Contributors
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Salam Al-Mahadin is the Dean of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research and a professor of translation studies at Middle East University in Amman, Jordan. Her research has focused on the politics of national identity, translation as a philosophical activity, and gender issues in the Arab world, especially in the media.
Dany Batchelor is a student at the University of Northern Colorado majoring in English secondary education with an emphasis in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. She has been drawing comics since the beginning of the pandemic. She would like to thank her mom, for buying the sketchbooks and pens that inspired her to draw, and her sister, Bailey, for helping prepare her comic for publication. Dany loves her family very much and could not imagine being mandated to stay at home with anyone else.
Maxi-Ann Campbell received her M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Georgia State University. She presently teaches academic writing and oral communication at Duke Kunshan University in Suzhou, China, to graduate and undergraduate students. Her research focuses on methods for improving native speakers’ attitudes toward and comprehension of nonnative speech. She also works as a teacher trainer, examining best practices for teaching English as a Foreign Language. She is coauthor of the third edition of More than a Native Speaker.
Jeffrey Cass is the Dean of Arts and Humanities and a professor of English at Arkansas Tech University. He has published widely in the area of Romantic women writers and Orientalism. His most recent essays are “’The Theater of Real Life’: Godwin’s Mandeville and Milton’s A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle” (in European Romantic Review) and “John Galt: Capitalism and Ecology” (in Wordsworth Circle). Additionally, he has co-edited two collections, Interrogating Orientalism and Romantic Border Crossings.
Kenneth Chan is a professor of English at the University of Northern Colorado. Specializing in film studies, he is the author of two books: Yonfan’s Bugis Street (Hong Kong UP, 2015) and Remade in Hollywood: The Global Chinese Presence in Transnational Cinemas (Hong Kong UP, 2009). He is also the co-editor of a forthcoming book, Sino-Enchantment: The Fantastic in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas (Edinburgh UP). His latest research project focuses on the posthuman and the fantastic in contemporary film and media.
Emmanuelle S. Chiocca is an assistant professor of applied linguistics and culture at Duke Kunshan University in Suzhou, China. She received her Ph.D. in Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum from the University of Oklahoma, and her research focuses on the intersection of language learning and teaching, intercultural competence development, and perspective transformation, with a particular focus on global education contexts.
Erin Clair is the Director of Operations of the College of Arts and Humanities, the Director of General Education, and an associate professor of English at Arkansas Tech University. She is especially concerned with student success in core curriculum courses and with faculty issues related to happiness, including her recent work on the Joy Project at ATU, a version of which she gave at the 2019 New Orleans CEA Conference. She is also concerned with feminist issues and has reviewed books for Feminist Formations, The Journal of The Midwest Modern Language Association, and Rocky Mountain Review.
Amy Cummins is professor of English in the Department of Literatures and Cultural Studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Her essay, “Teaching Texas Borderlands Young Adult Literature,” appeared in the collection, Teaching Young Adult Literature (2020), part of the Modern Language Association’s Options for Teaching series.
Laura J. Davies is a lecturer of English language at Duke Kunshan University. She holds an M.A. in TESOL with Applied Linguistics and a Cambridge University Postgraduate Diploma in TESOL (DELTA), specializing in higher-education English-language teaching management. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). Her research interests include employability in English language curricula, socio-pragmatics, and assessment.
Kelly Norman Ellis is an associate professor of English, Department Chair, and Director of the M.F.A. in Creative Writing Program at Chicago State University. She is the author of two collections of poetry: Offerings of Desire and Tougaloo Blues. She is also co-editor of Spaces Between Us...
