Notes on Contributors

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Essayists Kimberly Rae Connor, an Associate Professor at the University of San Francisco, holds a Ph.D. in religion and literature from the University of Virginia. She is author of Conversions and Visions in the Writings ofAfrican American Women (Tennessee 1994) and Imagining Grace: Liberating Theologiesin the Slave Narrative Tradition (Illinois 2000), and many articles on African American religious lifeand culturalproduction and multicultural pedagogy. She is editor of the Academy Series, a joint publishing venture of the American Academy of Religion and Oxford University Press. John Netland is Department Chair and Professor of English at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. His scholarly articles on Shusaku Endo as well as British Victorian and Romantic literature have appeared in Christianity & Literature, Victorian Poetry, Victorian Institute Journal, Christian Scholars Review, and other venues. Graham Pechey has published numerous essays on William Blake, Mikhail Bakhtin, colonial writing, and the theological bearings of literary works. Now retired, he teaches English part-time at the University of Cambridge and serves as an Associate of the Centre of African Studies. His book, Mikhail Bakhtin: The Word in the World was published in April 2007. Kevin Rulo is a doctoral candidate in English at the Catholic University of America. His research interests include periodization of literary history, literary theory, and the religion and literature interface. He is currently at work on a project concerning the relationship between modernism and satire. Poets Patricia S. Cook has written poems that have appeared in the e-zine Thick With Conviction and in the chapbook South Street Poets. She is working on a book collection slated to be published by Trinity House Publishers. 173 174 CHRISTIANITY AND LITERATURE Todd Davis teaches creative writing, environmental studies, and American literature at Penn State University's Altoona College. His poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, have won the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, and recently have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, and Green Mountains Review. He is the author of three books of poems, The Least ofThese (Michigan State University Press, expected release in January 2010), Some Heaven (Michigan State University Press, 2007), and Ripe (Bottom Dog Press, 2002). Joanna Kurowska is Senior Lecturer in Polish at the University of Chicago. She has taught at Loyola University, Chicago, and at Summer Workshop at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Her Polish poems appeared in a number of magazines, including Kultura in Paris. Her two books of poetry, Sciana (The Wall, 1997) and Obok (Near, 1999) were published in Poland. Her English poems have appeared in The Penwood Review, International Poetry Review, and Concise Delight. Jeff Lacey is a writing teacher at Ralston High School in Ralston, Nebraska. His poetry has appeared in The Oakland Review, and he has been awarded the Oscar C. Macellaio Poetry Prize from Creighton University. Except for one year in Tucson, Arizona, he has lived in Nebraska his entire life. John Milbury-Steen currently teaches English as a Second Language. His work has been published in Blue Unicorn, Centrifugal Eye, The Deronda Review, Lucid Rhythms, Dark Horse and many other magazines. ...