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AB - Kai Hang Cheang (kai.cheang@email.ucr.edu) is a PhD candidate in English at the University of California, Riverside. His research interests include transpacific culture and Asian American literature with a focus on genre and affect. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in Journal of American Studies, Pacific Coast Philology, Gender Forum, and Social Text Online. He is also a reviewer for the website Asian American Literature Fans. Margo Culley (culley@crocker.com) is professor of English emerita from the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she taught with Professor Skerrett for decades. She taught American studies and women’s studies with an emphasis on autobiographical literature. She is the author or editor of several books, including A Day at A Time: Diary Literature of American Women (Feminist P, 1985), Gendered Subjects: The Dynamics of Feminist Teaching with Catherine Portuges (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985), and the Norton Critical Edition of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, recently published in its third edition. In 1995, she was awarded the University’s Distinguished Teaching Award “in recognition of outstanding teaching accomplishments.” SallyAnn H. Ferguson (shfergus@ung.edu) is a two-time president of MELUS and author of the forthcoming book, Charles W. Chesnutt’s Literary Darwinism. Chris A. Eng (ceng02@syr.edu) is an assistant professor of English and the Emerson Faculty Fellow at Syracuse University, where he teaches courses in US ethnic literatures, American studies, diaspora, performance studies, and studies of gender and sexuality. He received his PhD in English from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is currently working on his book project, “States of Provisionality: Improvising Queer Extravagance in Asian American Camps.” His writings have appeared in Journal of Asian American Studies, Lateral, Theatre Journal, and Women & Performance. Christina Garcia Lopez (cglopez3@usfca.edu) is an assistant professor of literature in the English Department at the University of San Francisco, where she also directs the Chican@-Latin@ Studies Program. She received her PhD in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, with a portfolio in Mexican American Studies. Her forthcoming book with University of Arizona Press is titled, Calling the Soul Back: Embodied Spirituality in Chicanx Narrative. She also has publications in the Journal of Transnational American Studies and in the edited collection, (Re)Mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape: New Works and New Directions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). A Yęmisi Jimoh (jimoh@afroam.umass.edu) is a professor of African American studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her scholarship and teaching focus on African American literature and culture, and her scholarship in the field includes publishing scholarly articles and coediting scholarly collections on African American cultural and literary topics and figures such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, and African Americans responding to war and citizenship. She is the author of the monograph, Spiritual, Blues, and Jazz People in African American Fiction: Living in Paradox (U of Tennessee P, 2002). She also was a colleague of Joe Skerrett at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and in MELUS. Joe published her first substantial scholarly article and shared many fine meals with her at conferences and great food with her and others at holiday gatherings in his home. He also taught her how to cook cob corn in the microwave. Ava Landry (alisaac@umass.edu) is a graduate student in the Sociology Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She received a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Chemistry from the State University of New York at Geneseo. She is interested in race, ethnicity, and identity formation. John Wharton Lowe (jwlowe@uga.edu) is Barbara Methvin Professor of English and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Georgia. He is author or editor of nine books, including Calypso Magnolia: The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature (U of North Carolina P, 2016), which received the 2017 C. Hugh Holman Prize from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. He has two books in production: Approaches to Teaching Gaines’s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Other Works (coedited with Herman Beavers) and Summoning Our Saints: The Poetry and Prose of Brenda Marie Osbey. He is currently writing the authorized biography of Ernest J. Gaines. Trent Masiki (masiki@bu.edu) is a postdoctoral associate in the Kilachand Honors College at Boston University. His research and teaching interests include African American and Afro-Latino literature and culture from 1865 to the present. He is particularly interested in how the Afro-Latino presence in the United States shapes and challenges conventional notions of African American identity and literature from the New Negro Renaissance to the “post-soul” era. Leah Milne (MilneL@UIndy.edu) is an assistant professor of multicultural American literature at the University of Indianapolis. She teaches courses on American and postcolonial literature, young adult texts, and graphic novels. Her scholarly interests include contemporary multi-ethnic literature, authorship, and race and gender studies. Her current project is a comparative study examining metafiction and forms of self-care in contemporary ethnic American