Author Bios

Articles

Brian J.White is visiting assistant professor in the interdis- ciplinary Honors Program, Department of English, at the University of North Dakota. His current teaching interests are on the intersections of film, literature, political discourse, and empire. He wishes to thank Jennifer Bottinelli, Steve Almquist, Michael Beard, and the editors and review- ers of Post Identity for their comments on the various drafts of this essay.

Guerillas in the Mist: U.S. Counter- Terrorism, Neoimperialism, and the Images of the (Fluid) Other

Mark Mossman is an assistant professor of English at Western Illinois University. He has recently published articles on Mary Shelley and the body, W.B. Yeats and post- colonialism, and Elizabeth Gaskell's novel, Cranford. His current projects include work on both visible disability in the college classroom and life writing and the disabled subject.

The One-Legged Wonder and Other Names

Thomas Lavazzi is the author of numerous works of cultural criticism/theory, literary criticism, and poetry, appearing in such journals and anthologies as Travel Culture II (Popular Culture Press), Modernism and Photography (Greenwood Press), South Atlantic Review, The American Poetry Review, Journal of Research, Talisman, Sagetrieb, The Little Magazine, The Utah Foreign Language Review, Genre, Aurora: a Journal of Art History, Women in Performance, Postmodern Culture, and Performance Practice, and Papers. He has also published two books of poetry, Crossing Borders and Stirr)d Up Everywhere [collage poem/artist's book], and edits Estuary, a journal of art and literature.

The Monroe Project

 

The Monroe Project Companion Website
created by Ellen La Forge

Helen Burgess is a doctoral candidate at West Virginia University, where she studies feminist culture, technology and new media. She is co-author of Red Planet: Scientific and Cultural Encounters with Mars, the first academically- produced DVD-rom for the educational market. She is also one of the editors of Mariner10, a University of Pennsylvania Press series committed to producing quality educational resources using new technologies. Her grandmother, Ethel Mary Burgess, was a professional developer of x-ray plates in Britain in the 1960s and 70s.

Mapping Bodies, Mapping Subjects: Missing the Mind's Eye from the X-Ray to the Human

Jennifer Way has been an assistant professor of Art History at the School of Visual Arts, University of North Texas, since 1997, where she teaches undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in the history and theory of art since 1900. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin and her M.A. from Vanderbilt University. In addition to studying in Rome and Cambridge, England, Way spent her pre-graduate school career as assistant director of the Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and in the curatorial offices of the Detroit Institute of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

The House Whitfield Lovell Built: Materializing Ethnicity in Spaces of Art Display

Mark McCutcheon is a doctoral candidate in the Literary & Theatre Studies in English program at the University of Guelph, Ontario. He has published short fiction and poet- ry in literary journals like sub-Terrain and Writual. As a DJ with New York's Leisuresociety.com crew, McCutcheon won Rockstargamesupload.com's 2001 Online Media Award for streaming DJ Mix. He lives in Toronto.

She Skin Black as Water: The Movement of Liquid Imagery in Dionne Brand's In Another Place, Not Here

Cover artist Barbara E. Byron currently lives and works as an artist in J acksonville, Florida. She moved to Florida from Santa Barbara, California where she had worked and attended college. In June of 1993, Byron completed a B.A. in Philosophyand a B.A. in Art Studio from The University of California, Santa Barbara. In the Summer of 1998, she finished work in The Master of Fine Arts program at UC Santa Barbara and received her Master's degree. She started practicing as an artist at a young age in the small town of Edwardsville, Illinois, where she was born and raised. Byron's main body of work includes drawings, paintings and photographs. She is currently producing most of her work on the computer with the help of Assistive Technology hardware and software.