Contributors
- Contributors
Nneka D. Dennie is an assistant professor of African American history at Washington and Lee University. She is a black feminist scholar with specializations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century black women's intellectual thought. Dennie earned her PhD in African American studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and her BA in political science at Williams College. Dennie's first monograph, Redefining Radicalism: The Rise of Black Feminism and the Politics of Respectability in the Nineteenth Century, is under contract. This project is an intellectual history of nineteenth-century black radical women. Dennie is the cofounder and president of the Black Women's Studies Association.
Anne Donlon has a PhD in English with a certificate in American studies from the Graduate Center, CUNY. She has published or has work forthcoming in PMLA, Modernism/modernity, Lateral, and the Massachusetts Review on writing and activism in the 1920s and 1930s in the United States, Britain, and Spain. She edited a volume of previously unpublished correspondence and poems, Langston Hughes, Nancy Cunard, and Louise Thompson: Poetry, Politics, and Friendship in the Spanish Civil War (2012). She also writes about the intersection of archives and digital scholarship. She is currently project manager for digital initiatives at the Modern Language Association.
Megan Feifer is a PhD candidate in English with a minor in women's and gender studies at Louisiana State University. Her research and teaching addresses Afro-Caribbean diasporas in the United States, multiethnic literatures, postcolonial literature and theory, and feminist theories. Her dissertation research examines the collective counter-archival project created in the essays, fiction, and nonfiction work of authors Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, and Junot Díaz. She is co-editor of a volume titled Narrating History, Home, and Nation: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat, forthcoming from University Press of Mississippi. Finally, she is the co-founding president of the Edwidge Danticat Society.
Aria S. Halliday is assistant professor of Africana feminisms at the University of New Hampshire. Halliday's research explores contemporary U.S. and Caribbean representations of Black women and girls in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She specializes in representations created by Black women and girls that explore ideas of race, gender, sexuality, beauty, and consumerism in popular culture. She is the editor of The Black Girlhood Studies Collection (2019). Her work is featured in Cultural Studies, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, Girlhood Studies, and several edited collections.
Channon S. Miller is an assistant professor of history at the University of San Diego. She received her PhD in American studies from Boston University in 2017, where she was a Whitney M. Young Jr. Fellow. Miller's work concerns itself with the diasporic dimensions of African American women's marginality and resistance from the 1980s forward. She aims to extend the timeline of our understanding of this group's historical traditions of boundary crossing, exiling, and returning to the post–civil rights generations. Miller's current work-inprogress follows the mutual, boundary crossings of African American, African immigrant, and Afro-Caribbean immigrant mothers and the homeplaces that result. Miller is a native of Hartford, Connecticut—the city plays a prominent role in her research.
Maxine Montgomery is a professor of English at Florida State University, specializing in Africana literary and cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, and contemporary black women's fiction. She is the author or editor of six books: The Apocalypse in African American Fiction (1996); Conversations With Gloria Naylor (2004); The Fiction of Gloria Naylor: Houses and Spaces of Resistance (2011); Contested Boundaries: New Critical Essays on the Fiction of Toni Morrison (2013); Conversations with Edwidge Danticat (2017); and Meditations on Race, Culture, and History: New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's God Help the Child (forthcoming). Her articles have appeared in scholarly journals such as African American Review, College Language Association Journal, The South Carolina Review, The Journal of Black Studies, and The Literary Griot. Currently, she is at work on a book-length investigation of post-apocalypticism as a subgenre of the speculative mode in black female literary and expressive culture.
