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Jill Anderson
Concentrations: 19th c. American Literature, Mexican Literature, Mexican-American Literature
Dissertation Title: "Re-reading the American Renaissance in Mexico City and in New England"

Emily Bloom
Concentrations: Irish Literature, British Modernism, Media Studies, Orality/Literacy and Sound Studies
Dissertation Title: "Air-Borne Bards: Anglo-Irish Writers and the BBC, 1931-1964"
Publications: Review of Anáil an Bhéil Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture edited by Nessa Cronin, Seán Crosson and John Eastlake. E3W Review of Books 10 (Spring 2010).
"'The Protestant Thing To Do': Anglo-Irish Performance in James Joyce's Dubliners and Samuel Beckett's All That Fall." Texas Studies in Language and Literature 51.1 (Spring 2009): 1-16.
Review of The Dandy in Irish and American Southern Fiction: Aristocratic Drag by Ellen Crowell. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 9 (Spring 2009).
Review of Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism by Margaret Ward. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 8 (Spring 2008).

Kirby Brown
Concentrations: American Indian and Chicano/a Literatures; Indigenous critical theory; nations, nationalism and sovereignty studies; genre studies
Dissertation Title: Stoking the Fire: Nationhood in Early Twentieth Century Cherokee Writing
Publications: “Indigenizing Genre, Demanifesting the West.” Oxford Handbook for Indigenous American Literatures. Ed. Daniel Heath Justice and James H. Cox. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
“Citizenship, Land & Law in John Milton Oskison's Black Jack Davy.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 23.4: (Winter 2012). Forthcoming.
Review of X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent by Scott Richard Lyons. E3W Review of Books 11 (Spring 2011): Forthcoming.
“'Since I was given a name by the kind Fathers I take more pride in myself': Historical Recovery, Colonial Mimicry, and Thoughts on Disappearing Indians in Elena Zamora O'Shea's El Mesquite.” Nakum Journal (December 2010). Forthcoming.
Review of Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture by Shari M. Huhndorf. E3W Review of Books 10 (Spring 2010): 7-8.
Review of Cherokee Thoughts: Honest and Uncensored by Robert J. Conley. Great Plains Quarterly 30.1 (Winter 2010): 69-70.
“Indigenous Communities, Indigenous Nations: Interrogating Contemporary Indigenous Intellectualisms.” In Sovereignty, Separatism, and Survivance: Ideological Encounters in the Literature of Native North America. Ed. Benjamin D. Carson. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press. 82-109.
Review of Before the Country: Native Renaissance, Canadian Mythology by Stephanie McKenzie. Studies in American Indian Literatures 21.1 (Spring 2009): 87-90.

Kassandra (Kassie) Clark
Concentrations: Southeast Asian Diaspora, Gender Studies, Young Adult Literature, Global Literatures in English, Literary Criticism
Publications: Review of Beyond Bollywood: The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film by Jigna Desai. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 10 (Spring 2010).
Review of History, the Human, and the World Between by R. Radhakrishnan. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 10 (Spring 2010).

Melanie Clouser
Concentrations: Literature (both written & oral), Literary Criticism & History; Gender
Dissertation Title: "The Art of Malhoun Poetry in Moroccan Culture"

Layne Craig
Concentrations: 20th c. Transatlantic Women's Literature
Dissertation Title: "Rhetoric of the Birth Control Movement in Women's Literature, 1915-1939"
Publications: “Theory and Praxis: The Feminist Solidarity Group at the University of Texas at Austin. Thirdspace: A Journal of Feminist Theory and Culture, Forthcoming. Co-authored with Erin Hurt.
“‘A Type of Her Race and His Own’: Celtic Sovereignty Goddess Tradition in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” James Joyce Quarterly, 45.1 (Fall 2008).
Review of Sharpened Edge: Women of Color, Resistance, and Writing, ed. Stephanie Athey, Ethnic and Third World Review of Books, April 2008.
Review of Reproductive Rights in a Global Context, by Laura Knudsen,Ethnic and Third World Review of Books, April 2007.

