Too Smart to Be Sentimental: Contemporary Irish American Women Writers

About the Contributors

About the Contributors SUSANA ARAÚJO teaches literature and film at the University of Sussex (UK), where she holds a FCT Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. She received her D.Phil. in American literature from the University of Sussex, UK, was awarded an M.A. with Distinction from University of Warwick, UK, and received a B.A. (First Class Honours) from Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, Portugal. She has written widely on Joyce Carol Oates, and her articles have been published in academic journals as well as edited collections. Araújo is currently considering publication offers for her book manuscript, Rewriting Literary Genre: Joyce Carol Oates. PATRICIA KEEFE DURSO received her Ph.D. in English from George Washington University. She has taught at George Washington University, Rutgers University at Newark, and Montclair State University. She currently teaches at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She has published essays on Mary Gordon, Alice Walker, and other women writers. Recent publications include a chapter on the impact of the Internet on U.S. multiethnic literature and the “canon” in Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates (SUNY Press, 2006). Current projects include the design and development of a Web site devoted to Irish American women writers. SALLY BARR EBEST is professor of English at the University of Missouri– St. Louis, where she teaches courses in Irish and Irish American women writers, feminist theory, and pedagogy for the English Department and the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies. Her publications include Changing the Way We Teach (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005) and Reconciling Catholicism and Feminism? (University of Notre Dame Press, 2003). 248 Ebest-13.Contrib rev 10/29/07 12:59 PM Page 248 PATRICIA GOTT teaches a variety of British and American literature courses, as well as composition and women’s studies courses, in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point. In addition to Mary McGarry Morris, her research interests include Jean Rhys, Daphne du Maurier, Jeannette Winterson, Stevie Smith, and Edna O’Brien. SUSANNA HOENESS-KRUPSAW is an associate professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville. She earned her doctorate at Southern Illinois University–Carbondale with a dissertation on the role of the family in the novels of E.L. Doctorow. She teaches contemporary American and Canadian literature and has recently published on Ann Petry, Joy Kogawa, and Amy Tan. BEATRICE JACOBSON is professor of English and director of the Women’s Studies Program at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. She earned her doctorate at the University of Iowa, where she wrote a dissertation on Emily Dickinson. Her M.A. is from Pennsylvania State University and her B.A. is from Seton Hall University. Her specializations in early American literature, women’s literature, and ethnic literature are complemented by her focus on global feminism, especially women in development and women’s literacy. She is a member of the board of directors of Centro de Estudios Interamericanos in Cuenca, Ecuador, where she teaches courses in Latin American women’s issues and Teaching English as a Foreign Language. A daughter of an Irish immigrant, KATHLEEN ANN KREMINS (neé Lahey) grew up in Newark, New Jersey. She teaches high school in New Jersey and is an adjunct professor at the College of St. Elizabeth. She has an M.F.A. in writing from Goddard College and recently completed her doctoral studies at Drew University. Her dissertation is entitled “An Ethics of Reading: The Broken Beauties of Toni Morrison, Nawal El Saadawai, and Arundhati Roy.” AMY LEE has a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Warwick, UK. Her research interests include the Chinese diaspora, female self-writing, contemporary fiction and culture, and narratives of marginal experiences. She has published on women’s diasporic writing, gender issues in contemporary fiction, witchery and witchcraft, and detective fiction. Currently she is an assistant professor in the Humanities Programme and the Department of English Language and Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University. About the Contributors | 249 Ebest-13.Contrib rev 10/29/07 12:59 PM Page 249 KATHLEEN HANLEY MCINERNEY is a faculty member of the Bilingual Education Program at Chicago State University as well as the Center for Interamerican Studies in Cuenca, Ecuador. Her research interests include applied linguistics in language education as well as diaspora/immigrant literature. Kathleen earned her Ph.D. in language, literacy, and culture at the University of Iowa. JOHN M. MENAGHAN received a...