Notes on Contributors
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Essayists
Susan VanZanten is a Professor of English at Seattle Pacific University. Her work on Africa includes A Story of South Africa: J. M. Coetzee’s Fiction in Context (Harvard, 1991); Postcolonial Literature and the Biblical Call for Justice (Mississippi, 2004); Truth and Reconciliation: The Confessional Mode in South African Literature (Heinemann, 2002), and an interview with Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie in Image (2010). Her most recent publications are Joining the Mission: A Guide for (Mainly) New Faculty (Eerdmans, 2011) and Mending a Tattered Faith: Devotions with Dickinson (Cascade, 2010).
Grant Lilford is a lecturer in English literature at the University of Zululand. He has published on Bessie Head, Dambudzo Marechera, and Shona Myth. He is currently working on a critical translation of Thomas Mofolo’s Pitseng and on Africa’s contribution to the liberal arts and their abiding importance in the face of specialized, vocational, and utilitarian models of education.
Amar Guendozi is an Assistant Professor in English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Tizi-ouzou, Algeria. His research interests include African literature in English, Ghanaian popular fiction, and Algerian literature in French. He has written on the use of intertextuality in Ayi Kwei Armah’s novels and the proverbial aesthetic of his discourse.
William Francis Purcell teaches at Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan. His primary research interest is representations of Christianity and missions in colonial and postcolonial literatures, especially in relation to the Global South. His essays have appeared in Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, Notes on Contemporary Literature, Literature & Belief, and Studies in Literature and Christianity (Japan). He is presently working toward a study of Christianity and African literatures.
Stephen M, Szolosi is the Director of Campus Ministry at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, DC. The school’s Jesuit charism is at the heart of his work with retreats and service programs. His greatest research interests include the relationship between theology and contemporary literature and how each treats mystery and community.
Cynthia R. Wallace begins this summer as Assistant Professor of English at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan. She has published essays on contemporary literature, religion, and ethics. Her current book project discovers a paradoxical challenge to contemporary poststructuralist, theological, and feminist ethics of redemptive suffering within the literary writings of Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison, Ana Castillo, and Chimamanda Adichie.
Poets
Jessicca Daigle is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Texas Tech University. Her work appears in Rattle, Yemassee, Redivider, CALYX, So to Speak, and several other journals. Her chapbook, Always After Our Fall, won the Copperdome Press 2010 Poetry Chapbook Competition and is forthcoming from Southeast Missouri State University Press. She is an associate editor of Iron Horse Literary Review.
Inner-city Philadelphia pediatrician Kelley Jean White has returned to New Hampshire to work at a rural health center. Her poems have been widely published in journals including Exquisite Corpse, Rattle, and the Journal of the American Medical Association, and in chapbooks and books, most recently Toxic Environment (Boston Poet Press) and Two Birds in Flame, poems related to the Shakers in New Hampshire (Beech River Books).
Joseph Bathanti is the author of six books of poetry: Communion Partners; Anson County; The Feast of All Saints; This Metal, Land of Amnesia; and Restoring Sacred Art, winner of the 2010 Roanoke Chowan Award. His books include novels East Liberty and Coventry; nonfiction They Changed the State: The Legacy of North Carolina’s Visiting Artists, 1971–1995; and a collection of short stories, The High Heart. Bathanti teaches at Appalachian State University.
Devon Miller-Duggan has had poems in Rattle, Shenandoah, Margie, The Indiana Review, Harpur Palate, The Hollins Critic. She’s won an Academy of American Poets Prize, a fellowship and a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, an editor’s prize in Margie, an Honorable Mention in Rattle, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She teaches at the University of Delaware. Her first book, Pinning the Bird to the Wall, appeared from Tres Chicas Books in November 2008.
Stephen Kampa is the author of Cracks in the Invisible, winner of the 2010 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and the 2011 Florida Book Awards...
