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  • Contributors

Jessica Wells Cantiello (jcantiello@gc.cuny.edu) is a PhD Candidate in English at the Graduate Center of City University of New York. She has taught at Hunter College, Queens College, The Cooper Union, and John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where she is now a Graduate Writing Fellow. Her research and teaching interests include autobiography theory, American ethnic literature, and women and gender studies. Her dissertation investigates American teacher memoirs written by K-12 teachers from 1839 to the present. Her work has been published in Prose Studies and Antípodas: Journal of Hispanic and Galician Studies, and an essay on Frances Harper's Iola Leroy is forthcoming in African American Review.

John Alba Cutler (john-cutler@northwestern.edu) is an Assistant Professor of English and Latina/o Studies at Northwestern University. He has published articles in American Literature and Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, and is currently completing a book manuscript examining how Chicana/o literature variously represents, enacts, and resists processes of assimilation.

Martha J. Cutter (martha.cutter@uconn.edu) is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut and the editor-in-chief of MELUS. Her first book, Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women's Writing, 1850-1930 (1999) won the Nancy Dasher Award from the College English Association for the best book of literary criticism published between 1999 and 2001. Her second book, Lost and Found in Translation, was published in 2005. Her articles have appeared in American Literature, African American Literature, MELUS, Callaloo, Women's Studies, Legacy, Criticism, and other journals, and she has contributed chapters to Passing and the Fictions of Identity (1996), Mixed Race Literature (2002), and Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt (2010). She is currently at work on a book about racial passing.

Ira Dworkin (idworkin@aucegypt.edu) is an Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. He is the editor of Daughter of the Revolution: The Major Nonfiction Works of Pauline E. Hopkins (2007) and coeditor (with Ferial Ghazoul) of The Other Americas, a special issue of Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (2011). A 2005-2006 Fulbright Professor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he is writing a book on the influence of the Congo on African American literary, visual, political, musical, and religious cultures since the late nineteenth century. [End Page 240]

Eileen Chia-Ching Fung (fung@usfca.edu) is an Associate Professor of English at the University of San Francisco. Her research interests include theories of race, gender, and sexuality in travel narratives in British Medieval studies and Asian American literature and films. She is currently editing "Teaching Food and Foodways in Asian American Literature and Popular Culture" for the online journal Asian American Literature: Discourses and Pedagogies, and is working on a manuscript about Asian American food memoirs.

James Kim (james.kim.ny@gmail.com) is an Assistant Professor at Fordham University, where he specializes in Asian American studies and eighteenth-century British literature and culture. His work has appeared in Camera Obscura, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, and Eighteenth-Century Fiction.

Patrick Lawrence (patrick.lawrence@uconn.edu) is a PhD Candidate in English at the University of Connecticut, focusing on American postmodernism and literary theory. His research has included work on the intergeneric tendencies operating between Shakespeare's tragedies and comedies, the semiotic functioning of deductive reasoning in the television show Law and Order, and the consequences of using deconstruction in analyses of Holocaust memoirs.

Nicole McDaniel (nicolemcdc@tamu.edu) is a Post-Doctoral Lecturer at Texas A&M University, where she specializes in life-writing studies and ethnic American literature. She is currently revising her dissertation, "Seriality in Contemporary American Memoir: 1957-2007," as a scholarly monograph. Her articles on memoir and American literature have appeared or are forthcoming in ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, Studies in Comics, and Global Media Journal.

Susan C. Méndez (mendezs2@scranton.edu) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Theatre and the Department of Latin American and Women's Studies at the University of Scranton. She teaches courses on women's studies and multi-ethnic...

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