Contributors
- Contributors
Kai Hang Cheang (kai.cheang@email.ucr.edu) is a PhD candidate in English at the University of California, Riverside. His research interests include transpacific culture and Asian American literature with a focus on genre and affect. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in Journal of American Studies, Pacific Coast Philology, Gender Forum, and Social Text Online. He is also a reviewer for the website Asian American Literature Fans.
Margo Culley (culley@crocker.com) is professor of English emerita from the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she taught with Professor Skerrett for decades. She taught American studies and women's studies with an emphasis on autobiographical literature. She is the author or editor of several books, including A Day at A Time: Diary Literature of American Women (Feminist P, 1985), Gendered Subjects: The Dynamics of Feminist Teaching with Catherine Portuges (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985), and the Norton Critical Edition of Kate Chopin's The Awakening, recently published in its third edition. In 1995, she was awarded the University's Distinguished Teaching Award "in recognition of outstanding teaching accomplishments."
SallyAnn H. Ferguson (shfergus@ung.edu) is a two-time president of MELUS and author of the forthcoming book, Charles W. Chesnutt's Literary Darwinism.
Chris A. Eng (ceng02@syr.edu) is an assistant professor of English and the Emerson Faculty Fellow at Syracuse University, where he teaches courses in US ethnic literatures, American studies, diaspora, performance studies, and studies of gender and sexuality. He received his PhD in English from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is currently working on his book project, "States of Provisionality: Improvising Queer Extravagance in Asian American Camps." His writings have appeared in Journal of Asian American Studies, Lateral, Theatre Journal, and Women & Performance.
Christina Garcia Lopez (cglopez3@usfca.edu) is an assistant professor of literature in the English Department at the University of San Francisco, where she also directs the Chican@-Latin@ Studies Program. She received her PhD in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, with a portfolio in Mexican American Studies. Her forthcoming book with University of Arizona Press is titled, Calling the Soul Back: Embodied Spirituality in Chicanx Narrative. She also has publications in the Journal of Transnational American Studies and in the edited collection, (Re)Mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape: New Works and New Directions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
A Yęmisi Jimoh (jimoh@afroam.umass.edu) is a professor of African American studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her scholarship and teaching focus on African American literature and culture, and her scholarship in the field includes publishing scholarly articles and coediting scholarly collections on African American cultural and literary topics and figures such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, and African Americans responding to war and citizenship. She is the author of the monograph, Spiritual, Blues, and Jazz People in African American Fiction: Living in Paradox (U of Tennessee P, 2002). She also was a colleague of Joe Skerrett at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and in MELUS. Joe published her first substantial scholarly article and shared many fine meals with her at conferences and great food with her and others at holiday gatherings in his home. He also taught her how to cook cob corn in the microwave.
Ava Landry (alisaac@umass.edu) is a graduate student in the Sociology Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She received a bachelor's degree in Sociology and Chemistry from the State University of New York at Geneseo. She is interested in race, ethnicity, and identity formation.
John Wharton Lowe (jwlowe@uga.edu) is Barbara Methvin Professor of English and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Georgia. He is author or editor of nine books, including Calypso Magnolia: The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature (U of North Carolina P, 2016), which received the 2017 C. Hugh Holman Prize from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. He has two books in production: Approaches to Teaching Gaines's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Other Works (coedited with Herman Beavers) and Summoning Our Saints: The Poetry and Prose of Brenda Marie Osbey. He is currently writing the...
