Contributors
- Contributors
Loretta Collins has received an MFA in poetry from the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa, where she is currently a Ph.D. candidate in 20th Century American and Caribbean Literatures. Her dissertation in progress examines the connections between performance poetry, sound technology, music, grass roots politics, post-empire national identities, and hybridity in the Caribbean and the United States.
Jennifer Cohen is a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in the English Department’s Language, Literacy, and Rhetoric program, with a concentration in Women’s Studies. She teaches first-year composition (critical thinking and writing, really), and is committed to learning and developing possibilities within pedagogy and community activism for effecting progressive social change. She also practices and is studying to be an instructor of Hatha Yoga.
Trudier Harris is Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Professor of American Literature in the English Department at Emory University. She has published articles and book reviews in journals such as Callaloo, Black American Literature Forum, Studies in American Fiction, and The Southern Humanities Review, and she has edited or co-edited eight volumes. Her four authored books include From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature, Exorcising Blackness: Historical and Literary Lynching and Burning Rituals, Black Women in the Fiction of James Baldwin, and, most recently, Fiction and Folklore: The Novels of Toni Morrison.
Joann P. Krieg, Associate Professor of English at Hofstra University, edited Walt Whitman Here and Now and has published numerous articles on Walt Whitman. She recently published Epidemics in the Modern World, and is currently working on a book-length study called “The Body of the Text.”
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, now in the Department of English at Trenton State College, N.J., previously taught courses in medicine and literature at Mills College. She has written articles on aids in literature, aspects of storytelling in clinical dialogue, malpractice in fiction, and humor in stories of illness. She is currently doing research for a book on Henry, William, and Alice James and psychosomatic illness. She has published books on houses in American fiction, Dwelling in the Text, and therapeutic dimensions of autobiography, A Healing Art.
Suzanne Poirier is Associate Professor of Literature and Medical Education at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago. Beside publishing numerous articles on literature and discourse in medicine, she is co-editor (with Timothy F. Murphy) of Writing aids: Gay Literature, Language, and Analysis and author of Chicago’s War on Syphilis 1937–1940: The Times, the “Trib,” and the Clap Doctor.
Hilda Raz is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska who has published two collections of poetry, What is Good and The Bone Dish. She is the editor of Prairie Schooner and has published essays, poems, and reviews in Kenyon Review, North American Review, American Book Review, Women’s Review of Books, and The Confidence Woman: Twenty-Six Women Writers at Work.
Jennifer Shaddock, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, teaches Victorian literature and cultural studies. She has published on Carlyle, Conrad, and J. S. Mill as well as editing a reprint of Helen and Olivia Rossetti’s fin-de-siècle novel, A Girl among the Anarchists. Her essay on Louise Erdrich and Leslie Silko recently appeared in Feminist Nightmares, Women at Odds: Feminism and the Problem of Sisterhood.
Barbara F. Sharf is Associate Professor of Health Communication and Medical Education in the Medical Humanities Program, Department of Medical Education, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has published on narrative approaches to physician-patient interaction and cross-cultural issues in health care settings in both the communication and medical education literatures. Currently, she is writing a book on the rhetoric of breast cancer.
Sheila Shaw is Professor of English at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, where she teaches eighteenth-century English literature, the English novel, and women’s literature. Her current research focuses on this question: were those women, whose deaths in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were attributed to spontaneous combustion, actually murdered?
Ann Folwell Stanford is an Assistant Professor at the School for New Learning at DePaul University, Chicago. She has published articles on...
