CONTRIBUTORS

CLA JOURNAL 389 CONTRIBUTORS Barbara T. Cooper is Professor Emeritus of French at the University of New Hampshire (USA) and a widely published specialist in nineteenth-century French theater and drama. In addition to her studies on and editions of Alexandre Dumas père, RenéCharles Guilbert de Pixerécourt and Alfred de Musset, she also devotes her attention to works by lesser-known French playwrights who have written about characters of African descent for the “Autrement Mêmes” collection at Éds. L’Harmattan, Paris. In collaboration with Roger Little, she has published an anthology titled Nouvelles antillaises du 19e siècle. She is preparing an edition of Vanderbuch’s Séliko for L’Harmattan. Anna Hinton is pursuing her Ph.D. in English at Southern Methodist University. Her publications include “You’ve already got what you need, sugar:” Southern and Maternal Identity in Toni Morrison Song of Solomon” in Toni Morrison and Mothers/Motherhood (2017). Nydia R. Jeffers has taught Spanish courses in US colleges and universities for 12 years. She earned her Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature with the dissertation entitled: “The Black Protagonist in 19th Century Latin American Antislavery Narratives” (2013). Her publications within Afro-Hispanic Literature include “Presencia negra en la poesía y cuentos de Rubén Darío” (2010), “Estrategias antirracistas en tres cuentos de Carlos Guillermo Wilson” (2010), y “Lo barroco y lo maravilloso en El reino de este mundo de Alejo Carpentier” (2015). Kwangsoon Kim is Associate Professor of English at Kongju National University, South Korea. He received his PhD in English literature from Purdue University, where he wrote his dissertation on Toni Morrison. He was a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at East Tennessee State University. His recent research focuses on African American literature and Southern literature. He is the recipient of the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant for four consecutive years from 2014 to 2017. His work has appeared in a number of academic journals, including CLA Journal, Journal of English Language and Literature, and Criticism and Theory. Donavan L. Ramon teaches African-American Literature in the Whitney Young Center for Global Leadership at Kentucky State University. A specialist in African-American Literature, he recently completed his book manuscript that applies psychoanalysis to racial passing narratives. He earned is B.A. in English at Hunter College (CUNY) and his Ph.D. in English at Rutgers University. Matthew Teutsch is an Instructor of English at Auburn University. His work has appeared in Literature of the Early American Republic, MELUS, Mississippi Quarterly, and Studies in the Literary Imagination. Currently, he is editing a collection of critical essays on the life and work of Frank Yerby. ...