Contributors
- Contributors
Timothy K. August (augus071@umn.edu) is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. His dissertation examines how cuisine and colonialism shape debates about nationalism and citizenship in Vietnamese and Vietnamese American literature. His research interests include postcolonial literature and theory, Vietnamese American culture, film, food and eating, migration, and transnational studies. He is an assistant editor for the journal Cultural Critique and has work forthcoming in the Journal of Asian American Studies.
Tayseer Barakat (tayseer@p-ol.com) studied fine art at Helwan University, Alexandria. He has held solo exhibitions in Jerusalem, Ramallah, Amman, and Sâo Paulo. His group exhibitions include the Palestinian group show at the Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm (1993); Palestinian Spring, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (1997); Made in Palestine, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas (2003); and Three Stories, Umm Al-Fahem Gallery, Umm Al-Fahem (2008). Barakat describes his work “Resurrection” as “a mosaic of images” that explores the “Arab Spring” uprisings, Palestine’s history, and his personal struggle with living under the occupation. He states: “The chanting of the uprisings across Arab streets has recovered my shattered soul from the alleys of exile and my deep desire to return home.”
Mandolin Brassaw (brassawm@seattleu.edu) teaches at Seattle University, where she focuses on American literature of the twentieth century, especially poetry and prose by women authors and those revising sacred texts such as the Bible, the gnostic scriptures, and the Aztec and Mayan codices for anti-racist, anti-colonialist, and anti-patriarchal purposes.
Martha J. Cutter (martha.cutter@uconn.edu) is a 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 (University Press of Mississippi, 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 by the University of North Carolina Press. Her articles have appeared in American Literature, African American Literature, MELUS, Callaloo, Women’s Studies, Legacy, Criticism, Arizona Quarterly, and several essay collections. [End Page 242]
Carol Bunch Davis (davisc@tamug.edu) is an Assistant Professor of English at Texas A & M University, Galveston. She is currently working on a book-length study examining representations of blackness in six plays staged during the African American Freedom Struggle of the 1960s.
Melissa Dennihy (mdennihy@gmail.com) is a doctoral candidate in English and American Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and a Graduate Teaching Fellow at Medgar Evers College, CUNY. Her dissertation uses literature by contemporary multi-ethnic US writers to explore how language and literacy are employed by marginalized racial and ethnic groups as they confront and negotiate systems of power in bureaucratic, institutional, and social contexts.
Eric Earnhardt (ede13@case.edu) is a doctoral candidate and instructor in the English Department at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. His primary interests lie in the intersections of ecocriticism, critical race theory, and the religious turn in continental philosophy, especially as they relate to nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature. He has written and presented on the works of Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard, Robert Frost, Wallace Stegner, Allen Tate, Henry David Thoreau, and Jean Toomer.
Allison E. Fagan (faganae@jmu.edu) is an Assistant Professor of English at James Madison University, where she teaches contemporary ethnic American literatures. Her research addresses the intersection of book history and textual materialism with Chicana/o and Latina/o literature, particularly literature of or about the US-Mexico border.
Tanya González (tgonzale@ksu.edu) is an Associate Professor of English at Kansas State University, where she teaches courses in American literature, Latina/o studies, women’s studies, and cultural studies. Her research focuses on Latina/o literature and media studies. She has published essays on Cherríe Moraga and the Gothic, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Latina/o children’s literature, US Latina/o television, and Ugly Betty. She recently completed, with Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson, a co-authored book manuscript titled, The Word on Ugly Betty: Latina/o Cultural Politics on...
