Contributors
- Contributors
Li Yun Alvarado (liyun@liyunalvarado.com) is the author of the chapbook Words or Water (Finishing Line P, 2016). Her scholarly interests include Latina/o literature and postcolonial studies. Her work has appeared in Arizona Quarterly, CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education (U of Nebraska P, 2014), and Chicana / Latina Studies: The Journal of MALCS, among others. She has served as the Senior Poetry Editor for Kweli Journal and is an alumna of VONA. A poet and independent scholar, she is committed to amplifying underrepresented voices while supporting aspiring and emerging writers through her work as a writer, educator, and advocate. More on her work can be found at www.liyunalvarado.com.
Stephen Casmier (stephen.casmier@slu.edu) is an associate professor of English at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. He teaches courses in African American and postcolonial literature. His research interests include jazz, African American literature and expressive culture, representations of race in the media, and contemporary and twentieth-century African American literature. In addition to publishing essays and articles in these areas, he is a member of the John Edgar Wideman Society of the American Literature Association.
Daniel Chaskes (daniel.chaskes@limcollege.edu) is assistant professor of English and Chair of the Department of Arts and Sciences at LIM College, where he teaches courses in African American literature, contemporary world literature, and modernism. His writing has appeared in Journal of Modern Literature, Comparative Literature and Culture, Modern Fiction Studies, and American Literature. He earned his MA in Modern Culture from University College London and a PhD in English from the University of British Columbia.
Paul T. Corrigan (ptcorrigan@gmail.com) teaches writing and literature at Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida. His essays on poetry and spirituality appear in Sewanee Theological Review, Literature and Belief, Christianity and Literature, and other places. His interview with the poet Li-Young Lee appears in Image. He has in the works a book on post-secular contemporary American poetry. He lives in the Peace River Watershed, where he walks to work. More on his work can be found at paultcorrigan. com.
Allison Curseen (curseen@bc.edu) is an assistant professor at Boston College. She researches and teaches African American and nineteenth-century American literature and culture with particular interests in performance, childishness, and unruly bodies. Her current project contextualizes antebellum depictions of childish physical movements within the context of mid-nineteenth-century anxieties about Blackness, bondage, growing bodies, and national development. Focusing particularly on African American narratives, the project examines how the performance and poetics of unruly childish movement might trouble the way we read narrative images of black uplift, personhood, and freedom. Most recently, her work has appeared in the March 2018 issue of American Literature and the edited collection Saving the World: Girlhood and Evangelicalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Routledge, 2017).
Dory Fox (doryfox@umich.edu) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, where she is also a certificate candidate in the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. Her research focus is Jewish American literature in English and in Yiddish. She is writing her dissertation on the impact of biological theories of evolution and inheritance in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Jewish American literature and culture.
Fred Gardaphe (Fred.Gardaphe@qc.cuny.edu) is Distinguished Professor of English and Italian American studies at Queens College, CUNY and the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute. His books include Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative (Duke UP, 1996), Dagoes Read: Tradition and the Italian/American Writer (Guernica, 1996), Moustache Pete is Dead: Evviva Baffo Pietro! (Bordighera, 1997), Leaving Little Italy: Essaying Italian American Culture (State U of New York P, 2003), From Wiseguys to Wise Men: The Gangster and Italian American Masculinities (Routledge, 2006), and The Art of Reading Italian Americana: Italian American Culture in Review (Bordighera, 2011). He is past president of MELUS (2003-06 and 2007-09) and winner of the MELUS Award for Distinguished Contribution to Ethnic Studies (2014).
Aston Gonzalez (aagonzalez@salisbury.edu) is an assistant professor of history at Salisbury University. His areas...
