Contributors

Valerie Begley, Independent Scholar, received her Ph.D. in 2000 from Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on issues of race and gender representations from mid-20th century US popular culture.

Ahmet Beşe is an Assistant Professor in English Department at Atatürk University. He undertook work towards his Ph.D. in Royal Holloway and Bedford New College at University of London, American Culture and Literature Department at Ege University and English Language and Literature Department at Atatürk University. He supervises the American drama and cultural studies courses in the department where he currently teaches. Among his research interests are American drama, feminism and cultural studies.

Ann Bomberger is the Director of Writing and an Assistant Professor of English at Allegheny College. She has published articles on the politics of whiteness and the pedagogical uses of technology.

Anne Cirella-Urrita earned a D.E.A. degree in Anglo-American Studies from the Université Paul Valéry, France and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research on the use of absurdist techniques in American children’s theatre has been published in international journals such as Les cahiers Robinson, Examplaria,Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos (REDEN) and Bookbird. She also helped with the internationalization of Francophone literature for children with a translation on author Hergé for the CHLA Quarterly Journal. Dr. Cirella-Urrutia also published on African-American literature with the American National Association of African-American Studies (NAAAS). An Article on the use of children’s theatre techniques in the foreign language classroom is forthcoming in Dialogues et Cultures. A faculty at historically Black college Huston-Tillotson, Dr. Cirella-Urrutia currently develops a language program in French where she enjoys promoting culture throughout children’s theatre, literature and film from the Francophone World.

Samir Dayal, Associate Professor of English at Bentley College, Massachusetts, is the editor, with an introduction, of Julia Kristeva's Crisis of the European Subject, François Rachline's Don Juan's Wager, Lucien Gubbay's Jews under Islam, and Patricia Gherovici's The Puerto Rican Syndrome (forthcoming), among other books. He has contributed chapters to several edited collections and articles in journals including Amerasia Journal, Angelaki, Colby Quarterly, College English, Contemporary South Asia Review, Critical Asian Studies, Cultural Critique, Genders, The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, L'Infini, MELUS, Positions, Postmodern Culture, and Socialist Review. He has also published some short fiction. Currently he is writing a book about contemporary South Asian fiction and film and a book on !9th century Indian masculinity.

Ann Fey is Professor of English at State University of New York, Rockland Community College, where she teaches the course Literature and Film. Her postgraduate studies in international film include Fulbright Seminars in Pakistan and in Morocco.

Ibrahim A. Mumayiz is Associate Professor of English at the Department of English, The Hashemite University, Jordan. He received his Ph.D from Trinity College, University of Dublin, in 1987. His doctoral dissertation is a biographical study of Robert Southwell (1561–1595). He has published translations of classical Arabic literature, including a work of al–Isfahani, and the poetry of al–Mutanabbi and al–Ma’arri, and has recently translated the complete poetical works of Imru’ul Qays into English iambic verse. The History of the Persian Gulf is among his research interests.

Marwan M. Obeidat is Associate Professor of American literature at the Hashemite University, Jordan. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington, in 1985. He is a member of the Organization of American Historians and serves as International Co–Editor of the Journal of American History and Connections: American History and Culture in an International Perspective (USA).

Michael Opperman graduated from Hamburg University in 1982 with a Ph.D. on German radio drama. Since then he has published numerous articles on film, radio drama and the postmodern novel. Michael Oppermann taught at Hacettepe University between 1987 and 1995. Since 1997 he has been the director of Abendgymnasium Bautzen in Germany.

Seçil Saraçlı wrote her masters dissertation on The Poetics of the Beats and received her degree from the University of East Anglia, English and American Studies Department. Her Ph.D. dissertation title was A Social History of New York as Reflected in three Novels: The Age of Innocence, Manhattan Transfer, and Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ and she received her degree from Ege University, American Culture and Literature Department. The undergraduate courses she is currently teaching at Ege University are History of American Literature, Mythology, Aspects of American Culture III, American Popular Culture; and the graduate courses are Introduction to Cultural Studies, Advanced Cultural Studies and Studies in American Cultural History.

Ria Snellinx obtained an MA from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel with an analysis of the influence of works by J.D. Salinger on the early works of Heinrich Böll. She was awarded a PhD degree from the same university for a monograph on Lanford Wilson. She currently teaches English at the Faculty of Applied Economics of the LUC (Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Diepenbeek, Belgium). Her research interests are American Theatre, gender studies, language and gender, language and the media and cross-cultural influences on language.