Contributors

Saniye Cancı is a research assistant at the Department of American Culture and Literature, Başkent University. She is currently doing her MA at the same department.

Mary Louise Hill has returned to teach in the USA after teaching for four years in Başkent University's Department of American Culture and Literature. She currently holds a Visiting Assistant Lectureship position at Alcorn State University in Mississippi. She earned a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University and an MA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. Her dissertation dealt with feminism and radio drama, and she has continued to pursue research on gender and media. Academic publications include articles in TDR - The Drama Review and Theatre Journal

Sandy Feinstein is Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of the Honors Program at Penn State Berk-Lehigh Valley College. She has been the grateful beneficiary of a Fulbright Award to Syria and, ten years earlier, Denmark. She publishes on Medieval and Early Modern Literature, as well as on teaching literature and writing. As a creative writer, she published poetry and short fiction.

Stacilee Ford teaches in the Program in American Studies and the Department of History at the University of Hong Kong. Originally from the United States, she has lived and taught in Madrid and has been at HKU for over ten years. In addition to publishing articles on American Studies in a global context, she has written about the history of higher education in Hong Kong, women's and gender studies in Asia, and comparative approaches to the study of popular culture in the cross-cultural classroom. She is currently working on a study of American women in Hong Kong.

Russell Johnson's research focuses on the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century United States, specifically the impact of Civil War military service on soldiers and their families. In addition to a forthcoming monograph on the Civil War's impact on urban-industrial development in the United States, he is working on a project to study the experience of disability, aging, and widowhood in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century using Civil War pension records. Before joining the University of Otago history faculty, Dr. Johnson taught for five years at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey

Kuldip K. Kuwahara teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in postcolonial world literatures in English, contemporary multi-ethnic literature, and images of women in world literature. She is the author of Jane Austen at Play:Self-Consciousness, Beginnings, Endings. A scholar of cultural studies and a postcolonial critic, she is presently re-examining eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth-century British and world literature and culture.

Helena Maragou teaches American literature at the American College of Greece in Athens. Her research interests revolve around women authors in the context of culture. She is completing a project on Louisa May Alcott’s relation to the mid-19 th century literary marketplace.

Vernon Pedersen has taught at the American University of Bulgaria in Sofia since1994, where he has also been Dean of Faculty. He is the author of The Communist Party In Maryland 1919-57 (University of Illinois Press, 2000).

Laurence Raw currently teaches Film Studies and Drama in the Department of American Culture and Literature, Başkent University, Ankara.

Kenneth Rosen visited Ege University last winter and lectured on Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. His poetry is available in various internet sites, and his most recent collection, The Origins of Tragedy, with a section of poems drawn from his Eastern European experiences, is available from Amazon.com. He is Professor of English at the University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, in the northeast corner of New England. Besides poetry, his academic interests are modernism and critical theory. The Origins of Tragedy is his seventh collection of poems.

Aylin Yalçın has graduated from Ege University American Culture and Literature department in 2002. She is doing her MA in the same department and analyzing Turkish American relations in the Cold War period and the way they were reflected in the media.

Diana Yankova is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Modern and Applied Linguistics in the New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria.