Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/cww/article/1/1-2/210/475629 by guest on 29 September 2021 . Notes on Contributors . Meena Alexander is Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the . Graduate Centre, City University of New York, USA. She is a poet, memoirist and . critic. Her books include the volumes of poetry Illiterate Heart (2002) and Raw Silk . (2004), the memoir Fault Lines (2003), a book of poems and essays The Shock of Arrival: . Reflections on Postcolonial Experience (1996), and Women in Romanticism: Mary . Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley. Her new volume of poems Quickly . Changing River is forthcoming in 2008, and she is at work on a volume of essays on . poetry, migration and memory. www.poets.org/malex . Rachel Blau DuPlessis is Professor of English, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, . USA. She has developed reading practices for the feminist reception of modern and . contemporary poetry. Her long poem project has been collected in Torques: Drafts . 58-76 (2007) as well as in earlier Drafts (2004 and 2001). In 2006, she published Blue . Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work on gender and poetics, and reprinted The Pink . Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice. Her critical books include Writing Beyond the Ending: . Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers (1985) and Genders, Races, and . Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934 (2001). [email protected] . Brinda Bose is currently a Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New . Delhi, and teaches English at Hindu College, Delhi University, India. She researches in . postcolonial, gender and cultural studies. Her publications include Translating Desire . (2003), Amitav Ghosh: Critical Perspectives (2003), Gender and Censorship (2006), and . The Phobic and the Erotic: The Politics of Sexualities in Contemporary India (2007). She is . presently working on a manuscript on significations of the body in contemporary . 1:1/2 December 2007. doi:10.1093/cww/vpm022 . 210 Notes on Contributors . Indian cultural texts, as well as a project on urban sexualities in Indian cinema. [email protected] . Marina Camboni is Professor of American Literature and Director of the PhD . Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Macerata, Italy. Her fields of . research are modernism, experimental poetry, cultural semiotics, and feminist theory. She has translated and edited books including works by Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton, . and H.D. Her recent publications include H. D.’s Poetry: “the meanings that words hide” . (2003), Networking Women: Subjects, Places, Links Europe-America. For a Re-writing of . Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/cww/article/1/1-2/210/475629 by guest on 29 September 2021 . Cultural History 1890-1939 (2004), and H.D. La donna che divenne il suo nome (2007). Currently she is working on a book devoted to Bryher’s modernism and her role in . connecting Europe and America. Debra A. Castillo is Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies and Professor . of Comparative Literature at Cornell University, USA. Her research focuses . on contemporary narrative from the Spanish-speaking world, including the United . States, gender studies, and cultural theory. Her publications include Talking Back: . Strategies for a Latin American Feminist Literary Criticism (l992), Easy Women: Sex and . Gender in Modern Mexican Fiction (l998), and (cowritten with Mar´ıa Socorro Tabuenca . Cordoba)´ Border Women: Writing from La Frontera (2002). Her most recent book is . Re-dreaming America: Toward a Bilingual Understanding of American Literature. Currently . she is working on analyzing cultural appropriations of American Dream imagery in . Latin American film. Pin–chia Feng is Professor of English at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, . ROC, and President of Comparative Literature Association of ROC. Feng writes on . issues of gender, race, and cinematic representation in Asian American, African . American and Afro-Caribbean literatures. Her publications include The Female . Bildungsroman by Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston (1998) and En-Gendering . Chinese Americas: Reading Chinese American Women Writers (2001). She is also the . Chinese translator of Toni Morrison’s Love (2005). Currently she is working on South . Asian British women writers and filmmakers. Gabriele Griffin is Professor of Women’s Studies at York University, UK. Her . research centres on women’s contemporary cultural production, in particular . women’s theatre, and on Women’s Studies as a discipline. She is co-editor of the . journal Feminist Theory. She coordinates an EU-funded research project on ‘Integrated . Research Methods in the Social Sciences and Humanities’ (2004-7). Recent . publications include Doing Women’s Studies: Employment Opportunities, Personal Impacts . and Social Consequences (2005); Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights . (2003); Thinking Differently: A Reader in European Women’s Studies (co-edited with Rosi . Braidotti, 2002); and Who’s Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing (2002). Clare Hanson is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of . Southampton, UK. Her research interests lie in twentieth and twenty-first century . 