Contributors
- Contributors
Regina N. Bradley is an Assistant Professor of African American Literature at Armstrong State University and alumna Nasir Jones HipHop Fellow at Harvard University. Her research interests include race and sound studies, hip hop studies, and the post-Civil Rights American South. She is currently finishing her first academic book, Chronicling Stankonia: OutKast and the Rise of the Hip Hop South. Dr. Bradley can be reached at www.redclayscholar.com.
Jennifer Brandt is an assistant professor of English and the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at High Point University. Her research focus is identity and contemporary narrative, and she is the co-author of An Introduction to US Popular Culture: People, Power, and Politics.
Andrew Connolly is an instructor at Trinity College in the University of Toronto. He has published articles in CEA Critic, American Periodicals, and the Canadian Review of American Studies. He completed his doctorate in English at Carleton University, and his dissertation examined Pentecostal deconversion narratives. His current research examines the marketing and promotion of books as “spiritual.”
Jaydn DeWald is a writer, teacher, musician, and the author of two forthcoming chapbooks, The Rosebud Variations: And Other Variations (Greying Ghost, 2017) and In Whose Hand the Light Expires (Yellow Flag Press, 2017). His poems, stories, and critical essays have appeared in Best New Poets 2015, Fairy Tale Review, Poet Lore, West Branch, Writing on the Edge (WOE), and many others. He lives with his partner and two kids in Bogart, Georgia, where he’s pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Georgia.
Joo Ok Kim is Assistant Professor of American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Kansas. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Asian American Studies and Verge: Studies in Global Asias. Her book project, Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean War, examines the racial legacies of the Korean War through Chicano cultural production and U.S. archives of white supremacy.
Wanda Raiford PhD, JD is an associate director of Florida International University’s Undergraduate Writing Program. She currently working on her first book, Race, Women, and the Law: Representations of Black Women’s Resistive Violence. [End Page 142]
Leslie E. Wingard (B.A., Spelman College and Ph.D., UCLA) is Associate Professor of English at the College of Wooster in Ohio. Her book manuscript under contract with University of Georgia Press is entitled The Sacred and Secular Reconciled: Productive Dissonances in Black Literature and Culture. She has held research and teaching fellowships at Williams College, Princeton University, and Haverford College. Her writings have also appeared in Religion & Literature, Religion and the Arts, and American Quarterly. [End Page 143]
