Our Contributors
- Our Contributors
lesley erin bartlett is an assistant professor of English at Iowa State University, where she specializes in composition and rhetoric and women’s and gender studies. Her work on pedagogical performance has appeared in Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education and JAEPL: The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning.
nadine boulay, Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Simon Fraser University, studies gender and sexual diversity from an historical perspective.
elizabeth currans is an associate professor and the interim department head of women’s and gender studies at Eastern Michigan University. Her book Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers: Women Transform Public Space (University of Illinois Press, 2017) explores how participants in public demonstrations organized and attended primarily by women claim and remake public spaces. Recent publications appear in Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, Feminist Formations, Social Justice, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Obsidian, Journal of Lesbian Studies, and Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies. Her new research examines performances (bicycle rides, protests, music festivals, performance art, sculpture parks) in edge spaces, sites where the urban and natural encounter each other.
lindsay goldman recently graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts from Portland State University. During her time as an undergraduate, she focused her academic work on intersectional gender studies and the literary and visual arts. She is committed to exploring the crossover of these disciplines, as shown in her most recent work on her senior thesis, “She Calls Me Blue,” a creative first-person narrative that is available by contacting the author.
sharalyn jordan, assistant professor, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, studies gender and sexual minorities, with a particular focus on immigrants and racialized populations.
wendy k. kolmar is a professor of English and the director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Drew University. She teaches courses on feminist theory and the history of feminist thought, Victorian literature, women and literature, Gothic and supernatural literature, and film and literary criticism. She is the coeditor of Feminist Theory: A Reader as well as volumes on American women’s ghost stories and gender and film.
jennifer marchbank, professor, Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, Simon Fraser University, studies gender and sexual minorities, with a particular focus on LGBTQ youth.
michelle martin-baron is an assistant professor of women’s studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She earned her PhD degree from UC Berkeley in performance studies with a designated emphasis in women, gender, and sexuality. Her research examines public art, ritual, and performance practice in relation to national belonging. Her work has been published in Women and Performance, Quarterly Horse, The International Journal of Feminist Politics, and the collection Queer Necropolitics (Routledge, 2015). She has articles forthcoming in Chicana/Latina Studies and Callaloo.
holly masturzo is a professor of humanities at Florida State College at Jacksonville. Her approaches to teaching are highlighted in the collections Third Mind: Creative Writing & Visual Art, The Alphabet of the Trees: A Guide to Nature Writing, and Teaching with Fire: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Teach. A recipient of an Established Artist Fellowship from the Houston Arts Alliance, her creative work has appeared in Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, the Arts, and Humanities, Voices of Italian Americana, and at a variety of performance venues. She also serves on the board of directors of Jacksonville Dance Theatre.
musonda mwango is a fourth-year student at Portland State University pursuing a bachelor of arts in international and global studies. He has a passion for the formulation of policies that will help address the racial disparities in incarceration rates and the economic advancement of marginalized people and groups. This is evidenced in his volunteer work in several nongovernmental organizations, such as Elevated Family, Liberation Literacy, KBOO Community Radio, and One Big Family. He plans on pursuing graduate studies in public policy. He is also an avid multi-instrumentalist and a staple in the local music scene.
sharifa patel is a PhD candidate in English and cultural studies at McMaster University. Her work examines Canadian media print representations of men of color broadly, and Muslim men specifically. She examines how men...
