Volume 1 • Number 1 • Fall 1997
Author Bios
Articles
Deborah Thompson received her Ph.D in English from Rice University in 1993. From 1993-7 she has served as an Assistant Professor of Drama at the University of Alberta in Canada. In the fall of 1997 she became an Assistant Professor at the School of Theatre at Florida State University. She is currently completing a book, entitled Racial makeUp, on black-white relations in American drama.
Reversing Blackface Minstrelsy, Improving Racial Identity: Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro
Mary M. Wiles is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at the University of Florida. Ms. Wiles received an M.A. in French and an M.A. in film studies from the University of Iowa and has also studied at Paris III, Sorbonne in France. She writes about the articulation of feminine desire in both literature and film. Her dissertation concerns French New Wave director Jacques Rivette, and she plans to return to Paris to pursue her research interests. Ms. Wiles is also a filmmaker and video artist. Her video "International Terminal #5," a short hallucinatory space of an international airport, won second prize in the juried competition at the James River Festival of the Moving Image.
Tim Libretti is an assistant professor in the English Department at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. He has published essays on U.S. proletarian literature, the intersection of racial and ethnic and working-class studies, the U.S. Marxist literary tradition, and various aspects of U.S. Third World or multi-ethnic literaries. He is currently finishing a book manuscript on U.S. Third World and proletarian literatures.
Ann Kennedy is a graduate student in the Rice University English Department. Her research interests include feminist theory, early twentieth century urban studies, gender and space/geography, class studies, and the Southern novel.
Inappropriate and Dazzling Sideshows: Interpellating Narratives in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood
Rosemary Weatherston is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Southern California, where she is completing a dissertation entitled, "Turning the Informant: Administrations and Negotiations of Difference in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture." She is coeditor of the anthology Queer Frontiers: Politics, Polemics, and Possibilities for the Millennium (forthcoming) which includes her interview with Cherríe Moraga, "Frontier Reservations: Art, Identity, and Politics in the Queer 90s."
When Sleeping Dictionaries Awaken: The Re/turn of the Native Woman Informant
Laurel Nesbitt is a lecturer at Colorado State University. She is currently researching the discourse on the Gullah dialect which took place in the 1920s and 1930s among white South Carolina writers who wrote about (and through) the dialect.
Jeffrey A. Weinstock is a graduate student in the Program in the Human Sciences and instructor of English at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is in the midst of a dissertation considering ghosts in American literature as symptoms of unresolved psychic trauma. He has published on Donna Haraway and Wallace Stevens, James Joyce, "infection paranoia," representations of aliens in science fiction, and will be guest editing the June 1998 edition of College Literature on "Cultural Violence."