Contributors
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Laura Callanan is an associate professor of English and director of graduate studies at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Her book, Deciphering Race: White Anxiety, Racial Conflict, and the Turn to Fiction in Mid-Victorian English Prose, was published by The Ohio State University Press in 2006. Her research interests are in gender studies, trauma studies, and narrative. She is currently writing a memoir about the deaths of her mother and brother titled Caught between Sky and Water.
María Célleri completed her BA from the State University of New York at Binghamton and received an MA in Hispanic languages and literature from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is currently working toward an MA in women's, gender and sexuality studies at The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on Latin American categorizations of gender, sex, sexuality, and race, particularly as they pertain to Ecuador. She is interested in tracing the development and formation of these categories and the development of identity-based movements in Ecuador (women's movements, indigenous movements, and GLBTQ movements) through the economic and political changes brought about by the region's new "leftist" governments.
Denise Delgado received a BA in women's studies and psychology from Arizona State University. She is currently a PhD student in The Ohio State University's Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department. Her work focuses on Latina/o studies, film studies, immigration, and the border. Denise previously published a coauthored article in Embodied Resistance: Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules (Vanderbilt University Press, 2011).
Jacqueline Doyle has published numerous scholarly articles on contemporary women's literature in journals and anthologies, including articles on [End Page 135] the Virgin Mary and feminist writing in Women's Studies, Frontiers: Journal of Women Studies, Hitting Critical Mass, and Things of the Spirit: Women Writers Constructing Spirituality, edited by Kristina K. Groover (University of Notre Dame Press, 2004). She has also published more than fifty personal essays and works of fiction, most recently in South Dakota Review, Front Porch Journal, Blood Orange Review, Rosebud, California Northern, William and Mary Review, Prick of the Spindle (where the Virgin of Guadalupe makes a surprise appearance), Rio Grande Review, and Women's Studies. She is a professor of English at California State University, East Bay.
Delia Fernández is a doctoral student in the history program at The Ohio State University. Her research interests are in the history of the modern United States, modern Latin American, and women. She is also interested in Latina/o- and women-led labor and social movements. Her current research centers on Latino migration to the Midwest and the historicization of the formation of Latino consciousness, especially the origins and limits of panethnic identity. Fernández received her BA in history from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, in 2010 and her MA in history from The Ohio State University in 2012.
Alessandra Galié has a background in social sciences applied to agricultural development with a focus on the Middle East. After obtaining an MA in the anthropology of development from the University of London, she worked for a few years in the nongovernmental organization sector in Europe and the Middle East and worked at the International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) on gender analysis and evaluation of empowerment in agricultural technology development. Currently, she is about to complete a PhD at Wageningen University, Netherlands, focused on issues of empowerment, seed governance, and participatory plant breeding in Syria in the framework of food security and gender equity. She also applies her commitment to sustainable rural development through her involvement in the small organic farm that belongs to her family in Italy.
Jill Hermann-Wilmarth is an associate professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Educational Studies at Western Michigan University. Her research interests include examining issues of identity inside and outside of classrooms using the lenses of literacy, social justice, and critical and deconstructive theories. [End Page 136]
Teri Holbrook is an assistant professor of literacy and language arts in the Department of Early Childhood Education at Georgia State University. Her research—including text creation, text analysis, and text...