Jeremy Dean
Concentrations: Ethnic and Third World Studies, American Literature
Dissertation Title: "Multiplicities: The Infrastructure of Multiethnic Urban American Literature, 1899-1996"

Naminata Diabate
Concentrations: 20th c. African, African-American, and Afro-Hispanic Literature, Post-colonial Theories
Dissertation Title: "The Body in Resistance: Representations of Women's Use of Genital Power in West African Literatures and Films"
Publications: “Rene Maran’s Batouala and Africa: The Limits of the Alliance.” Oral and Written Expressions of African Cultures. Ed. Toyin Falola and Fallou Ngom. (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2009), 165-184.
Review of The Politics of the Female Body: Postcolonial Women Writers and the Third World by Ketu Katrak. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 9 (Spring 2009), 92-94.
“Cote d’Ivoire Pre-Independence Protest and Liberation,” “Cote d’Ivoire Post Independence Era Protest,” The International Encyclopedia of Protest and Revolution: 1500-Present Ed. Immanuel Ness. London: Blackwell, 2009.
Review of "The Bernth Lindfors Papers" at the HRC. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 8 (Spring 2008), 42-44.
“From RAL to Ira Aldridge: An Interview with Bernth Lindfors.” Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 8 (Spring 2008).
“African Women and Missionary Writings: Nineteenth-Century Boloki Women of the Congo in John H. Weeks’ Among Congo Cannibals (1913).” Intersections: Women’s and Gender Studies in Review across Disciplines (Fall 2007).
Review of Postcolonialisms, Eds. Gaura Desai and Supriya Nair. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 7 (Spring 2007).

Megan Eatman
Concentrations: Public Violence, Visual Media
Publications: Review of Paul W. Kahn's Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 9 (Spring 2009).
Archival Review of Américo Paredes Archive at Nettie Lee Benson Library. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 8 (Spring 2008).

Katherine L. Y. Evans
Concentrations: Native American Literature, late 19th-early 20th c. American Literature, performance
Dissertation Title: "Staged Encounters: Native American Performance between 1880 and 1920"

Lydia French
Concentrations: Contemporary Ethnic American Literature and Song
Dissertation Title: "Listening to American Literatures: Popular Music and National Identities in American Indian and Chicana/o Fiction"
Publications: Review of There Was a Woman: La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture by Domino Renee Perez. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 9 (Spring 2009).
Review of The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary by Ramón Saldívar. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 8 (Spring 2008).
Review of “The Migrant Border Ballads Project,” from The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books. 7 (Spring 2007).

Lauren Gantz
Concentrations: Anglophone and Hispanophone Caribbean Women's Writing, African American Literatures, Latin@ Literatures, Trauma Theory, Gender Studies
Dissertation Title: "Fragmented Maternities, Fragmented Archives: Constructions of Self in Caribbean Diaspora"
Publications: Review of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy by David Eng. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books. Forthcoming Spring 2011.
Review of The Chosen Place, the Timeless People by Paule Marshall. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 10 (Spring 2010).
Review of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 9 (Spring 2009).
Review of The Palm Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 8 (Spring 2008).
Review of Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America by Eric J. Sundquist. Philip Roth Studies 2.2 (2006): 166-68.

Jessica Goudeau
Concentrations: 20th C. Inter-American Literature, Brazilian Poetry
Dissertation Title: "Januaries in a Frame: Brazil in the Translations and Travel Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop"

Lisa Gulesserian
Concentrations: Anglophone Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Urban Theory, Food Studies
Publications: Review of Comparing Cities: The Middle East and South Asia edited by Kamran Asdar Ali and Martina Rieker. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 11 (Spring 2011).
Review of First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st Century by David Lida. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 10 (Spring 2010).
Review of Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors by Lizzie Collingham. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 9 (Spring 2009).

Molly O'Hagan Hardy
Concentrations: 18th c. Transatlantic Literature, Book History, Postcolonial Theory. Secondary interests include Irish Modernism and Gender Studies.
Dissertation Title:"Imperial Authorship and Eighteenth-Century Literary Production."
Publications: “Literary Pirates as Agents of Change.” Literary Artifact in Theory, Culture, or History. Forthcoming Winter 2011.
“Archival Triage: Maire Nic Shiubhlaigh’s Notebook at the Harry Ransom Center” in The New Centennial Review. Forthcoming Spring 2010.
“Race, Liberty, and the Transatlantic Imaginative.” Review of The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture by George Boulukos and Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640–1940 by Laura Doyle. Eighteenth-Century Studies 43.1 (Fall 2009): 120-122.
“Symbolic Power in Mary Robinson’s Presidency and Eavan Boland’s Poetry” in New Hibernia Review: A Quarterly Record of Irish Studies 12.3 (2008): 47-65.
“A Backward Glance and a Forward Gaze: Interview with Barbara Harlow” in Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 8 (Spring 2008): 73-76.
“Norman Mailer Takes on America” in The Mailer Review 1.1 (2007): 141-175. Co-authored with Cathy Henderson, Rich Oram, and Molly Schwartzburg.
Review of Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World by Phillip Gould. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 7 (Spring 2007): 22.
“Gendered Trauma in Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake” in Studies in European Cinema 3.3 (2006): 211-221.
Review of The Irish Art of Controversy by Lucy McDiarmid. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 6 (Spring 2006): 30.