1:1/2 December 2007 . 211 Notes on Contributors . women’s writing and in the relationship between medicine and culture. She has . published essays on feminist theory and on many individual writers including Angela . Carter, Esther Freud, Helen Fielding, Doris Lessing and Michele` Roberts. Her recent . publications include Hysterical Fictions (2000), a study of the woman’s novel in the . twentieth century, and A Cultural History of Pregnancy: Pregnancy, Medicine and Culture, . 1750-2000 (2004). She is currently working on a study of eugenics in post-war British . culture. Stephanie Harzewski is a Postdoctoral Fellow in English at the University of . Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/cww/article/1/1-2/210/475629 by guest on 29 September 2021 . Pennsylvania, USA. Her research interests include British and American . contemporary fiction. She was recently awarded a Romance Writers of America . Research Grant to pursue the publication of her book manuscript TheNewNovelof . Manners: Chick Lit and Postfeminist Sexual Politics. Her second project, The “Woman . Author” Function: Twentieth-Century Anglophone Prose Writers and Their Cultural . Formation, shifts its focus to a more canonical group of writers, exploring how certain . women authors have been appropriated to advance theoretical and national moments . and how authors themselves have constructed a persona for participation in media . culture. Margaret Homans is Professor of English and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality . Studies at Yale University, USA. Her books include Bearing the Word: Language and . Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing (1986) and Royal . Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture, 1837-1876 (1998). She has published . essays on feminist literary theory, on modernist women writers such as Woolf and . Amy Lowell, and on contemporary women writers such as Toni Morrison, Adrienne . Rich, and Barbara Kingsolver. She is working on a book about contemporary adoption . narratives of which this essay is a part. Nicky Marsh is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton, UK. She works on cultural politics in contemporary British and U.S. poetry and fiction and . is Director of Southampton University’s Centre for Contemporary Writing. Publications include Democracy in Contemporary Women’s Poetry (2007). She also has a . forthcoming book, Money, Speculation and Finance in Recent British Fiction (2008), which . explores the re-emergence of a speculative financial culture in Britain in the post-war . period. Stephen Morton is a lecturer in English at the University of Southampton, UK. He . is currently working on two book projects: Colonial States of Emergency in Literature . and Culture 1905-2005 and Subjectivity, Geopolitics and the Formation of a Canadian . Counterpublic. His publications include Salman Rushdie (forthcoming in 2007), Gayatri . Spivak: Ethics, Subalternity and the Critique of Postcolonial Reason (2006) and Gayatri . Chakravorty Spivak (2003), as well as articles in Public Culture, New Formations, Ariel, The . Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory and Interventions: An International Journal of . Postcolonial Studies. 1:1/2 December 2007 . 212 Notes on Contributors . Lynne Pearce is Professor of Literary Theory and Women’s Writing at Lancaster . University, UK. Her research interests include theories of reading and . meaning-production, the romance genre and regional / diasporic writing in the UK. Her publications include: Woman/Image/Text (1991); Reading Dialogics (2004); Feminism . and the Politics of Reading (1997); Devolving Identities (ed.) (2000); The Rhetorics of . Feminism (2004); and Romance Writing (Polity 2007). She is currently Director of the . AHRC-funded project ‘Moving Manchester’ which is looking at the ways in which the . experience of migration has informed writing from Greater Manchester from 1960 to . the present. (www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/movingmanchester). Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/cww/article/1/1-2/210/475629 by guest on 29 September 2021 . Liedeke Plate is Assistant Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at Radboud . University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Her research interests are concerned with . women’s rewriting, gender, cultural memory, and urban space. Recent publications . include a co-edited volume Stof en as. Elf september in kunst en populaire cultuur (Dust . and Ashes: September 11 in Art and Popular Culture, 2006), articles on poetry after . 9/11 and on the reception of Virginia Woolf, and the essay “Remembering the Future; . Or, Whatever Happened to Re-Vision” in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society . (2008). Currently, she is working on two projects: a co-edited volume on technologies . of memory in the arts and a monograph on contemporary women’s rewritings. 1:1/2 December 2007 . 213 Notes on Contributors.