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AMBER ABBAS is a PhD student in the Department of History at The University of Texas at Austin. Her own work focuses on Muslim communities in South Asia during and after the period of Partition.

SAHEED ADERINTO is a doctoral student in the Department of History at The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include gender and sexuality in Africa and African diaspora history.

KRITIKA AGARWAL is a second-year MA student with the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Kritika’s wide-ranging interests include South Asian diaspora studies, representations of issues on immigration and gender in mass media, and sexuality and women in religion, especially Islam.

EMMA ALPERT is a senior at The University of Texas where she is pursing degrees in humanities and photojournalism. Her interests include peace and conflict studies, social movement theory and international public policy.

TY ALYEA is a PhD student of the Department of English at The University of Texas at Austin. He studies nineteenth-century American literature.

SAMUEL BAKER teaches in the English Department at The University of Texas at Austin; his first book, Written on the Water: British Romanticism and the Maritime Empire of Culture, will be published by the University of Virginia Press in 2009.

KATE BENJAMIN was an undergraduate and graduate student in English at UT-Austin from the mid 1960s to the early 1970s. She has returned, after a career in the film industry, to again pursue graduate work.

EMILY BLOOM came to University of Texas in 2007 after completing her master’s degree at Boston College. She studies the intersections between modernism and empire with an emphasis on Ireland, settler colonialism and gender/sexuality.

Before pursuing a doctorate in Caribbean literature and nonfiction at Ohio University, RACHEL BURGESS taught at Boise State and Syracuse Universities. She currently resides in southeastern Ohio, where teaches, studies, and writes.

PATRICIA BURNS earned her master’s degree in English literature at The University of Texas at Austin where she is currently working toward her PhD.

MELANIE CLOUSER is a doctoral student in Arabic Studies. Her studies of Arabic language and literature have taken her to Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and several British and American cities. Her research interests include both oral and written literature in the Mediterranean, especially in the Maghrib and the Iberian Peninsula.

JAMES H. COX is an Assistant Professor of English at The University of Texas at Austin. His first book, Muting White Noise: Native American and European American Novel Traditions, was published in the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series edited by Gerald Vizenor for the University of Oklahoma Press. He has articles in AIQ, ATQ, and SAIL, and an article on Todd Downing’s book The Mexican Earth forthcoming in MELUS.

LAYNE PARISH CRAIG is a PhD candidate in English at UT-Austin. She studies the intersections of literature and reproductive politics in twentieth-century women's literature in America, Great Britain, and Ireland.

T. JACKIE CUEVAS, a Chicana writer and scholar originally from Corpus Christi, Tejas, is a PhD candidate in English at UT. Her academic interests include Mexican American literature, borderlands theory, ethnic humor, queer performance, and radical pedagogy. Her most recent publication is an introductory piece in the third edition of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera. She is also a co-founder of Evelyn Street Press and a member of the writers’ collective Macondo, founded by Sandra Cisneros.

JEREMY DEAN is a doctoral candidate in English at The University of Texas at Austin. His dissertation focuses on the intersections between urban sociology and ethnic American writing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

NAMINATA DIABATE, Fulbright Alumna from the Ivory Coast, is a PhD candidate in the Program in Comparative Literature at The University of Texas at Austin.

REBECCA ANNE D’ORSOGNA is a third year PhD student in the department of American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include: consumer culture, gender and sexuality studies and representations of ethnicity. Her current research is on the representation of India and Indianness in the United States.

Originally from North Carolina, MEGAN EATMAN is a first year student in the English graduate program at UT-Austin. She is interested in 20th century Mexican American literature, particularly issues of gender and migration.

JENNIFER ECKEL is a graduate student in American history at The University of Texas at Austin, concentrating on the history of reform in the late nineteenth century South. She holds a BA in Political Science and American Studies from Washington University in St. Louis.

