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132 CLA JOURNAL CONTRIBUTORS William Cunningham is an English Lecturer at Clemson University who holds a Ph.D. with Honors in American Literature from the University of Kansas. Cunningham’s research interests lie at the intersection of place and race in Southern and African American Literature. He has published previous work in Mississippi Quarterly, Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, and the Southwestern American Literature Journal. Working inside and outside Higher Education, Cunningham has taught professionalization classes in three Maximum Security Prisons and seeks to integrate community development projects into his University coursework. Sharon Lynette Jones is Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at Wright State University. She is the author of Rereading the Harlem Renaissance: Race, Class, and Gender in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston,andDorothyWestandCriticalCompaniontoZoraNealeHurston:ALiterary Reference to Her Life and Work. Jones also served as editor of Critical Insights: Zora Neale Hurston and co-editor, with Rochelle Smith, of The Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Literature. She is also editor of the forthcoming Conversations with Angela Davis (under contract with University Press of Mississippi). Kwangsoon Kim is Associate Professor of English at Kongju National University, South Korea, who holds a Ph.D. in English from Purdue University. His primary area of research is contemporary African American fiction. Kim's work has appeared in several academic journals in South Korea and America. He served as Visiting Professor in the American Studies program at the College of William and Mary. TrentMasiki is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Boston University in the Kilachand Honors College. His teaching and research interests focus on African American and AfroLatino literature and culture, 1865 to present. His current book project, Afroethnic Renewal: Afro-Latino Memoirs and their African American Influences, examines how Afro-Latino writers use African American narrative strategies and cultural tropes to write themselves into U.S. literary and cultural history. As a Fulbright U.S. Scholar, Masiki taught expository writing and U.S. Literature in the English Department at the Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí in Panama. CLA JOURNAL 133 Contributors Agnieszka Tuszynska is Assistant Professor of English at Queensborough Community College-City University of New York where she teaches courses in African American Literature and writing. Her research focuses on African American literature of the Jim Crow era and the Harlem Renaissance as well as prison literature. Her work has previously appeared in MELUS journal and Dialogues in Social Justice: An Adult Educational Journal. Helena Woodard is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches courses in the early black Atlantic and African American literature. Her publications include African-British Writings in the EighteenthCentury : The Politics of Race and Reason, which (Greenwood Press, 1999), which won the 1999 Choice Book-of-the-Year Award and the 2000 College Language Association Creative Scholarship Award. Woodard is also the author of Slave Sites on Display: Reflecting Slavery’s Legacy Through Contemporary “Flash” Moments (Mississippi UP, 2019). ...

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