The Oprah Phenomenon

Contributors

 Contributors Audrey M. dentith is assistant professor, Department of Administrative Leadership, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Her essays have appeared in Gender and Education, Democracy and Education, and the Journal of Vocational Education Research. She is currently working on a book on feminist leadership in education. dAMiAnA Gibbons is a Ph.D. candidate in curriculum and instruction (literacy studies) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. robertA F. hAMMett is associate dean for graduate programs, Faculty of Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is currently at work on a coedited book with the working title Boys and Girls and the Myths of Literacies and Learning (Canadian Scholars Press). JenniFer hArris is assistant professor of English at Mount Allison University , Sackville, New Brunswick. Her essays have appeared in African American Review, Canadian Review of American Studies, English Language Notes, Journal of American Culture, and elsewhere. She is managing editor of the Alphabet City book series, published by MIT Press. ellA howArd is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Boston University. She has written on second-wave feminism and the history of design. Her current research projects focus on the history of advertising, women’s media, and urban poverty. evA illouz is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Jerusalem.She has served as a visiting professor at a number of universities, including Princeton University, and is the author of three  Contributors books, among them Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery:An Essay on Popular Culture (Columbia University Press, 2003). nik John is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests include the globalization of culture and the role of technology in such processes. He is currently studying the spread of Internet technologies in Israel. MArJorie Jolles is assistant professor of women’s studies, California State University, Fullerton. Her work includes publications in Critical Matrix:The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender and Culture, American Philosophical Association’s Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, and FeministTeacher .Her current research is on the female body as a medium for the rhetoric of empowerment. The first woman sportswriter at the Chicago Tribune, lindA kAy is associate professor of journalism at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. Kay’s main research interest is pioneering female journalists in Canada and their oral histories. Last year, a division of Rowman & Littlefield published her memoir, The Reading List, which details the fateful meeting of a young journalist, a famous author, and a convicted murderer. denise MArtin is assistant professor in the Departments of Pan African Studies and Humanities at the University of Louisville. She teaches courses on African and African American religion and culture. Her research interests include traditional cosmology, culture, symbolism, and beliefs in societies of Africa and the diaspora. MAriA McGrAth received her Ph.D. from Lehigh University in 2005. She is an instructor in the social science department of Bucks County Community College. She has published in Eating in Eden: Food and American Utopias (University of Nebraska Press, 2006) and Business and Economic History On-Line. vAlerie PAlMer-MehtA is assistant professor of communications at Oakland University. Her publications can be found in such venues as Contributors  Text and Performance Quarterly, Journal of Popular Culture, Reading the Sopranos : HitTV on HBO, and Critical Readings:Violence and the Media. MAlin PereirA is associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she teaches a course on Oprah’s Book Club. She has published in African American Review, Contemporary Literature,Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, and Modern Fiction Studies. Her most recent book is Rita Dove’s Cosmopolitanism (University of Illinois Press, 2003). JenniFer richArdson is assistant professor of English at the University of Hawai’i–Hilo. She has presented papers about composition studies and rhetorical and cultural theory at the Western States Composition Conference, the National Conference of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, and the Conference on College Composition and Communication. sArAh robbins is professor of English at Kennesaw State University. She is the author of Managing Literacy, Mothering America (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004) and of The Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe and coeditor of Teachers’Writing Groups (Kennesaw State University Press, forthcoming). Sarah has won awards from the American Studies Association, CHOICE, the University System of Georgia, the Kennesaw State University Foundation, and the Georgia Humanities Council. tArshiA l. stAnley...