Contributors
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Simone A. James Alexander is professor of English and immediate past chair of the Department of Africana Studies at Seton Hall University, where she teaches courses in African, African American, Caribbean, and Russian literature, and women writers. She is the author of Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women (U of Missouri P, 2001). She has authored articles and book chapters on Nawal el Saadawi, Grace Nichols, Audre Lorde, and Kamau Braithwaite, among several others, and her current book manuscript is titled “Migrating Bodies: Politics of Resistance, Survival, and Citizenship.”
Bruce Alford is a reviewer for First Draft, a publication of the Alabama Writers’ Forum. He has published creative nonfiction essays and poetry, including a book of poems, Terminal Switching (Elk River Review Press, 2007).
Makalani Bandele is a Louisville, Kentucky native. He is an ordained Baptist minister and pastored churches in North Carolina before becoming a writer, musician, and freelance instructor of literature and creative writing. A Cave Canem fellow and one of the Affrilachian Poets, he has won the Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize and a Literary LEO 1st Prize in Poetry. hellfightin’ (Willow Books, 2011) is his first full-length volume of poetry. His poems have been published in Mythium Literary Magazine, Tidal Basin Review, Pluck!: The Journal of Affrilachian Arts and Culture, Black Arts Quarterly, Platte Valley Review, and Sou’wester.
Charles Baraw has taught a wide range of courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature at Southern Connecticut State, Wesleyan, and Yale universities. He is currently working on a book called Reading Encounters, about the mutual relation of travel, reading, and literary form in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Wells Brown, and other American writers.
Jason Barr currently teaches English at Blue Ridge Community College in Virginia. He is continuing work on a critical manuscript about Truman Capote’s Southern literary heritage. In addition to writing regular book reviews for The Roanoke Times, he has been published in The Explicator, and has an article forthcoming in a collection focusing on the psychological phenomenon of complicated grief.
Stephanie Brown is an associate professor of English at Ohio State University. She is the author of The Postwar African American Novel: Protest and Discontent, 1945–1950 (UP of Mississippi, 2011) and the coeditor of Engaging Tradition, Making It New: Essays on Teaching Recent African American Literature (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008). Her current projecte is a cultural history of African Americans in Berlin.
Mark Chorna is an American writer based in Paris, and works around the world with humanitarian organizations such as Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders), CARE, and UNICEF. His stories, set in different parts of the world, work to penetrate cultural differences and foster human understanding.
Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins is an associate professor of English at Florida Atlantic University. Her forthcoming book, Crossing B(l)ack: Mixed Race Identity in Modern American Fiction and Culture (U of Tennessee P) examines representations of black/ white mixed race identity in literature and popular culture. Her articles have appeared in journals such as A frican A merican Review, the Journal of Popular Culture, Mississippi Quarterly, and the anthology Blackberries and Redbones: Critical Articulations of Black Hair/ Body Politics in Africana Communities. [End Page 553]
Joanne Lipson Freed is a visiting assistant professor at Ohio University, and will begin as an assistant professor of English at Oakland University in Fall 2012. Her work has appeared in Comparative Literature Studies and is forthcoming in ARIEL. Her current book project considers haunting as a recurrent theme in recent U. S. and postcolonial literature that reflects authors’ concerns with engaging diverse global readerships.
Eric Gardner is a professor of English at Saginaw Valley State University. His Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature (UP of Mississippi, 2009) won the Research Society for American Periodicals/EBSCOhost Book Prize, and was also named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. With the support of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, he will spend 2012–2013 drafting a study of the Christian Recorder during the Civil War era.
Andrew Hebard is an assistant professor of American literature at Miami University of Ohio. His book, The Poetics...
