CONTRIBUTORS
Elizabeth Bishop (bishop@aucegypt.edu) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the American University in Cairo, teaching courses in economic and political development as well as twentieth-century history. She examines issues of self-presentation and representation in her dissertation on Soviet aid to Egypt and its postcolonial contexts. She is currently working with issues raised by the experiences of Nubian development refugees from the Aswan High Dam. She is also editor of the soon-to-emerge American University in Cairo's Institute for Gender and Women's Studies newsletter.
John Brannigan (jgmbrannigan@ukonline.co.uk) is Research Fellow at the Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University of Belfast. He is the author of New Historicism and Cultural Materialism (1998) and Beyond the Angry Young Men: Literature and Culture in England, 1945-1965 (forthcoming, 2001). He is currently working on a study of the writings of Brendan Behan and a monograph survey of literature in England from 1945 to 1999.
Shelly Jarret Bromberg (bromberg@tstt.tt.net) is a Lecturer of Hispanic Literature and Culture and of Literary and Cultural Theory at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Her current work focuses on comparative studies of Caribbean experiences, expressions, and identities and how these unique characteristics of the region interact among and through the various cultural, linguistic and geographical boundaries. An early chapter of her present manuscript entitled "The New Story of the Caribbean: Quantum Mechanics and Postmodern Theory in Antonio Benitez Rojo's La isla que se repite" was published by the journal Ometeca. She also is serving as a contributing editor for the Encyclopedia of Science and Literature, forthcoming from Greenwood Press.
Cyril Dabydeen (el738@freenet.carleton.ca) is a widely published poet and fiction writer. His poetry has been published in journals including Canadian Literature, The Dalhousie Review, Event, Ariel, The Toronto Review, Journal of South Asian Literature, Chandrabhaga, Wasafiri, Kyk-over-al, and World Literature Today. His fiction has appeared in journals including The Canadian Forum, Canadian Author and Bookman (where it won the Okanagan Fiction Prize), Kunapipi, The Globe and Mail, and The Literary Review. Author of over ten books, his recent volumes include Berbice Crossing, Black Jesus and Other Stories, the edited poetry anthology Another Way to Dance, and Discussing Columbus. He was the Poet Laureate of Ottawa for the years 1984-87.
Samuel Durrant (durrant@ENGLISH.NOVELL.LEEDS.AC.UK) has recently been appointed Lecturer in English at Leeds University and has published articles in Contemporary Litearture and Studies in Psychoanalytic Theory. "Hosting History: Wilson Harris's Sacramental Narratives" is extracted from his Ph.D. thesis on postcolonial narrative and mourning, which he is currently turning into a book.
Inderpal Grewal (igrewal@sfsu.edu) is Professor and Chair of Women's Studies at San Francisco State University. Her many books and articles center on transnational feminist studies, emphasizing women in the Muslim and Arab worlds, immigrant and refugee women, and contemporary Asian women writers. Her most recent book is Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Travel. In 1994 she published (with Caren Kaplan) Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices.
Caren Kaplan (kaplan@socrates.berkeley.edu) is the Acting Chair of Women's Studies at the University of California -- Berkeley; she is also the Director of the Beatrice Bain Research Group on Women and Gender. Her many publications center on Transnational Feminist Critical Practices, Colonial Discourse Studies, and Feminist Theory. Her edited collection, Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State, was published in 1999. In 1996 she published Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement, and 1994 saw the publication (with Inderpal Grewal) of Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices.
Harald Leusmann (hleusmann@hotmail.com)is a doctoral student in English at Ball State University, Muncie IN. He is specializing in Caribbean Literature and Black British Writing. He earned his M.A. from the University of Münster in Germany.
Laura Moss (mossl@Ms.Umanitoba.CA) is an assistant professor at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. She teaches Canadian Literature, World Literature written in English, and Postcolonial Literature. She has recently edited a critical edition of Frances Brooke's novel, The History of Emily Montague, with Tecumseh Press, and is the author of articles on authors ranging from Chinua Achebe to Ian Wedde. She is on the editorial board of Ariel: A Review of International English Literature.
Shantini Pillai (spillai@pc.jaring.my) lectures on Literatures in English at the Faculty of Language Studies, National University of Malaysia. Her research interests include the representation of the Indian immigrant to Malaya in literature and historiography, subalternist discourses, diasporic theory, and literatures of the Indian diaspora. She is co-editor of a book on the cultural constructions of the Indian woman in literature, forthcoming at the end of 2000.
R. Radhakrishnan (rradhak@aol.com), Professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is the author of Diasporic Mediations: Between Home and Location (University of Minnesota, 1996) and Theory in an Uneven World (forthcoming, Blackwell). His articles and essays on postrtructuralism, postcoloniality, ethnicity, nationalism and the diaspora have appeared in a wide range of journals and collections of essays.
Charlene Regester (regester@email.unc.edu) is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill. She is also the co-editor of the Oscar Michaux Newsletter, published by Duke University.
Laura Severin (lrs@ncsu.edu) is an Associate Professor of English at North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC, where she also is currently director of Women's Studies. Author of Stevie Smith's Resistant Antics (Wisconsin 1997), her research interests include women's literature and twentieth-century British women's poetry.
Eriks Uskaslis (E. Uskalis@ulg.ac.be) lectures in English, American and postcolonial literatures in the Département de langues et littératures modernes at the University of Liège. In recent years he has published articles on postcolonial theory and literatures in Ariel, Critical Survey, and World Literatures Written in English. He is co-editor of a book on masculinity and literature, The Signs of Masculinity (Rodopi 1998).
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