Olga Herrera
Concentrations: 20th c. Ethnic American Literature
Dissertation Title:"City of Myth and Muscle: Race, Labor, and Space in Chicago's Mexican-American Literature"

Erin Hurt
Concentrations: 20th c. Ethnic American Literature, Women & Gender Studies
Publications:“Theory and Praxis: The Feminist Solidarity Group at the University of Texas at Austin.” Thirdspace: A Journal of Feminist Theory and Culture, Forthcoming. Co-authored with Layne Parish.
Review of Resistance Literature, by Barbara Harlow. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books. 8 (Spring 2008).
Review of The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality, by Elizabeth A. Povinelli. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books. 7 (Spring 2007).
Review of Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination, by Joanne Barker. Special issue of Studies in the Humanities 33.2 (December 2006).
Review of On Beauty, by Zadie Smith. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books. 6 (Spring 2006).

Brianna E. Hyslop
Concentrations: E3W, British Travel Literature, Imperialism and Orientalism
Publications: Review of The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam. Ethnic and Third World Review of Books 11 (Spring 2011): Forthcoming.

Daniel Kahozi
Concentrations: 21st C. African Literature and Films, Human Rights and Social Justice in Africa, Swahili Literature
Publications: Review of Early Soyinka by Bernth Lindfors. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 9 (Spring 2009).
Review of Africa's World War: Congo, The Rwandan Genocide, and The Making of a Continental Catastropheby Gerard Prunier. em>Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 10 (Spring 2010).

Kristine Kotecki
Concentrations: Ethnic and Third World Literatures, Southeastern European Literature and Film, Public Sphere, Trauma Theory, Genre
Publications: “Approximating the Hypertextual, Replicating the Metafictional: Textual and Socio-Political Authority in Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth.” Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy Tale Studies. Forthcoming, September 2010.
Review of Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond by Jennifer Wenzel. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 10 (Spring 2010).
'Introduction to Anticolonial Historiography Section." With Christopher Micklethwait. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 10 (Spring 2010).
Review of A History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 9 (Spring 2009).

Crystal Kurzen
Concentrations: 20th-century Ethnic American Literatures, Chicana/o Literature & Culture, and Autobiography/Life Narrative
Dissertation Title: “‘Choosing our own metaphors’: Genre and Method in Contemporary Chicana/o Life Narratives”
Publications: Review of Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas Mexican Literature Edited by Dagoberto Gilb. Texas Books in Review 27 (Spring 2007): 11-2.
Review of Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition by Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith. Ethnic and Third World Review of Books7 (Spring 2007): 47-9.
Review of Brides and Sinners in El Chuco by Christine Granados. Texas Books in Review 26 (Spring 2006): 13.
Review of Drive: The First Quartet, New Poems, 1980-2005 by Lorna Dee Cervantes. Southwestern
American Literature 31 (Spring 2006): 88-90.
Review of Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders by Alicia Gaspar de Alba. Ethnic and Third World Review of Books 6 (Spring 2006): 16-8.
Review of Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus by Carolina Maria de Jesus, David St. Clair (Translator), and Robert M. Levine (Afterword). Ethnic and Third World Review of Books 5 (Spring 2005): 33-5.

Jordan Lamfers
Concentrations: 20th c. African and Caribbean Literature, Women and Gender Studies, Human Rights

Noah Mass
Concentrations: Southern Literature, African-American Literature, and 20th c. American Literature; Ethnic and Third World Studies
Dissertation Title: "An Angle Of Vision: Richard Wright, Carson McCullers, and American Southern Regionalism"

Rachel Mazique
Concentrations: Ethnic and Third World Literatures, Women and Gender Studies, Deaf Literature

Sean McCarthy
Concentrations: Irish Studies, Technology Studies, Performance Studies, Cultural Studies
Publications: "Giving Sam a Second Life: Beckett's Plays in the age of convergent media" Texas Studies in Literature and Languages, (forthcoming, 2009).

