Contributors' Notes

Adoption & Culture Vol. 6, Issue 1 (2018) Copyright © 2018 by The Ohio State University Contributors’ Notes Karen Balcom is an associate professor of history and gender studies and feminist research at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. She is the author of The Traffic in Babies: Cross-Border Adoption and Baby-Selling between the United States and Canada, 1930–1972 (U of Toronto P, 2011). Her current book project is titled “The Back Door In: Private Immigration Laws and Narratives of Transnational Adoption to the United States, 1945–1961.” Emily N. Bartz is a doctoral candidate in English at Texas A&M University, writing her dissertation on adoption rhetoric. Laura Briggs is Professor and Chair of the Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has given talks across Europe, North America, and Latin America and published widely on transnational and transracial adoption and the relationship between race, sex, gender, and US imperialism. Her 2012 book Somebody’s Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption won the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians for best book on the history of US race relations. Cynthia Callahan is Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University at Mansfield. She is the author of Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature (U of Michigan P, 2010) and articles on race, adoption, and literature. In 2014 she coedited with Emily Hipchen Adoption & Culture 4, The Bibliographies Issue: Adoption Studies Research. Her current book project focuses on African American adoption in literature and culture after World War II. Lucy Curzon is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Alabama. She recently published Mass-Observation and Visual Culture: Depicting Everyday Lives in Britain (Routledge, 2017), which explores intersections between art, anthropology, and national identity and which, in January of 2018, won the Historians of British Artist Book Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period after 1800. One of her current research focuses is contemporary representations of LGBTQ+ families. 262   ADOPTION & CULTURE 6.1 Janet Mason Ellerby is Professor Emerita at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She has published a number of works of literary and cultural criticism , including Embroidering the Scarlet A: Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film (U of Michigan P, 2015) and Intimate Reading: The Contemporary Women’s Memoir (Syracuse UP, 2001). She is also the author of her own memoir, Following the Tambourine Man: A Birthmother’s Memoir (Syracuse UP, 2007). Marina Fedosik is a lecturer at Princeton University. Her publications on representations of kinship in American literature, film, and culture include “Genealogical Ambiguity and Racial Identity: Adoption and Passing in Kate Chopin’s ‘Desiree’s Baby’ and Jessie Redmon Fauset’s ‘The Sleeper Wakes’” in America and the Black Body: Identity Politics in Print and Visual Culture (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2009) and “Grafted Belongings: Identification in Autobiographical Narratives of African American Transracial Adoptees” in Reading African American Autobiography: Twenty-First-Century Contexts and Criticism (U of Wisconsin P, 2016). Macarena García-González has a PhD in social anthropology and cultural studies from University of Zurich. She is an associate researcher on cultural studies at the Center for Advanced Studies in Educational Justice at the Pontificia Universidad Católica. She is the author of Origin Narratives: The Stories We Tell Children about Immigration and International Adoption (Routledge, 2017). Emily Hipchen is the editor of Adoption & Culture and coeditor, with John McLeod, of the Ohio State University Press book series, Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture. She is an editor of a/b: Autobiography Studies as well as of Inhabiting La Patria: Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Works of Julia Alvarez (SUNY P, 2013) and of The Routledge Auto/Biography Studies Reader (2015) and was a guest editor of four special issues. She is also the author of a memoir, Coming Apart Together: Fragments from an Adoption (Literate Chigger, 2005). She is a professor at the University of West Georgia. Margaret Homans is Professor of English and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. She has published widely on feminist and...