TYLER FLEMING is a doctoral candidate in African history at The University of Texas at Austin and a Visiting Instructor in the history department at Florida International University (Miami, FL). His research focuses on South African popular culture, specifically jazz music and theatre during the 1950s and 1960s.

CHRISTINA GARCIA is a PhD student in the American Studies program at The University of Texas at Austin, as well as a student in the Mexican American Studies doctoral portfolio program. Her research interests include transnational studies, Mexican American studies, and rthnic American literature. She is currently conducting research in preparation for the dissertation.

LAUREN GANTZ is a PhD student in English at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include twentieth century American women’s literatures and American ethnic literatures.

AMARA GRAF is an Assistant Director at The Undergraduate Writing Center and a PhD candidate in the Department of English at The University of Texas at Austin. She is currently working on her dissertation titled “Literary Translations: Telenovelas in Contemporary Chicana/o Literature.”

KATHRYN HAMILTON is a fourth-year graduate student in the English department. Her academic interests include nineteenth-century American literature, transnational studies, and US foreign policy.

MOLLY O’HAGAN HARDY is a PhD student in the English Department at UT-Austin. Her work focuses on the figure of the pirate in the eighteenth-century transatlantic book trade.

BARBARA HARLOW is Professor of English at The University of Texas at Austin, with affiliations with the Program in Comparative Literature, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the South Asia Institute, and the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice.

OLGA HERRERA is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at The University of Texas at Austin. She is working on a dissertation about Chicago’s Mexican American writers, and is interested in critical race theory, urban studies, and representations of Latinos/as in film and television.

REBECCA HEWETT is a PhD candidate in the Performance as Public Practice Program at The University of Texas at Austin. She is currently teaching theatre history at Texas A&M University.

ANDREA HILKOVITZ is a doctoral candidate in the Program in Comparative Literature at The University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation, “Telling Otherwise: Re-Writing History, Gender, and Genre in the African Diaspora,” focuses on re-writing in African diasporic literatures.

NEVILLE HOAD is an associate professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, Globalization (Minnesota, 2007) and the co-editor (with Karen Martin and Graeme Reid) of Sex & Politics in South Africa: the Equality Clause / Gay & Lesbian Movement / the Anti-apartheid Struggle (Double Storey, 2005). He is currently working on a book project about the literary and cultural representations of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa.

TREVOR L. HOAG is assistant adjunct professor of philosophy at Austin Community College. His interests include the history of philosophy and rhetoric, especially ancient Greek and contemporary continental thought. He plans to begin his PhD in the fall of 2008.

BROOKE HUNTER is a fifth year graduate student in the English PhD program at The University of Texas, Austin. Her dissertation is on Chaucer, Boethius, and the Latin commentary tradition.

ERIN A. HURT is a PhD student in the English Department at The University of Texas at Austin. Her current research interests include reader response and public sphere theory, as well as women and gender studies, primarily in the area of Ethnic American literatures and popular culture.

LIZ JONES, a doctoral candidate at The University of Texas, is currently writing her dissertation entitled “The Role of the Poet: The Performance of Poetry in Contemporary America (1997-present).” She has taught poetry classes to elementary and university students.

LENA KHOR is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include contemporary World Anglophone Literature, transnational storytelling and human rights discourse.

SOMY KIM is a graduate student in the Comparative Literature department at The University of Texas at Austin. Her interests include modern Persian and Arabic narratives, genre theory and Cultural Studies. Currently her research focuses on the modern Persian novel and transnational theories of the novel as a genre.

PAMELA MANN is the Librarian for US Latino Studies and the Caribbean at the Benson Latin American Collection at The University of Texas at Austin. Her areas of interest include US Latino Studies and Women and Gender Studies. She is a member of the Association of College and Research Libraries and SALALM (Seminar for the Acquisition of Latin American Library Material).

LUIS A. MARENTES is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He got his PhD in Comparative Literature from The University of Texas at Austin in 1994 under the supervision of Barbara Harlow. He has published on José Vasconcelos, José Revueltas and the place of US Latina/os in Spanish programs.