Charlotte Nunes
Concentrations: British and Irish Modernism, Literature of Imperialism, Human Rights
Publications: “In the Name of National Security: Torture and Imperialist Ideology in Sheridan’s In the Name of the Father and Jordan’s Breakfast on Pluto.” Human Rights Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 4, November 2009
“‘Both Knowing and Not Knowing’: Trauma Narrative and Narrative Metaphor in D.M. Thomas’s The White Hotel,” Conference of College Teachers of English Studies, Spring 2009
Introduction to a Special Section on “Language and the State,” Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 9 (Spring 2009).
“Human Rights Discourse and Advocacy: an Interview with Professor Karen Engle”. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 9 (Spring 2009).
“‘Return to the Lonely Self’: Autonomy, Desire, and the Evolution of Identity in Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls Trilogy.” Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Forthcoming.

Sarah Orem
Concentrations:20th and 21st C. Women's Literature, Performance Studies.

Chris Ortiz y Prentice
Concentrations: 19th C. British Literature, Cultural Studies, and Digital Humanities
Publications: Review of Soft Borders: Rethinking Sovereignty and Democracy, by Julie Mostov. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books. 10 (Spring 2010).

Rachel Schneider
Concentration: 18th C. British
Dissertation Title: "Making Men in the Eighteenth-Century Fragment"
Publications: Review of The Social Network by David Fincher. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books. Forthcoming Spring 2011.
Review of Written on the Water: British Romanticism and the Maritime Empire of Culture by Samuel Baker. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 10 (Spring 2010).

Laura T. Smith
Concentrations: Poetry and Poetics, African American literature, LGBTQ Studies
Dissertation Title: “After Rupture: The Formalist Poetics of Akilah Oliver, Sharon Bridgforth, and Alice Notley"
Publications: “From Rupture to Remembering: Flesh Memory and the Embodied Experimentalism of Akilah Oliver.” Forthcoming in MELUS.
“Bridging the Gap: Emerging Scholars, Emerging Forms of Scholarship.” Co-Edited with Sylvia Gale, Kevin Bott, Viet Le, and Karen Smith. Special Issue of Reflections: Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy 7, 3 (Summer 2008).
Review of A Box of Longing With Fifty Drawers by Jen Benka. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 7 (Spring 2007): 56-57.

Connie Steel
Concentrations: E3W, 18th Century British
Publications: Review of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror by Mahmood Mamdani. Ethnic and Third World Review of Books 9 (Spring 2009).
Review of Burning Cartographies by Noni Benegas. Ethnic and Third World Review of Books, 8 (Spring 2008).

Bhavya Tiwari
Concentrations: South Asian and Latin American Parallels, Translation Studies, World Literature and Other Arts
Publications: "Following the American Dream in short stories of Julio Ramon Ribeyro and Neruda's play 'Splendor and Death of Joaquin Murieta.'" La Cultura Hispánica. Organ of Indo Latin American Association. Calcutta: 2008. 18-21.
Review of The Crowning of a Poet's Quest: Derek Walcott's "Tiepolo's Hound." by Paola Loreto. Postcolonial Text.

Andrew Uzendoski
Concentrations: 20th c. Ethnic American Literature

Alberto Varon
Concentration: American and Latino Literatures
Dissertation Title: "A Literary Genealogy of Mexican American Manhood, 1848-1959"
Publications:"The Interior Frontier Man: The Squatter and the Don, the Conquest of Manhood, and the Making of Mexican American Literature." Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, volume 7, edited by Gerald Poyo and Tomás Ybarra-Frausto. Houston, Arte Publico Press, 2009.
Review of Other South: Faulkner, Coloniality, and the Mariategui Tradition by Hosam Aboul-Ela." Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books, 9 (Spring 2009)."
"Ray Gonzalez," "Enrique Flores Magon," "Michael Nava." Encyclopedia of Latino Literature. Ed. Nicolás Kanellos. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.
Review of The Emergence of Mexican America: Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in U.S. Culture by John-Michael Rivera. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books 8 (Spring 2008).
Interview with Gretchen Murphy. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books, 7 (Spring 2007).
Review of Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire by Gretchen Murphy. Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books, 7 (Spring 2007).
"Jovita Gonzalez," "Rolando Hinojosa-Smith," "Cleofas Jaramillo," "Richard Rodriguez," "Helena Maria Viramontes." Hispanic American Biographies. Danbury, CT: Grolier, 2006.