Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Richmond B. Adams is an Instructor of English at Eastern Oklahoma State College in Wilburton. He is the author of Harold Frederic’s Social Drama and the Crisis of 1890s Evangelical Protestant Culture, Edwin Mellen, 2013 as well as articles on the place of evangelical Protestant discourse in American society after 1865. His research blends new as well as old historicism into an exploration of the multiple ways in which a form of reconciliation between North and South took place in the years between Appomattox and America’s entrance into World War I. At the core of such a development, however, was an almost conscious decision to ignore how conflicts over slavery and its expansion brought about the horrors of the Civil War in the first place.
Nicole A. Diederich is Professor of English and Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Findlay, where she teaches courses in nineteenth-century British literature, composition, and literary theory and criticism. Her research interests include the representation of women in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and British literature, writing center pedagogy and practice, and pedagogical issues in higher education. She has published articles on writing center issues, D. H. Lawrence, the Brontës, and Kate Chopin.
Leisa Kauffmann is Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. A colonialist with a concentration in sixteenth and seventeenth century Mexican histories of the pre-Hispanic past, she has previously published articles on the work of friar Toribio de Benavente (Motolinía), and Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl. Her research focuses on Nahua-Spanish cultural interaction and transculturation in colonial texts, and she is currently writing a book on the representation of rulership in Alva Ixtlilxochtil’s histories. [End Page 163]
Jodie Parys is an Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where she teaches courses in Spanish language, translation/interpretation, professional Spanish, and Latin American literature and civilization in the Department of Languages and Literatures. She is the author of Writing AIDS: (Re)Conceptualizing the Individual and Social Body in Spanish American Literature (Ohio State University Press, 2012), as well as numerous articles that expound upon her two main lines of scholarly inquiry: the intersection of disease and narrative in Latin American literature, centered specifically on the AIDS epidemic; and the use of service learning as a pedagogical tool in Spanish language classrooms.
Joya Uraizee is Associate Professor of English at Saint Louis University where she teaches postcolonial literature, African literature and film, and women’s literature. She is the author of two books: one is about postcolonial women writers and political fiction (Africa World Press, 2000), and the other analyzes representations of genocide in African and Asian fiction and film (Cambridge Scholars Press 2010). She has also published articles on Jean Rhys, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Djibril Diop Mambety and Terry George. She is currently writing a book on representations of child soldiers and teenage gangsters in African and Asian fiction and film.
Peter Wuteh Vakunta is Assistant Professor of French and Francophone studies at the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio of Monterey in California. His research interests include postcolonial studies, intercultural communication, translation, and second language acquistion. His scholarly articles have appeared in the following peer-reviewed journals: Translation Review 73 (2007), Tropos 34 (2008), Meta 53.4 (2009), Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 23.5 (2009), Chimères (2010), Journal of African Literature Association (2009 African Literature Association (2010), Miniatures 58 (2011), African Literature Today 29 (2011). He is author of Indigenization of Language in the African Francophone Novel: A New Literary Canon published by Peter Lang Publishing (2010). [End Page 164]
Marjorie Worthington is Associate Professor of English at Eastern Illinois University whose work focuses on contemporary American literature and experimental fiction. Her work has appeared in journals such as The Journal of Narrative Theory, Critique, Twentieth-Century Literature and Studies in the Novel. Currently, she is working on a project centering on self-reflexive elements in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction. [End Page 165]
