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337 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Rachel Adams is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Associate Director of American Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination (2001), and she is working on a new book that seeks to reframe American Studies through the lens of the continent rather than the nation-state. Jesse Alemán is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Mexico, where he teaches nineteenth-century American and Chicano/a literatures. He is the editor of Loreta Janeta Velazquez’s The Woman in Battle (2003) and the co-editor, with Shelly Streeby, of Empire and the Literature of Sensation (2007). He is currently working on a book on the literature of the U.S.-Mexico War. Ralph Bauer is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland. He is the author of The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity (2003) and the editor of An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru. By Titu Cusi Yupanqui (2005) and (with Jose Antonia Mazzotti) Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas (forthcoming). Anna Brickhouse is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere (2004). Kandice Chuh is Associate Professor of English and an affiliate faculty member of the American Studies Department and the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique (2003) and an editor of Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora (2001). Deborah Cohn is Associate Professor of Spanish at Indiana University, Bloomington . She is the author of History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction (1999) and the co-editor, with Jon Smith, of Look Away!: The U.S. South in New World Studies (2004). She recently received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for work on a book entitled Creating the Boom’s Reputation: The Promotion of the Boom in and by the U.S. 338 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Claire F. Fox is Associate Professor of English and International Studies at the University of Iowa. She is the author of The Fence and the River: Culture and Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border (1999), and she is currently working on a book about hemispheric cultural policy during the Cold War period. Susan Gillman is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Dark Twins: Imposture and Identity in Mark Twain’s America (1989) and Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult (2003), and co-editor, with Alys Weinbaum, of “Next to the Color Line”: Gender and Sexuality in the Work of W. E. B. Du Bois (2007). She is working on a book tentatively titled Unfaithfully Yours: Adaptation Theory and Americas Studies. Jennifer Rae Greeson teaches American literature in the English department at Princeton University, where she holds the Class of 1936 Bicentennial Preceptorship . She is completing her first book, Our South: Domestic Geography and Global Imagination in United States Literature, from Independence to The Birth of a Nation. Kirsten Silva Gruesz teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century literatures of the Americas at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The author of Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing (2002), she is currently working on a book on ideologies of Spanish-language acquisition over the past three centuries, as well as a study of the Gulf of Mexico as an AngloLatino border space. Matthew Pratt Guterl is Director of American Studies and Associate Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of The Color of Race in America, 1900–1940 (2001) and A World without Slaves (forthcoming) and the co-editor, with James T. Campbell and Robert G. Lee, of Race, Nation, and Empire in American History (2007). Robert McKee Irwin is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Mexican Masculinities (2003) and Bandits, Captives, Heroines and Saints: Cultural Icons of Mexico’s Northwest Frontier (2007), and the coeditor of Hispanisms and Homosexualities (1998), The Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico, 1901 (2003), and Diccionario de estudios culturales latinoamericanos (forthcoming). Rodrigo Lazo is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of...