrian is a captain with the sheriff’s office in Lafayette, Louisiana. He was born and raised there and spends his spare time on photography and travel.
Richard L. Bland is a courtesy research archaeologist at the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History. His fieldwork has dealt with the prehistory of the Arctic/ Subarctic and Oregon and the history of Russian America. His published works on these regions amount to over 150 monographs, book chapters, and journal articles, focusing primarily on translation. Traugott Bromme’s work was published during the Russian-American period.
Sandra Russell Clark lives and works in New Orleans. She was director of photography at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans from 1980 to 1985. Her works are included in museum, corporate, and private collections and have been exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. Her book of photographs, Elysium, A Gathering of Souls, New Orleans Cemeteries (Louisiana State UP, 1997), received the 1997 Mary Ellen LoPresti Award for Excellence in Art Publishing from the Art Libraries Society of North America.
Susan Castillo Street is a Louisiana expatriate and academic who lives in the Sussex. She is Harriet Beecher Stowe Professor Emeritus, King’s College, University of London, and has published two collections of poems: The Candlewoman’s Trade (Diehard, 2003) and Abiding Chemistry (Aldrich, 2015). In addition, her poems have appeared in The Missing Slate, The Stare’s Nest, Ink Sweat & Tears, Nutshells and Nuggets, I Am Not a Silent Poet, Snakeskin, Literature Today, York Mix and other reviews. She is a member of three poetry groups: 52, Goat, and High Wealden Poets.
Plínio de Góes Jr. is a professor of Portuguese studies at the Saab-Pedroso Center for Portuguese Culture and Research at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He received his doctorate from Harvard University, his law degree from Emory law, and his bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Michigan. His research focuses on religious and social movements in Portuguese-speaking nations.
Alison Fields is the Mary Lou Milner Carver Professor of Art of the American West and assistant professor of art history at the University of Oklahoma. She has published articles in The Public Historian, American Indian Quarterly, and American Studies, and is co-author of Picher, Oklahoma: Catastrophe, Memory, and Trauma (U of Oklahoma P, 2016).
Jeanne L. Gillespie is professor of Spanish at The University of Southern Mississippi. She is fascinated by the oral tradition and the power of stories. She has been listening to the voices of the Isleño community since 1995, when she won a research award from the Center for Regional Studies at Southeastern Louisiana University. She has published on Spanish and Portuguese colonial literary and cultural studies, indigenous voices preserved in the Iberian colonial archives, and innovative pedagogies and interdisciplinary inquiry.
Mélanie Grué is a temporary teaching and research fellow at Université Paris-Est Créteil, where she teaches literature, translation, and English for specialists of other disciplines. Her fields of research include Dorothy Allison’s works, resistance and minority literature, literary representations of the body, gender, and queer studies. Her publications include “Trauma and [End Page 206] Survival in Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina, or the Power of Alternative Stories” (Trauma Narratives and Herstory, edited by Silvia Pellicer-Ortin & Sonya Andermahr, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); “‘Bearers of babies, burdens, and contempt’: Reclaiming the Female Body in Dorothy Allison’s Testimonial Writing” (National Taiwan University Studies in Language and Literature, 2013); and “The Internal Other: Dorothy Allison’s White Trash” (Otherness: Essays and Studies 4.2, 2014).
Benjamin Hoffmann is assistant professor of early modern French studies at The Ohio State University. He is the author of numerous articles on eighteenth-century French literature and of four novels published by Éditions Bastingage and Éditions Gallimard. He has completed a book on French writers who traveled to the United States at the end of the eighteenth century (L’Amérique posthume, forthcoming with Éditions Classiques Garnier), as well as two critical editions of Lezay-Marnésia’s Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio (1792), to be published in...
