Our Contributors
- Our Contributors
analisa degrave is a professor of Spanish in the department of languages at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. She received her PhD and MA degrees in Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She teaches Spanish, Latin American literature, and Latin American studies, and she participates in the faculty-led immersion program Women's Lives and Experiences in Nicaragua.
laurie fuller is a professor of women's and gender studies at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago.
alexandra gold is a doctoral candidate in English at Boston University. She is currently working on a dissertation that considers midcentury American poets Frank O'Hara and Robert Creeley's collaborations with the contemporary visual arts. She has taught courses in poetry, writing composition, and women's, gender, and sexuality studies.
heidi m. hanrahan, amy l. dewitt, and sally m. brasher teach, respectively, English, sociology, and history, at Shepherd University, and they team-teach Introduction to Women's Studies.
corey hickner-johnson is a doctoral candidate in English and gender, women's, and sexuality studies at the University of Iowa.
theresa d. kemp is a professor of English and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. She is also a member of the Feminist Teacher Editorial Collective.
carmen kynard is an associate professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), where she interrogates race and the politics of writing instruction. She has taught high school with the New York City public schools/Coalition of Essential Schools, served as a writing program administrator, and worked as a teacher educator. She has led numerous research and professional development projects focused on language, literacy, and learning and has published in Harvard Educational Review, Changing English, College Composition [End Page 243] and Communication, College English, Computers and Composition, Reading Research Quarterly, and more. Her first book, Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacy Studies won the 2015 James Britton Award and makes Black Freedom a twenty-first-century literacy movement. Her current project focuses on Black female college students' literacies and learning as critical sites of recursive memory. Carmen traces her research and teaching at her website, "Education, Liberation, and Black Radical Traditions" (carmenkynard.org).
barbara lesavoy is the director of and faculty in the Women and Gender Studies Program at the College at Brock-port (SUNY) where she teaches Feminist Theory; Global Perspectives on Women and Gender; Gender, Race, and Class; and Senior Seminar in Women and Gender. Her research and publication areas include women's global human rights, sex and gender in literature and popular culture, intersectionality and educational equity/success, and women's stories as feminist standpoint. LeSavoy serves as lead faculty for a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) project that supports a global classroom linking students at the College at Brockport in New York and Novgorod State University in Russia and also teaches a summer Women and Gender Studies Seminar at the New York Institute of Linguistics, Cognition, and Culture (NYI) at St Petersburg University in St. Petersburg, Russia. LeSavoy is the recipient of Brockport's 2012–2013 Academic Advising Award, 2012–2013 Outstanding Service to Students Award, 2013–2014 Diversity Engagement Award, and 2014–2015 Scholarly Engagement Award.
gada mahrouse is an associate professor at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, where she teaches and researches in the areas of critical race studies, cultural studies, transnational feminist and post/de-colonial theories. Her first book, entitled Conflicted Commitments: Race, Privilege, and Power in Transnational Solidarity Activism, focuses on the challenges of solidarity across asymmetrical power racialized relations (McGill-Queens University Press, 2014).
lisa jean moore is a professor of sociology and gender studies at Purchase College, SUNY.
ann russo is an associate professor and graduate program director of women's and gender studies, peace, justice, and conflict studies at DePaul University, Chicago. [End Page 244]