NOAH MASS is an Assistant Instructor and PhD candidate at The University of Texas at Austin. His interests include 20th Century Southern and African-American Literature and Ethnic and Third World Studies.

LOUIS G. MENDOZA is an associate professor in the Department of Chicano Studies at the University of Minnesota. He received his PhD in English with a concentration in Ethnic and Third World Literatures from the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Historia: The Literary Making of Chicana and Chicano History, co-editor with S. Shankar of Crossing into America: The New Literature of Immigration, the editor of My Weapon is My Pen: raulrsalinas and the Jail Machine, Selected Prison Writings and co-editor with Toni Nelson Herrera of Telling Tongues: A Latin@ anthology on Language Experiences.

CHRISTOPHER MICKLETHWAIT is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at UT-Austin who writes on literary magazines from Mexico, Haiti, and Egypt. He divides his time between Austin, Mexico City, and Cairo, where this summer he will be a research fellow at the American Research Center in Egypt.

MARZIA MILAZZO received her master’s degree in English and Romance Philologies at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and she is currently a PhD student in Comparative Literature at The University of California, Santa Barbara. Apart from Chicana/o Literature her research interests include African American Literature, Hispanic American Literature, Brazilian Literature, music, film, and popular culture.

LANIE MILLAR is a graduate student in Comparative Literature at The University of Texas at Austin. She is developing concentrations in Caribbean and African literatures of the twentieth century, specializing in Spanish and Portuguese.

AMÉNA MOÏNFAR is a PhD candidate in the Program of Comparative Literature at The University of Texas at Austin. She works on narratives of education and miseducation by second-generation exile and immigrant writers.

JOSEPH MOSER is currently writing a dissertation on masculinity in Irish film.

GABRIELA REDWINE is a second-year master’s student in the Women’s and Gender Studies program and an archivist at the Harry Ransom Center.

REBECCA ROSSITER is a writer, teacher and musician living in Athens, Ohio. She is a recent graduate of Ohio University’s creative writing MA program and is currently working on a collection of poetry that attempts to explore her parents’ recent long-term service in Monrovia.

BRYAN RUSSELL is a PhD student in the Department of English at The University of Texas where he is studying American and Native American literature and culture. His areas of interest include Modernist literature as well as Cherokee history, literature, and language. As a journalist, he won a Texas Associated Press Managing Editors’ Award for a series of articles he wrote on local humanitarians' work with Quechuas in Peru.

ASHLEY SQUIRES is a third year graduate student in the English Department at The University of Texas at Austin. She completed her BA at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Virginia and her MA at UT-Austin. Her early prospectus work is on American literature and populist religious movements.

JOHANNA SELLMAN is a PhD student in the department of Comparative Literature at The University of Texas. She has an MA in Middle Eastern Studies and her interests include contemporary literature of the Arab world and Africa, testimonial writing, language ideology, and autobiography.

CONNIE STEEL is a graduate student of literature at The University of Texas at Austin. Her interests include themes of identity and control in narrative with a focus on gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity and trauma.

ANNA STEWART-KERR is a third-year graduate student in English at The University of Texas in Austin. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century American literature with an emphasis on textual studies.

OUSSEYNOU SY was born in Senegal, West Africa, where he earned his BA in English in Cheick Anta Diop University in spring, 2004. He entered the English PhD program at UT in the fall of 2005 and he is currently also pursuing a Masters in Public Policy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs.

ALBERTO VARON is a doctoral student in English at The University of Texas. He works on nineteenth and early twentieth century American and Mexican American literatures.

LYDIA WILMETH is a PhD student in the Department of English at The University of Texas at Austin. She recently completed an MA report on the role of song in Sandra Cisneros’s Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. Her research interests more broadly focus on the interaction between musicality/orality and textuality in 20th and 21st century American literatures.