novels, focusing on texts written by Louise Erdrich, Percival Everett, Carmen Maria Machado, Jonathan Safran Foer, and more. She received her doctorate degree in American literature from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Mazen Naous is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research interests include Arab American literature, music and literature, postcolonial literature and theory, comparative literature, and translation theory. Angelo Rich Robinson (angelo.robinson@goucher.edu) earned his doctorate in English with a specialization in American studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he served as the assistant editor of MELUS from 1997 to 2001 under Joseph T. Skerrett. Robinson is an associate professor of English at Goucher College in Baltimore County, Maryland. He teaches courses in the English major, American Studies Program, and the Africana Studies minor. He has published on issues of race, gender, and sexuality, James Baldwin, and the neo-slave narrative in journals that include The Southern Literary Journal, CLA Journal, and The Southern Quarterly. Jacinta R. Saffold (jacintaSaffold.com) is a Mellon ACLS Public Fellow at the Association of American Colleges and Universities where she serves as the Associate Director for Diversity, Equity, and Student Success. She received her BA in African American Studies and Educational Studies from Emory University and her MA and PhD in African American Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her postdoctoral fellowship work focuses on building Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation campus centers with colleges and universities across the United States. She is currently working on her manuscript, Books and Beats: The Cultural Kinship of Street Lit and Hip Hop. Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (cathy.schlund-vials@uconn.edu) is professor of English and Asian/Asian American studies at the University of Connecticut. She is also the associate dean for humanities and diversity, equity, and inclusion in UConn’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. In addition to numerous articles, book chapters, edited collections, and coedited anthologies, she is the author of two monographs: Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing (Temple UP, 2011) and War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work (U of Minnesota P, 2012). Her current research is focused on disability, US militarization, video games, and graphic narrative. Schlund-Vials most recently served as the president of the Association for Asian American Studies (2016-18) and is a series editor for Temple University Press’s Asian American History & Culture initiative. Amritjit Singh is the Langston Hughes Professor of English and African American Studies at Ohio University. Past President of MELUS, USACLALS, and SALA, he received the MELUS Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 and the SALA Distinguished Achievement Award in Scholarship in January 2014. An internationally known scholar of American, South Asian, postcolonial, and migration studies, he has lectured or taught widely in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Singh’s books include The Novels of the Harlem Renaissance: Twelve Black Writers, 1923-1933 (Penn State UP, 1976, 1994); Memory, Narrative, and Identity: New Essays in American Ethnic Literatures (Northeastern UP, 1994); Conversations with Ralph Ellison (UP of Mississippi, 1995); Memory and Cultural Politics: New Approaches to American Ethnic Literatures (Northeastern UP, 1996); Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature (Northeastern UP, 2000); The Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman: A Harlem Renaissance Reader (Rutgers UP, 2003); Interviews with Edward W. Said (UP of Mississippi, 2004); The Circle of Illusion: Poems by Gurcharan Rampuri (Weavers P, 2011, 2015); and Revisiting India’s Partition: New Essays on Culture, Memory, and Politics (Lexington Books, 2016). In May 2017, Fairleigh Dickinson UP published a festschrift for him titled, Crossing Borders: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society in Honor of Amritjit Singh, edited by Tapan Basu and Tasneem Shahnaaz. Maya Socolovsky (msocolov@uncc.edu) is associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has published extensively on issues of memory, history, and identity in US Latina/o fiction and Jewish American literature. Her 2013 book, published by Rutgers University Press, is titled, Troubling Nationhood in U.S. Latina Literature: Explorations of Place and Belonging. Ron Welburn (rwelburn@english.umass.edu), a professor in the English Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, looks forward to retiring after twenty-seven years there teaching nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literatures, Native American literatures, American studies courses, and critical writing. In 1997, he coestablished the Native American Studies Program (Anthropology). His latest books are Hartford’s Ann Plato and the Native Borders of Identity (SUNY P, 2015) and a seventh collection of poems, Council Decisions: Selected Poems, Revised and Expanded Edition (Bowman Books, 2012). A current project is Native Americans in jazz and popular music. He is of Gingaskin Cherokee, Assateague, Lenape, and African American descent. © MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. 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TI - Contributors
JF - MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
DO - 10.1093/melus/mly056
DA - 2018-12-01
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